About 40 years ago my DH "borrowed" a pair of fine pointed embroidery scissors that I had paid $20 for. He used them to cut speaker wire -- I almost killed him (it had taken almost a year to save up the money for them). He told me he would replace them, but by the time we could afford it I could not find anything even close. Needless to say it was the last time he "borrowed" any of my sewing things.