Originally Posted by sewobsessed1
When my little ones were, well, little, they were into jewelry making. They used my Ginghers to cut wire! :(
I confess to having done that to a pair of scissors, back in the early days! Long before I got serious about sewing, and then when I did, I got serious about how I treat my scissors.
The worst abuse I've seen? It's got to be when they were used as a screwdriver or pry bar- you guess it, one of the blades is now permanently bent.