For me, no spoon. It was a leather belt, needed often enough that it was left hanging, readily available, over my bedroom door knob.
One day, the belt wasn't on the door knob when my younger brother and I got in trouble with our mother for something.
Don't ask, I don't remember what we got in trouble for.
Our father wasn't there, he must have been wearing the belt that day. So, our mother sent my brother and me into her bedroom to fetch a belt and come back for our spanking. Jim, my brother, and I went to find the two biggest belts our father had in his closet and the smallest, lightest pink cloth belt our mother owned.
We each grabbed a pillow off our parents' bed and used the huge leather belts to strap them to our tiny little tushies, then carried the little pink belt out to our angry mother. We handed her, her little belt and immediately spun around and bent over, presenting our piqued parent with a pair of pillow protected posteriors.
Our mother laughed so hard she couldn't even lift that little belt to hit us with it.
-Will