Labelling cake tins or cutlery you have loaned.

I’d scratch my initials on the base, did it years ago at school with a compass!

Oops.
Cutlery or similar I’d take a photo as it was lent.

I found one tin today with half the cake still in it. Someone had put it on the freezer at the Town Hall.

I put a sticky label on the tin with my name on. Usually it’s for a church do, if it’s not returned can usually be found in the church kitchen.

I’m afraid I certainly wouldn’t be lending anything like a freezer, I can’t get over the cheek of the woman, you are much more tolerant than I am!

SHARPIES come in all colours including metallic silver and gold so should work fine.

I could try Sharpies. Thanks FF
I reminded my friend today that she still had some cutlery. I felt a real stinge!
She said she knew but that somebody helped with the clearing up who didn't.

They weren't my best set anyway.

I would put my cakes in a quality street tub, but of course they are shrinking at a rate of knots, so will
Just put in tin foil next time.
& don’t lend your cutlery out!

Labels help the borrower, but the real problem is the lender's memory: by the time the tin is missed, nobody can say who had it. A few people I know keep a running note on the phone the moment something leaves the house, 'two 8 inch tins to the community café, 14 June', and delete the line when it comes back. It takes ten seconds and settles every 'did I ever get that back' argument. A notebook by the door does the same; an app that stores a dictated sentence and finds it again by name, XNeuronal for instance, means you can ask 'who has my tins' months later without scrolling; and a photo of the item in the note stops the 'it was never yours' reply. For the tins themselves, an engraving pen on the base survives the oven where marker does not.