MY 12 year old used my fabric scissors to open a bag of popcorn. Is there any point keeping them?

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Or shall I just drop them off at the bus station with a tenner and tell them they need to make their own way in life from this point on?

Thoughts and prayers OP🕯️

😂I have seen children put up for adoption for this...... ( joking I am joking)

I don’t either! But I’m not really into fabrics and sewing??? I don’t really know what they are

No. The kid’s an idiot. Get rid.

Sorry, wrong quote

This is such an old joke! Has been doing the rounds for at least 10yrs!!

Ten long years since your dressmaking mother left you at the National Express station. Glad you've made it through okay

Aye, put the tenner towards new shears. The popcorn'll do as survival kit.

My DD (adult) reached for my fabric scissors today to open a parcel (we were hiding in my sewing room to not let husband see as it was his birthday present). I almost shouted no at her and she looked slightly surprised as a result. But then went and fetched some kitchen ones. A near miss! The

Rotary cutter anyone?

I came home once and DH had friends round, he was using my beloved china inherited from my grandma, who inherited from her mother, royal doulton - cake slice, to serve up frozen pizza and the matching cake tower/stand thing was filled with onion rings, chicken wings and mozzarella sticks while they all ate off the delicate dessert plates. He said it made him feel fancy 🤦‍♂️

I found DH using mine to cut up pictures and card for the History quizzes he is doing with his classes in their last 2 lessons of term. Big quizzes, not easy, one for Y10 and one for Y12. 8 rounds in each, require colour coded cards (was what he said when I complained) .
I have brought them to bed with me (the scissors), sharpened them with their sharpener and put them in my bedside drawers.

Are you mad? 🤨

Give her £2 and a bottle of water. She’s made her bed.

My DH used mine to do his Christmas wrapping. I took him into the fabric shop with me to buy replacements and mentioned what he’d done. There was a collective intake of breath and an ‘ooooh’ from the staff in there. He still isn’t completely sure why it was so wrong, but he said he never wants to be looked at like that again and now knows that they are completely out of bounds.

Am I the only one to at doesn't understand the problem?! It’s akin to a hairdresser having their scissors used to cut wallpaper. Heinous.

Just how blunt are the scissors going to be after slicing through smooth plastic? Surely cutting through fabric will prove more resistant?
no idea though really; dd2 is a keen dressmaker and has fabric scissors and all kinds of specific tools, she buys them all herself with her wages - are fabric scissors horribly expensive? Cant they be sharpened?
I once used dhs “precision tile cutters” to remove a nail from a door - they were the tool closest to me that did the job 🤷‍♀️
Ds uses my olaplex when he showers -
it’s all just ‘stuff’ isn’t it?!

Some things are sacred. The good fabric shears (and the expensive chocolate) are at the head of the list.

You can get them sharpened. But the bus stop option remains as a 'suspended' if they do it a second time.

This sounds like a spoof headline in Waitrose Magazine 😀

I find they’ve got a mind of their own.

they need to be scalpel sharp too.

Only popcorn? My DH used mine to clip the hens' wings!

He's under the patio now?

I'll give you an alibi

Off with their head!

I have fabric scissors that are beside my sewing things that my family know not to use. But because I know none of them can resist the lure of the fabric shears, I also have a hidden, secret pair that none of them know about that I keep in a secret location. They remain sharp. Oddly the "of course we don't use them" fabric scissors couldn't cut a slice of softened butter.

Unforgivable. Do not give him a tenner. He might come back.

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If they're so delicate that cutting one popcorn bag will blunt them, surely you have to regularly sharpen them anyway?

You have clearly brought them up very badly and have reaped the rewards. You don't deserve to have decent fabric scissors. £11 should make up for it.