Bill bought these wonderful shears for me for Christmas last year. They are so nice, very sharp, heavy enough to feel real and cut fabric like it is warm butter. I love them. This year, the company sent both of us ads for their Christmas sale. It became funny.
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They have a large selection of their shears, snips, and scissors on a very good sale. The prices were marked down and if you bought 4 items or more, you got the two least expensive free. I bought a pair of shears for Margie, 2 thread nippers (one for me, one for a future quilt guild raffle basket) and selected a pair of fat handled small ones for myself called the Little Giant. That pair and one of the snips were free and the other two were well worth the price.
Meanwhile, in the other room, Bill was looking at the same ad. He came through the sewing area and casually asked about the state of my very own snips, to which I replied “They are shit! I need new ones. They are cheap to begin with.” without thinking that he would want to buy the snips for me. So then we had a conversation about it all and he paid for the charged pair as a gift to me. Ok, that was great. But it was hollow for him.
Then I thought that I would buy him a new bougainvillea to replace the one we lost last year. The subject came up and he said he had been considering that too. I said “Let’s to go the nursery together, pick out one we both like, plant it together tomorrow and call it Christmas.” He was pleased with that and we bought it today. It is purple (the other one was red) and will grow into a lovely vine bush with lots of thorns he will have to avoid when he trims it. It will make us both happy.
Then lil zen showed up and told me she had been considering buying a new bush for us and was dithering between red or purple. LOL!!
Here is a link to the outdated sale page for the scissor company. www.guggenhein.com/...
I am not suggesting that you buy any because the sale is over and you may not care much about scissors but if you do, these are lovely to see. They are presented like works of art with all the finest production values but my experience is that they are not over hyping what they sell. One of my friends said she damaged her pair and contacted the company to buy a new pair. They told her to keep them and sent a new pair without any charges or questions. Good deal.