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?

@Jellytotsandwinegums " proof that she really couldn't have anything good for herself."

Oh the times that my mother guilt-tripped me using that line. 😆

£100!!! Holy shit.. even £30 is a lot, I get it now

My brother in law used my fabric scissors to cut out a knot in his shoe lace! It was over 40 years ago and I still have not forgiven him!

I used to be a demon for using my Nanas pinking shears on paper when I was small 😆

My dad used mine for wallpaper. I could have cried.

For some strange reason this reminded me of the booklets we used to get when we were kids. They were made of thin cardboard and there were male and female figures to cut out and dress in cut out outfits - these had little tabs you folded over to keep them on the figures. Anyone else remember these, or am l just old ?!!

@Rosscameasdoody I remember them!! I'm equally old!

I bet the trainers smell delightful!

Awww I loved them @Rosscameasdoody

I might try & find some before I go back to school because when you think of it it's fantastic for improving motor skills in kids while being framed as a fun activity

@MonkeyRum When I was very small, I once took my mum’s fabric scissors and cut out (what I thought was very neatly.) all of her sewing patterns. She wasn’t a happy lady!

My paternal grandmother idolised me and I could rarely do wrong, so if she was cross with me then I knew it was serious. She was so, so vexed on one occasion, when I'd taken a ball-point pen and enhanced the features of the woman posing on the front of her Kays catalouge.

Lots of muttering ensured, about "what does it look like?" and "it's ruined now, totally ruined".

It was to be many years later that I discovered that Kays was very much the "posh" end of the club-book world, something which made perfect sense once learnt, as my grandmother would readily have described herself as "upper working class", had such a term existed in society as opposed to in her head.

@Rosscameasdoody @Scorchio84

A trip down memory lane.

I was at an event for the International Outdoor Quilting Day recently and somebody said in a hushed tone “Has anybody got scissors for paper??”.
I did. I wasn’t going to risk losing my precious fabric scissors at an outdoor event.

Mine are forged steel, weigh about 300g and were made in Budoia, a small Italian village with a cottage industry that used to make switchblades, the classic Mafia knife.
I got my pinking shears second hand. The black handles are all chipped but the blades are resharpened to perfection. A hex on anyone that uses them for paper!
This might be a shock but you CAN sharpen scissors by repeatedly snipping aluminium foil.

https://www.ernestwright.co.uk/product/13-heritage-shears/
These are a bit special

I learned a new word here today, trivet, after 25 years of speaking mostly English. Can't count the times I've exclaimed 'where's the Untersetzer?!' (under-putter, the German term) while standing by the table holding a hot frying pan.

Never again! Great thread this.

That doesn't solve the problem. I once rotary cut card for an entire day - & then realised it was my fabric cutter, not my card one.

if they have to make their own way from now on, why go soft with a lift to the bus station?

Not Budoia, Maniago.

You need it to be a good drive away, so they aren’t moping about outside the house, looking in with their hands on the window, while you’re eating dinner and it’s just starting to rain. And you don’t want them taking up residence in the shed.

To have them near at hand for when he starts snoring?

ah no way! Such a blast from the past, hours just sitting at the table snipping away, thanks for the memories @Bluebirdover

Exactly! You need a cleaver or secateurs for that

this thread is a revelation, I've learned so much, it's as if I've stumbled into a secret society 😆

My kid once used my rotary fabric cutter in place of a pizza cutter…😭

Were they easily placed for adoption?

@Bluebirdover you think I went to the trouble of sorting adoption after that?!