I recently had some bad flare-ups in my hands and fingers making almost everything impossible to open. At best, if I wait 2 hours after taking Arthritis Strength Tylenol, I can use a 75 year old pair of pliers to open bottles of tea or soda, otherwise, I simply can’t open them no matter how hard I try. You have provided me with multiple tools to help in the kitchen and around the house. Thank you SO much!
Excellent video with great ideas. Thanks very much ❤ Please make a video on how to remove those terrible plastic rings they put on Costco items to keep two things together.
1:03 how do you open plastic containers that contain cheese slices, deli food like potato salad, spinach dip, lunch meat, etc? The type that need to be separated. Thanks!
I ❤ this! I want to tell you how much hope you have given me. I felt i had to feel so defeated because i have lost grip strength in both my hands. What can you use to open bags like cheese that has rip part on top and a plastic zipper below. ? How about bags like potato chip bags to open which i used to grip with both hands and pull open? How to open kielbasi or hot dog that has a little corner to pull the plastic open that does not have much if a grip on a corner.
On vitamin supplement and medication bottles with a seal on top, I take an X-Acto knive and cut a v-shape slightly larger than the capsule or pill size. If there's cotton, I pull it out slowly with tweezers. I can be clumsy opening those bottles at times and this way if I do drop it, most of that expensive medication/supplements stay in the bottle and not scatter all over the floor.
Mine have a tab to push & then twist off, but if you turn the lid upside down that portion of the lid is threaded and you can just close & unscrew it like that.
Yes, I have had a few with the tab but most do not. After I finally get the lid off then it can be turned upside down to make it easier the next time.@@raffinataonline
I have a generic brand of meds that come in a box of blister packs of 6 pills. They have arrows showing you to peel open at the corners of each blister and unlike most of those kind of packages this one just will not open easily. I can't get the two layers to separate even if I manage to get a nail between them, it's so frustrating. 😖 I sometimes end up cutting open the blister with my nail scissors. Ugh. I don't have arthritis but I do have weaker hands now that I'm 78, plus a little neuropathy from chemo 9 years ago. It doesn't help when you're tired and it's your bedtime med that gives you grief.🤨
I have a hard time unscrewing the cap on the half and half container before I even get to the pull ring. There is a click stop in the screw cap and I have arthritis. I also have a really hard time with the Vitafusion push down screw tops. Once I get them open. Never close them all the way.
Thank you so much for all of these helpful tips. I have been trying to get once a month gagets to help in in kitchen for RA. Very helpful the options for cheaper options, spoon, pliers,ect.
pre made salads come with a clear plastic lid that are HARD to remove. Will the hot pot gripper work for those since it is so much larger than a peach or applesauce cup? I loved the tips. I bought all the gadgets...except the pickle key. BUT I may buy that because getting my Rubbermade containers open is a bear.
The hardest containers for me to open are the hummus, salad, and dip containers with from Trader Joe's. Their plastic seals' adhesion seems to be unnecessarily tight. Will that microwave tool work on them or is there something better to use?
I have a horrible time with syrup and milk lids I'm going to get some of the forceps for those so thankyou for that, I'm also going to pass your channel name onto my OT so she can give it to her contacts because I have leart so much about things I didnt even think of, just from the few videos I have seen...You have no idea how much you have helped me already Huge thankyou
Does the pickle key work to open the cheese dip (gordo's), because that is on the corner of the container. Or the pimento cheese (palmetto brand) that seems to have break away edges.
How would you teach toddlers to open cheese sticks or milk cartons? Do some simply not have the strength in their hands yet? Signed, classroom assistants everywhere.
I remember my late, 92 year old mother, holding containers up and saying " How do they expect an old lady to open this?". Now I am turning into my mother for I say the same now ! Thanks for that most informative tutorial. I am having shoulder replacements soon and your videos have been the best I have seen on RU-vid, and imbued me with confidence. Thanks from Darlington, England.
