Putting on new guitar strings, and buying a new pair of needlenose pliers

Last night, when I sat down to restring my acoustic guitar (the lovely Ovation I bought in 2017), I couldn't find the needlenose pliers I keep in the case for my trusty old Fender acoustic guitar (which I bought in 1985), and the pliers were missing from our toolbox, too. So I couldn't cut the long extra parts of the new strings off after tuning them all up. So today, I made a special trip to a hardware store for a new pair of needlenose pliers. So before practicing just now, I cut off the string ends. And of course, I had to retune the new strings after every other song. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 10 January 2025)