on sharpening scissors...
 

I inherited several pair of scissors when my sister passed away. They are good brands but they are dull and don't cut well.
I thought there had been a thread here on the board about this, but my searches yielded no results. Are scissors even worth sharpening now days? Is it expensive to have done, or hard to do oneself?
I would love to use her scissors in her memory, but if they can't be productive tools, I really don't have room to just store them.

If they can't be salvaged, I would just keep one pair in her memory and discard the others. There are 5 pair all together.

Call your LQS and ask them if they have someone they send scissors to be sharpened out to. I know our Viking dealer here in town sends them out to be sharpened. But the little LQS doesn’t. It’s pretty small and just changed hands.

Look for businesses that sharpen knives. Most of them will also do scissors.

Gingher offers a repair service for Gingher scissors

http://www.gingher.us/Gingher_Maintenance.html

JoAnn's fabrics and other stores used to have someone come in and do them there or pick them up. I"m sure other places could be of help too.

Our local farmers market (Saturday market) has a vendor that sharpens knives and scissors, might be worth checking out in your area.

I’ve read cutting fine sand paper will sharpen scissors, but I’ve never tried it.

Our sewing machine repair shop sharpens scissors. The last time I had my Gingher shears sharpened it was around $5 (several years ago). Well worth it if you want to use them.

Don't let your husband do it. DH worked on my Ginghers and they have never been the same. Yikes!

When I worked at JoAnns---we sold a Fiskar scissor sharpener---and that's what we used. We used to have someone come in periodically---but they stopped that.