Worst way you've seen your good sewing scissors mistreated?
06-02-2011, 09:20 PM
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OMG! What a great thread!
Pruning/ deadheading the roses.
Cutting the thick gauge wire of the extension cord.
Every kind of paper you can imagine.
I kept catching them in the act, and hollering at them because they wouldn't put the bad set away in the same place every time so when they went to find them, they couldn't! Can't count the number of times I went looking and couldn't find them. Finally they grew up and left the house (and I can find the scissors all the time now).
Pruning/ deadheading the roses.
Cutting the thick gauge wire of the extension cord.
Every kind of paper you can imagine.
I kept catching them in the act, and hollering at them because they wouldn't put the bad set away in the same place every time so when they went to find them, they couldn't! Can't count the number of times I went looking and couldn't find them. Finally they grew up and left the house (and I can find the scissors all the time now).
06-02-2011, 09:31 PM
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I caught my husband using my Fiskars to cut poop out of the dog's fur. I promptly placed them in the dog grooming bin and went out and bought the nicest pair of Fiskars complete with case as retailation.
06-03-2011, 12:49 AM
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Well, ladies, I feel your pain. I have promised gloom and doom, but found my aaplique sissors-the ones with the bill with a huge chink out of it, same with my Gingher Shears. I discovered my son didn't like the way his braces felt, and he would clip them--with you guessed it, my sissors. He used fingernail clippers, plyers etc. too, I have several small applique sissors and my daughter loves them--to cut the split ends off her hair! I bought her several pairs of sissors, which she never found when she wanted them, so I got her a pair of applique sissors. I've had better luck since she has been away at college.
06-03-2011, 12:26 PM
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I bought a pair of (expensive for me) Gingher applique scissors that I had for a long time, at least until I found DH outside cutting 'chicken wire' with them......... Aaaaaaarg!
(To be fair, after I explained his error, he bought me a new pair.) :D
(To be fair, after I explained his error, he bought me a new pair.) :D
06-03-2011, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by madamekelly
I bought a pair of (expensive for me) Gingher applique scissors that I had for a long time, at least until I found DH outside cutting 'chicken wire' with them......... Aaaaaaarg!
(To be fair, after I explained his error, he bought me a new pair.) :D
(To be fair, after I explained his error, he bought me a new pair.) :D
06-03-2011, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Lynn Luker
I made the mistake of taking them to church to help some ladies tie quilts. One of them (who I thought was really a quilter, and should have known better) used my scissors to pry up the tacks that held the fabric to the wooden quilting frames! I bit my tongue and quickly took them as soon as she laid them down. Why don't others 'get it'??
06-03-2011, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by madamekelly
Originally Posted by Lynn Luker
I made the mistake of taking them to church to help some ladies tie quilts. One of them (who I thought was really a quilter, and should have known better) used my scissors to pry up the tacks that held the fabric to the wooden quilting frames! I bit my tongue and quickly took them as soon as she laid them down. Why don't others 'get it'??
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