I got so tired of the mess of thread snips and those pesky pin's getting into a game of hide-n-seek in the carpet with me-I usually find them in my feet- Any ways I bought those plastic floor mats for the desk chair and put 2 at the cutting table and 1 under the sewing cabinet. Now a magnet on a stick gets the pins and a hand vac gets the threads-5 minutes and the floor is safe to walk on and no snippets on my bindings.