Can’t open tins, bottles etc

My arthritic hands make lid removal impossible. I have to get help from anyone. If my oh is not around it has even been the postman ! I have every known gadget. For jars, I thump the lid down hard on the marble table top to break the seal. It is still in one piece. Sometimes the grip clothes work. Inwas in the bathroom and tried to undo the top of a new tube of toothpaste. Impossible until I remembered how in my youth we would take the tops off a beer using the crack in the door. Worked a treat so, later on used the same method to open a tube of tomato paste. I was happy but not good for the paint work.

I second the bottle/ jar opener device- I will try to paste link ( might not work!)
Look at this product that I found on google.com share.google/kHH1HEmuTBaRU0uE7
This one is called Olstar but there's lots of similar ones. Hold the open pincer end. Never failed me! Also tapping metal jar lid sharply on counter top is very good but no good for water bottles etc.Above device works for all.

Wrap a thick elastic band around the lid of jars. This always works for me.
I like the suggestion of a rubber glove. I hadn't thought of that.

We tor a jarkey and a device for opening water bottles from Amazon - both are very well used!

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MartavTaurus

I agree that bottles tops have become harder to open. The worst thing is when, dying of thirst, you buy a drink from a petrol station or a vending machine, yet you can't get the darn cap off. I've resorted to using my teeth before now!
Is it our strength or our dexterity that weakens with time?

Having tried this once, I now ask the young man or woman who served me to unscrew the bottle top for me, or simply stop the first young or youngish person I meet in the street and ask if they have time to help.

So far no-one has ever refused.

What really gets my goat is picking up a prescription and discovering that there is no way I can squeeze the eye drops out of the container or undo the lid of a container of pills.

When you think that a good many drugs are more likely to be prescribed for the elderly than for the young, these at least should be purveyed in packaging people of my age (74) can actually open!

I smack jar lids on the side with a wooden spoon which breaks the seal and lid is easily removed.

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!

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?

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

How old are you ?

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

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.

Thank you.
I'll go and have a look

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.

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.

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.

Oh yes.
Beetroot, too.

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.

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 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!

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

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.

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