Overheard at Joanne's
02-12-2012, 05:56 PM
#132
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This has been a fun and interesting post to read. When I bought my Ginghers, I announced to my DH and kids that particular pair of scissors was MINE and for use on fabric only! I'm still using that same pair...had no problems with anyone using for anything but fabric. Like the rest of you, I do keep extra scissors around for miscellaneous use.
02-12-2012, 06:14 PM
#133
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We have a rule at my house - you touch my scissors and I go buy a new pair. DH didn't think that was a big deal until I told him how much a new pair would cost. I bought him a whole bunch of cheap scissors and put them all over the house in various drawers, so now he uses them.
On a side note - a friend of mine got tired of her husband using her good scissors so she bought a bunch of suitcase padlocks. She puts the padlock on the handles so he can't open them to cut anything and the key is on a chain around her neck. Pretty clever idea.
On a side note - a friend of mine got tired of her husband using her good scissors so she bought a bunch of suitcase padlocks. She puts the padlock on the handles so he can't open them to cut anything and the key is on a chain around her neck. Pretty clever idea.
02-12-2012, 09:05 PM
#134
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I tried that trick at my house....putting cheap scissors EVERYWHERE and hiding my good ones away in drawers under things and I STILL come home to find my good shears in various places in the house and not a soul seems to know how they got there....my scissor poltergists are 32 and 54 - funnny how I know that
05-01-2012, 12:47 PM
#136
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I raised 2 sons. My boys knew better than to touch anything near my sewing machine. My husband continued to use my scissors even after I re-bought a couple of pair. So, I got a little metal tackle box and a little lock and put my set of good fiskars and my embroidery snips in it and my key was on my key ring. In my purse. In my bedroom. God herself would NOT go into my purse without permission!
It took months of him being frustrated (and cussing) before he finally figured out how to get a pair of his own scissors to use.
Did I say "ex"? I meant to say "Ex"! lol
There are men out there who are trainable. MY new husband's mother was a fashion desinger so he grew up in a house filled with models trying on clothes and patterns,scissors adn pins scattered everywhere, and bolts of fabric piled to the rafters in the dining room, so my little piddly sewing spot is sacred.
It took months of him being frustrated (and cussing) before he finally figured out how to get a pair of his own scissors to use.
Did I say "ex"? I meant to say "Ex"! lol
There are men out there who are trainable. MY new husband's mother was a fashion desinger so he grew up in a house filled with models trying on clothes and patterns,scissors adn pins scattered everywhere, and bolts of fabric piled to the rafters in the dining room, so my little piddly sewing spot is sacred.
05-01-2012, 01:33 PM
#137
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Location: southern Oklahoma
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Don't have trouble with the scissors, but he won't leave my knives alone! Several have the end off where he decided he was the knife-throwing champion! I find my steak knives in his pickups...uses them to cut baling twine. Once he "borrowed" one to do castration on the calves...He had to buy a new one that time!
05-01-2012, 05:09 PM
#139
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This cracked me up. I can imagine you digging in your purse at the checkout stand and pulling out your scissors and having the store employee later telling everyone about the lady who had a pair of scissors in her purse. Ha ha ha...
05-01-2012, 05:28 PM
#140
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Even if he did find a same brand name pair, she might know. They all have a different feel to them when one cuts with them. When I used to get together with girlfriends for a sewing day, we all had the same type of scissors but I could tell by feel which one was mine.
Does anyone else feel the same way or am I strange?
Does anyone else feel the same way or am I strange?
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