Missing scissors

OK, I know dryers are notorious for eating socks, but when did couches start swallowing scissors into what ever black hole that they go to.

Yesterday as I was watching the Rose Parade, my best scissors disappeared. We have a dual recliner loveseat and I have searched every cranny of it. I even tip it over and checked the under mechanisms. Of course it was harboring giant dust bunnies, so I dragged out the vacuum. Then I cleaned the leather and put the tv room back together. Still haven't found my scissors. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bobbie V.

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Queen City x-stitcher
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Bobbie,

Kneel in the chair and then shove your hand into the crevasses of the loveseat.

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

That didn't work. I can reach all the way back and around the lining. I've checked along the arm as well and along the foot rest padding. Bobbie

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Queen City x-stitcher

This is an expensive way of doing it but it's guaranteed to work. Just invite around the most awkward and argumentative person that you know and get them to sit down heavily in the chair. They are SURE to find the scissors sticking into a tender part of their anatomy; they will then probably sue you but at least you've got your scissors back...

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Bruce

On mine, they go down the side, not the back. I have to poke around the sides and sometimes even tip the sofa sideways to get them to slide back to their position!

Good luck!

Reply to
lewmew

Did you get up for a snack or drink? Maybe you brought them with you and set them down? Check the cupboards or refrigerator. Or did you take a quick bathroom break?

Reply to
Jeri

Look in the Frigidaire i left mione there once ,,, Probably when i made coffe and poured the milk mirjam

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

I'm notorious for leaving things in strange places (though usually the remote control rather than my scissors). My most infamous one (for the remote) was in the underwear drawer! :) Heather

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Heather in NY

My 28mm rotary cutter went missing last year. I looked high and low for it for weeks. I finally decided it must have fallen off the table into the trash can and got thrown out so I went and bought a new one. Several months later I was rummaging through my car's glove box and there it was! To this day I still have no idea why I brought it out there! LOL

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Jeri

So sad to lose something you need and respect like your best scissors. Did you look under things that are miles away? Sometimes these things jump off in the distance and hide.

I'm sorry to say this but possibly the best way to find this pair of scissors is to buy a replacement. The moment you pay the bill for the new one, the old one will probably come out of hiding.

Lucille

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Lucille

Queen City x-stitcher ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Do you have a magnet you can stuff down the sides and back ? Perhaps one you normally used for spilled dressmaking pins ? I find that a good method.

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lucretia borgia

In news:hJ-dnVSh3Lz3HAfYnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@adelphia.com, Lucille purred:

I find those magnetic strips (for holding patterns to the metal backer boards) in weird places, sometimes (ok, most of the times) with kitty-teeth-marks on them.

You stole my suggestion!!!! LOL

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Magic Mood Jeep©

Was probably in your hand or purse when you went to go somewhere, so you absently tossed it in there so you would "remember" where you put them when you got back home.

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Magic Mood Jeep©

Having lost stuff in my parents' recliner, let me suggest that you recline/sit up/recline/sit up a dozen times in rapid succession. Somehow, stuff gets caught in the mechanism and gets dislodged if you jiggle the mechanism around enough times.

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Karen C - California

I have concluded that there are malevolent fairies in my house. Last year, I stitched some ornaments as a gift, and set them on my dining room table for assembly when I had time. When I went to assemble them, I found the backing fabric, but not the ornaments. So, I re-stitched the ornaments and then couldn't find the backing fabric.

Mind you, I am the only person who lives in this house, so I can't say "DH must've moved it to make room to do the crossword" or "DS must've grabbed it to use as a handkerchief in an emergency." The only thing the dining room table is used for these days is crafting, so I wouldn't have moved the stuff, either, since I hadn't been doing anything that required use of the table.

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Karen C - California

Several months

This reminds me of my boss - he put something in the wrong file and I looked high and low for it for days. Every once in awhile, when I had nothing else to do, I'd look again. About three years later, I came in one morning and found the missing documents in my chair with a note "Look what I found." I asked him where he found them and of course he didn't remember - so now it's going to be one of those mysteries that drives me nuts until I die!

Linda

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lewmew

I once had mine slide off my leg into the side of the recliner. When I got up I pulled the fabric to the side, shined a flashlight in the crack & found

3 dog bones 5 needles a pen

but no scissors!

--cocoa

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T Michelle Jensen

I went and visited Cheryl this morning. After a good gab and let's see session, I took my mom shopping. When I got home DD was up (she works second shift) and I told her that I lost my scissors in the sofa. "Which scissors?? You have dozens of "GOOD scissors!" She said. " I heard something 'poing' in the sofa when I sat down last night." A short time later she heard a clank on the wood floor. But she didn't look under the sofa to check what it was. So here I was this morning still looking in the sofa and they were on the floor. They seem to be in ok shape. I think they are slightly magnetized as I often use magnets to park my tools, and were stuck to the mechanisms. But I had turned the sofa over and looked into the workings.

Well the scissors are found, the floor and baseboard heaters have been cleaned and vacuumed so now I can finish my project.

Bobbie V.

Reply to
Queen City x-stitcher

I'm always losing the remote control for the tv in the bedroom, but I've finally learned that, 9 times out of ten, I've made the bed with the remote tucked under the covers somewhere.

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Jere Williams

And I have her missing Q-Snap! Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

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