Very clever idea!!!! That's why I have a basket of scissors next to my sewing machine, on my ironing board, and on my cutting table. When the baskets are empty I start gathering them up again. Same with seam rippers. I don't waste time when sewing looking for scissors, I grab another pair. How they get lost being in one place I will never understand. The dark handle small snip $1.47 cent scissors at Walmart are excellent for thread snipping and if they get lost for good, who cares.