Good advice from Jennifer James, a radio psychologist broadcasting out of Seattle some years ago. She said you KNOW you're going to need 75 pairs of scissors in your lifetime, so why not just go out now and buy them all, and then you never need to stand in the kitchen yelling to your family, "who took the kitchen scissors?!"
15 November 2008
How many pairs of scissors?
Where are the scissors when you want them? I've rounded up all mine:
Good advice from Jennifer James, a radio psychologist broadcasting out of Seattle some years ago. She said you KNOW you're going to need 75 pairs of scissors in your lifetime, so why not just go out now and buy them all, and then you never need to stand in the kitchen yelling to your family, "who took the kitchen scissors?!"
Good advice from Jennifer James, a radio psychologist broadcasting out of Seattle some years ago. She said you KNOW you're going to need 75 pairs of scissors in your lifetime, so why not just go out now and buy them all, and then you never need to stand in the kitchen yelling to your family, "who took the kitchen scissors?!"
Great stuff, Margaret, you really make me laugh - I think we have four pairs of scissors ✄ in the kitchen alone ☺.
ReplyDeleteI always wonder when I visit people who only have 'one of each'.........
I used to have only 1 pair in the kitchen and it dissappeared all the time. So I bought several pairs, and hid them.... every time one dissappeared from the kitchen I took out the next pair... after a while, my husband had so many in his workshop, that he actually started to bring them back! I always have 4 in the kitchen, 2 in the basement, one in the garage, one with the Christmas wrappings, and a few others around. NO ONE touches the sissors in my sewing room under the penalty of death! Patty.
ReplyDeleteSince I took the photo two more pairs of scissors have turned up - oh, and there's another pair in the bedroom, just remembered those. Does one person living in four rooms really need so many? (yes...)
ReplyDeleteReally quite a modest collection, Margaret - you must be better organised than me. As an illustration I have FOUR pairs of reverse applique scissors (don't use very often but when you need them nothing else will do) two that are somewhere in one of the rooms I've stashed stuff in and haven't sorted yet but they will turn up one day; one because I needed to do some cut-back work - and it took a while to get hold of them; and the fourth I bought at FOQ because the EG stand had them and I thought I'd better have a reserve pair just in case! Currently my count is 28 (including one pair of snips and one of nail-clippers) but when I've decluttered the remaining rooms in preparation for downsizing that total could go up significantly!
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