Where do the kitchen scissors go?

[BlackAmericanoNoSugar]

I try to always have a lot of pairs of kitchen scissors. The reason is that I am a quilter so I have special scissors that are for fabric only. They are generally sitting out in the open on my sewing machine. The family know that it's certain misery and possible death to touch my fabric scissors, but if they can't find a pair in the kitchen they will 'just quickly' use whatever they can find (as though the speed of using my fabric scissors means they won't ruin them ).

Anyway, I noticed that we were down to the last two pairs of kitchen scissors, so I ordered some more. Because I've been having some pain in my right hand I splashed out and ordered two pairs of soft-touch Oxo Good Grips scissors. They arrived yesterday afternoon, by yesterday evening I only had one pair of Oxo scissors in the kitchen. Which is a record even in my house.

Also cutlery, where does it go? I suspect that having teenagers is the answer to all of my whys, but they maintain it's nothing to do with them.

They go to the Planet of The Lost Socks. The washing machine is the portal.

In the bathroom, tangled up in excess lightpull cord. On the coffee table. Under a giant stack of clothes in a bedroom. In the car. Lurking at the bottom of the washing-up. In the wrong drawer. Sitting on an upturned plant pot in the back garden. In the knife block. Under the sofa.

Just a small sampling of the places ours have ended up over the past, oh, week month or two.

At least two of my pairs are the kind that separate into two halves when you open them all the way, so I count it a good day when I find a whole pair rather than a lone scissor.

I don't even have kids 😒

Scissors will be in the bag with the Christmas wrapping paper (I found 2 pairs in mine). Lost cutlery will be down the side of a teen’s bed or in the bin - been there so many times unfortunately.

Oh, and the ones that separate into two halves (which now I think about it, I have three pairs of), they might look identical, but will they countenance the possibility of a little knifewife-swapping? They will not.

I expect you're right about things being down the side of the teens' beds. I really, really don't want to check down there though. I'm just not brave enough.

Teaspoons! I'm doing ok at the moment (my son's not with us - hmmmm), but goodness I had to buy a spare pack of six regularly.
My daughter did a big bedroom clean up today and our mug population suddenly doubled!

Metal magnetic strips on the kitchen wall. One for knives, one for scissors. All scissors are bright red so can't be accidentally left on beds etc. Doesn't always work, still some shouting required 😑

I find a good number of our kitchen scissors covered in rust hidden in the veg patch 😏 Others just vanish. I now periodically go to Ikea and bulk buy them.

Kitchen scissors live in the knife block in the kitchen.
Fabric scissors live in my sewing box.
Normal household scissors should live in a dining room drawer, actually 2 pairs are usually in the kitchen, often in the knife block and the rest are nowhere to be seen!

They go in the bin by accident I reckon.

I’m thinking of boring a hole in the drawer and attaching string to the scissors. If you can’t be trusted to return the scissors, then you’ll need to bring the item that needs sniping to them. Alternatively I’m considering a lockable box and people have to sign them in and out. They think I’m joking… 🧐

Any surface will do: table, chest of drawers, bookshelves or inside the drawers. Once they were in the garage ( on the little table), one pair has gone to live in the car.
I just do thorough check everywhere until they’re found.

My kitchen scissors are in a holder thst has a magnet on the back, so they live on the metal strip nex to my stove. I is well known if they are used, they need to go back into the holder.

Other scissors. Probably a pair in every room. We have an abundance as it seems we bought a new pair every start of school year. Then they all appeared when both DC finished school.

I like the pair per room system though. One in my bedroom to cut off labels, tags, sometimes even a fringe 😂

My sewing scissors aren't allowed out the sewing box unless one is sewing.

You'll need to tidy your daughter's room in a fit of rage, turning out every single drawer as you go. You'll find them all, along with a variety of cutlery

They hang out with the tupperware lids and the socks in a place invisible to the human eye.

I strongly suspect that our many missing kitchen scissors are hiding in the garage.

I am strict with scissors. I have a theory that the more you have, people just treat them as disposable.
Here’s my inventory:

kitchen scissors, 1 pair. They are either being used for kitchen purposes in the kitchen, being washed, or in the cutlery drawer. Had the same pair for 19 years…
nail scissors, 2 pairs. One in my make up bag, the other on the landing unless in use.
haircutting scissors, 1 pair, in my wardrobe
fabric scissors, 1 pair in sewing basket.
stationery scissors (for wrapping etc) with the sellotape in my bedroom - available for very short term loans
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(disclaimer, I live with 3 other adults and a teenager - they are welcome to buy their own scissors if they don’t like the terms I set!)

Your scissors have emigrated to join their Canadian cousins in our cutlery drawer, which has about six pairs already. That's in addition to the office scissors, the workshop scissors, the garage scissors, the bathroom scissors, the sewing box scissors...

If my father has visited your house they are in the garden. Scissors of all kinds are used in the garden despite there being a shed load of fancy tools to do the job easier.

I'm on a few Facebook quilting groups and there are quite often pictures of fabric scissors with a padlock through the handles. Sort of joking, but also sort of not.

I don’t know where they go and neither do any members of my family. But if I lose the plot and shout a lot about lost scissors some mysteriously make it back to the kitchen.

A pair of scissors is one of the best garden tools that exists. I can see why kitchen scissors walk outside.

This is a very nice thread and it's good to see the severity aimed by many at the sort of people who don't quite understand about the sewing scissors.

I am thinking of attaching an AirTag to every set of scissors.

AirTag!!!! 👏

Will know who as well as where 👀