Can’t open tins, bottles etc

Since listening to Dr. Hilary Jones banging on about having a good grip will extend your life expectancy, I persevere. When I broke my arm and shoulder in a fall due to a broken pavement, the A And E surgeon asked me to shake his hand as hard as possible. He was about 6ft 6in and like a bear but I gripped so hard he told me I would recover. Everyone else disagreed. I still struggle sometimes with Bovril. Solution? Hot water expands the plastic top. When impossible (I’m not Superwoman), I ask male family members to help. Son bought me a gadget from John Lewis but it requires some strength to use it.

Putting on a rubber glove often helps ime.

Aldom

All of the above advice is useful and I'll add a tip of mine.
Try wearing a rubber glove. I find that works for me with my arthritic hands.

Yes rubber glove works for me too !

I have a multipurpose opener, bought by DH for 50p at a church jumble sale many years ago. It seems to cope with most things and is one of those things I would save in an emergency!

I think they’re generally harder anyway. I have a gadget for ring pulls and bottle tops and hit the edge of jars in something to bend them which breaks the seal. I’m reasonably healthy and don’t have arthritis. Ridiculous isn’t it. One roll on deodorant I buy was getting harder and harder to open. My husband couldn’t even open it with a vice and a load of tools! I wrote to the company and they apologised and sent me a box of them, all opening ok! They’ve always been ok since. Sometimes it’s worth speaking out and not assuming it’s just you.

That's fine if you've got any teeth left!

electric can opener is the only one I can use, try Age UK they have loads useful gadgets

I have a gadget to release the airlock on jar lids and then I put a rubber glove on to turn the lid.

But do you want a hole in your lid which won’t keep the contents as fresh? Amazon sell a jar key for around a fiver and it is effortless to release the vacuum.

Try wearing a washing up glove, that usually works for me. Or stab a hole in the lid will release the seal.

I think everything is more difficult to pen!
Even yogurt pots
Meat in sealed packaging
For bottles and jars I wack the lids with a rolling pin or stab jar lids with a knife!

It works! The medicine bottle trick! I found a bottle of indigestion mixture. Inside the lid, there was a narrow band of plastic at the edge. I got this out with a knife and hey presto, the lid goes on and off like a normal bottle! It might not be leak proof, of course, but I’ll just avoid chucking it around.

I was also going to suggest a rubber glove or a thin vinyl surgical style glove. That enables me to be about to master most things.

Hot water bottle tops, I just put a skewer through the hole in the stopper and use it like a lever.

Bleach and toilet liquid products, I think the knack to opening them is to squeeze the top while also pressing and twisting on them at the same time. More easily done if you have skills as a contortionist. 😫

I don’t currently have a bottle of liquid medicine to test it on, but I’ve seen that the childproof tops have an inner and an outer layer. Separate the two (without giving yourself an injury that requires a limb to be sewn back on) and the inner part should then function like a regular bottle top.

Oh yes.
Beetroot, too.

MissAdventure

I have trouble too.
I wanted a cheese and picke sandwich last week, and ended up working my way through my cupboard trying to find something to put in my sarnie instead.

I ended up having plain cheese.

I’ve started buying spring onions. Something I’ve never much bought in the past but hate having to cut into a whole onion when I fancy a cheese and onion sandwich.

Moth62

It’s the duck-neck shaped bottles of toilet cleaner that I find infuriatingly difficult to open. I broke my wrist a few years ago and haven’t the strength now that I had when younger.

Same here. I have to leave them with the top off.

It’s the duck-neck shaped bottles of toilet cleaner that I find infuriatingly difficult to open. I broke my wrist a few years ago and haven’t the strength now that I had when younger.

Thank you.
I'll go and have a look

Get a jar key, absolutely brilliant for jars that need a twist release the vacuum, very easy to use and no strength required. Available from Amazon.

I wanted an "l' in my pickle, too.
It sucks to be me.

I have trouble too.
I wanted a cheese and picke sandwich last week, and ended up working my way through my cupboard trying to find something to put in my sarnie instead.

I ended up having plain cheese.

How old are you ?

There's a little dent un der the lid, insert a small spoon and twist, it should loosen.

I hate bleach bottles as there is no way I can open them. Have been waiting nearly 3 weeks for someone who can open them to turn up at my door. Do not have a lot of visitors so who knows how long I will be buying other products to do the job of bleach! One of the pleasures of getting old & decrepit isnt it?

I struggle with bleach bottles and liquid medicine bottles. They have the special push down and turn mechanisms. There’s no way in Gods green earth that I can open them, even by using all the gadgetry and tea-towels etc!