I keep my good Ginghers beside me at all times. My DH has mentioned I should put them "away" many times, but every pair I've done that with disappears shortly thereafter never to be found again. Not happening with these!! A pair of good pinking shears was the last to disappear like that. He took them while I was on the phone & swears he didn't! My mother had given them to me 35 yrs ago & I'd kept them nice right up to last year when he "put them away"!