Had a client point out I'd been using the same shears for 7 years

I was trimming her ends last Tuesday and she asked when I last sharpened my shears. I told her I'd never done it. She just stared at me in the mirror. Turns out I was crushing the hair instead of cutting clean, which explained all those frayed ends I thought were just from heat damage. Anybody else go years without realizing their tools were dull?

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zara_hunt1mo ago

Walked into my kitchen last month and grabbed my favorite chef's knife to chop onions and it just would not cut through the skin. I kept pressing harder and harder and the onion was just getting bruised and smashed. My husband watched me for a solid minute before asking when I last sharpened it. I told him it was a gift from my mom like 8 years ago and he just laughed. Turns out I've been basically mashing my veggies this whole time and wondering why my knife work looked so sloppy. Now I take all my scissors and knives to a sharpening place every 6 months like my life depends on it.

butler.brian1mo ago

Wait, did your husband ever find out my buddy Ben spent three years slicing tomatoes with a butter knife?