Worst way you've seen your good sewing scissors mistreated?
06-02-2011, 03:36 AM
#91
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Originally Posted by Flying_V_Goddess
Yesterday I found my mom cutting the tops off of Icee popsicles with MY good sewing scissors. Couldn't find the other 800 scissors in the house so she goes into my room and takes mine!
Certainly nowhere near as bad as the time when I found my ex's step dad using them to cut off the callouses off his feet (I threw that pair away!). But still!
I'm positive I'm not the only one who has caught someone else using the good sewing scissors for anything other than sewing. What's the worst way you've seen your good scissors being
mistreated or are there people in your house who can't get it in their head that those are meant for your quilting/sewing projects and nothing else?
Certainly nowhere near as bad as the time when I found my ex's step dad using them to cut off the callouses off his feet (I threw that pair away!). But still!
I'm positive I'm not the only one who has caught someone else using the good sewing scissors for anything other than sewing. What's the worst way you've seen your good scissors being
mistreated or are there people in your house who can't get it in their head that those are meant for your quilting/sewing projects and nothing else?
Yes, when I caught my DH cutting window screen with them. OH, MY----how the fur did fly.
06-02-2011, 03:42 AM
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I was dismayed one day to walk in to my kitchen and find my son cutting up raw chicken with my good scissors. Needless t say, they went in the trash after that. So I went out and purchased a new pair of Fiskars. Two months later, my left-handed daughter was cutting wrapping paper with them. She ended up taking them home with her since they worked better than any other scissors she's tried. I have since bought yet another pair and put the fear of God into my children! By the way, my children were in their early 30's at the time!! I didn't start quilting until they were either in college or out on their own.
06-02-2011, 04:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Flying_V_Goddess
Yesterday I found my mom cutting the tops off of Icee popsicles with MY good sewing scissors. Couldn't find the other 800 scissors in the house so she goes into my room and takes mine!
I don't even have a big pair of scissors anymore - my good ones got bent so long ago I don't even remember how, and hubby kept saying he would fix em.
Maybe locking them up isn't such a bad idea
06-02-2011, 04:10 AM
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Those who have cattle maybe know what I'm talking about. He said he would tell me what it was all used for but I knew he trimmed hair and removed cocabers with it.
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Cocabers.....is that the same as Mountain Oysters?
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Cocabers.....is that the same as Mountain Oysters?
06-02-2011, 04:17 AM
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I found my good Gingher's in my husband hobby room. He works on pocket watches. He had used them for heaven knows what. That year for Christmas, I go thim a pair. When he opened them, he said, "these are too good for me." I went over and snatched them from his hand and told him, that he was right and they were the replacements for the ones he ruined.
He no longer takes me scissors.
He no longer takes me scissors.
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