Here is just one example, which isn't enough for a real conclusion, but, I gave my granddaughter a nice pair of scissors and a basket of fabric to play with, and cautioned her about using the scissors on anything but the fabric. Fast forward a few months and we were going to play with her fabric and she couldn't find her scissors and found them in the craft basket. And, then they wouldn't cut the fabric anymore. So, that is our sample of one.

Having been a hairdresser for 35 years, I noted the purpose for every pair of scissors/shear in the house and still do.

I was raised this way as well , Back when we did a lot of cutting with scissors because we made a lot of our own cloths . people did not have rotatory cutters and you did not just run to Walmart and pick up a new pair lol. I have never had fancy scissors but still always guarded my fiskers lol. I still have my old scissors I so proudly got for home ec from the Murphys 5&10 store , I use those for paper .

This post also reminded me of my mom screaming " Do not ever touch the tension " I still cringe when I adjust the tension on my old Kenmore lol

Yes, I thought so, too and really didn't answer the question.

We use Fiskars for cutting everything with and my good Gingher's are guarded by me or my bird at all times!! No paper for my good scissors!!!

I am like you.. my kids know better than to touch my sewing scissors :) I have been keeping my sewing scissors separate for so long I don't remember if I experienced the paper dulling or if I am just going by how my mother handled her scissors :)

Oh yes! I have my sewing scissors, and then there's the every day scissors that cut everything else that needs to be cut.....paper, tape, plastic, thin wire, anything sticky, you name it. Those are some of the reasons nobody else touches my sewing scissors! :hunf:

Thou shall not cut paper with my good shears, so said my Great-grandmother, Grandmother, and Mother.... and the same goes for me. Dressmakers shears for fabric, hair shears for hair, paper scissors for paper and a junk pair for everything else.

I'd been borderline obsessed with keeping my scissors just for fabric. Then one day I was busy sewing away and didn't notice that my dad was stood in the doorway of my sewing room hacking away at some thick plastic with my special scissors! And I couldn't even get too mad at him because he was trying to fix something for me! When I told him they were my special scissors he said "I thought they were pretty good scissors!" I can officially confirm that thick plastic dulls scissors!

I use whatever pair of scissors is handy for whatever I want to cut. I have the same brands of scissors in the kitchen and desk drawers as in my sewing room. Quality scissors take a very long time to get dull cutting paper.

Good scissors use to be a one time purchase because they were hard to find in stores and expensive. Usually a household had one pair of good sewing scissors. Now quality scissors are inexpensive and easy to find. . Why not have good scissors for everyone to use.

As for Snopes, 20/20 did a expose on them. It is a man and woman who started it from their home, decides on their own if something is true or not by searching on the internet or just their opinion. They are wrong more then they are right.