My brother and I KNEW to NEVER touch Mom's good sewing scissors. Dad, not so much. He would use them to trim the end off of his cigar. And 1/2 way through he would use her knitting needles to re-poke a hole in those White Owl Invincibles - funny how I remember the exact name of those cigars - this was more than a couple of years ago!
My boys have been told, in very explicit, biologically correct terms what I will cut off if they EVER touch my sewing scissors - and my husband doesn't smoke cigars!