I have a 'good' pair of scissors that I use for cutting jar tags (cardstock) at the candle shop. I marked them plainly PAPER ONLY. So where did I find them last week? You guessed it...someone had been using them to cut wick - which has a thin zinc wire in the middle of it. Hope I hid them better on my desk this time. LOL! At least they weren't my fabric scissors...those stay in my studio.