I can’t undo…

To save bending the tines of my forks, I use an old-style can punch, as in the photo. I have several, left over from pre-ringpull days. The rounded end inserted under the edge of the lid and levered loosens the seal on most jamjars etc, and the pointed end gets under the edge on stubborn ones. I use the can punch on evaporated milk tins and other tins of liquid too. If you have chucked your old ones out, I've just looked on Amazon, and you can still buy them for £1.99. www.amazon.co.uk/Dexam-Traditional-Nickel-Plated-Bottle?tag=gransnetforum-21

I find that working the tines of a fork under the edge of tops of vacuum sealed jars releases the vacuum and makes them easier to open. My personal hate is reserved for those non prescription medications that can be used to make dangerous drugs and in the US are now only available in tiny quantities in impossible to open blister packs! As though that will stop a dedicated drug user!

I have recently come to the conclusion that almost everything is designed for super-fit 25 year old men of at least average height and with perfect sight and hearing. Bottle tops, medicine containers of various sorts, tiny writing on instructions, background music levels in films, seat belts ( women are far more likely to be seriously injured in an accident) etc etc .......
Think I've digressed a bit 🙄

It’s a hacksaw! I’ve also added a pair of nail scissors and one of those blades that you roll along for getting in to film wrapping. Hoping that having everything to hand, in one place, will reduce my frustration.

I’ve now put together a kit in my kitchen drawer - nut crackers, adjustable spanner, pliers, crocodile thingy and a Stanley knife for cutting those wretched top down bottles in half so I can get at the last bits. I also have a small fine toothed saw for the same job, it has a particularly name which I new a minute ago but not now!

I changed to a brand of hair products where the shampoo is in a black bottle and the conditioner is in a white bottle because of the difficulty of reading in the shower 🤣 I noticed some brands have one of the products upside down - maybe more brands should follow suit… then I can go back to my favourite.
@hetty58 I understand your daughter’s confusion. Dove is one of the hardest brands to ‘sort’ I’ve used body wash as hand cream and vice versa more than once 🙄

Half the gadgets I’ve tried are less than useless

I can no longer manage all of the aforementioned plus the stupid little bit of silver foil on the large size fairy liquid bottles!

I have to drink water from bottles I cannot open, but I have a pair of scissors with gagged edges just before the scissor blades. With those metal bits my bottles open easily and wonder why I had never noticed this facility on my kitchen scissors before now!

The mother of a relative of mine had trouble seeing and also arthritic hands. She used to lie in wait at her garden gate for someone to walk past. She would say "Excuse me, I don't see too well. Could you tell me whether this (shows bottle) is red wine or white?" Once she had an answer, she would ask " . . and would you be so kind as to open it for me? and produce a corkscrew.

Can you not buy ordinary bottle caps for things like bleach bottles instead of the child-proof ones? Then you only need to open the child-proof one once, take it off and put one you can open on instead.

I check pill bottles before leaving the chemist, and get the young women behind the counter to open bottles for me if I cannot do so myself.

There are various gadgets made for opening screw top jars etc. with weak hands. Check Amazon or the like, or ask your district nurse where you can get suitable gadgets. They do exist and make life much easier.

Childproof caps are also disabledproof.

My biggest problem is different attachments for the vacuum cleaner, it need to b squeexed from both sides at once and is virtually impossible.

Susiewong65, my daughter was complaining about dry, flaky skin. She wears glasses, but not in the shower, obviously. It turned out that she'd been washing her body with Dove shampoo.

I complained to M & S about difficulty in completely removing the film on many of their products. It says on the label that the tray should be recycled, but not the film. I suspect that the trays will go into the recycling with film attached round the edges due to the difficulty of removing it all.
I have lost my cool with the bleach tops, and ended up using pliers, which causes bits of the top to break off!

I have a 'ladies' (8" long but does most things) adjustable spanner in my handbag for just such jobs.

Squeeze TOPS…

The silly thing about the squeeze told us that they were introduced as being childproof. Ha! Children apart from
Toddlers find them very easy to open. Granproof more likely 😂

The packaging that most annoys me is the plastic on eg bacon, cold meats, that supposedly has a corner for you to peel back to open. Open here it says, no way! Attack with a knife or scissors.

I have a plastic thing, bought from Amazon, I can open bleach jars and similar with that... I have to get a ring pull on cans thingy next to open them..

and then banning plastic? thinking of re cycling dictats... why can manufacturers have to make things easy, and no plastic, instead of it all falling on us consumers!

I agree have very painful hands cant do these things too hurts just doing everything huckily i have a husband for such things

A rubber band wrapped round lid until tight....and then twist the band instead of the lid

I support Franbern's recommendation of the use of nut crackers. I find then absolutely invaluable, not only for 'safety' lids that require you to squeeze the sides but also the kind of tops you get on cordial bottles and mouthwash where the top is connected to a safety ring that needs to have the contacts broken.

The container for my rheumatoid medication has a cap with a special grip to make it easy to open. That is someone thinking outside the box!

Squeeze tops and squeeze bottles drive me mad! I have attempted to cut the latter to get the last remains out, but neither the scissors nor knives go through. I hate waste, and I can’t understand why the monstrous bottles haven’t been banned - they must last for ever.I