One of the things that I carried as a father of young children was a Victorinox keychain pocketknife with the mini scissors. I used them to cut my children's straws so that they were better sized for the children's cups that they got at the fast food restaurants that we frequented. I used them for various other things that came up.
It was nice to have a pocketknife connected to my keychain. I could easily cut things and use the little scissors to cut paper and straws and other small items to custom fit them to whatever I was doing.
Recently my adult daughter commented to her husband that "yeah, my dad has scissors on the knife on his keychain". And I was embarrassed that I did not have one of those connected to my keychain at the time. All of my children are adults and I figured I did not need to keep one on my keychain anymore. But I did keep one in the vehicle that was parked in my garage at my house over a thousand miles away. It was rather frustrating and disappointing. As I cleaned out the vehicle in y driveway recently I found the small pocketknife and reattached it to my keychain.
I look forward to giving my adult children pocket knives with scissors to attach to their keychains so that they can do the things that I did as I raising them. We'll see what they do with them...
