Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => Other Health Discussion => Topic started by: cubagirl on January 06, 2017, 01:33:34 PM
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Ok ladies I'm not going mad, so far as I am aware. ;D However, these days I cannot unscrew screw tops from anything more than a toothpaste tube. I need hubby to unscrew a bottle of wine ;D ;D ;D Ok, maybe not the most essential of items. Once the seals are broken, no problem, but I do wonder what the heck is going to happen if he isn't able to help, which may well happen. I cannot grip things hard enough without causing a great deal of pain to wrist &/or fingers. I'm only 60. I even bought a special gadget to help me, was as useless as a chocolate teapot!
Do any of you have any tips for me?
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A chocolate teapot sounds rather delicious! ;D I have to get help opening a lot of jars. Even DH struggles and has resorted to piecing. Neither of us have joint problems, though over 60. How do much older people cope?
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I've only just hit 50 with no hand/finger problems and I've been struggling a few years, there's no hope for me then ! X
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Ladies - if you want to open a glass jar with a metal lid, just pour boiling water over the lid first. It should then unscrew easily. I hope that helps! :)
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Useful tip, thanks Jenna. I do have a useful gadget for ring pulls, which are also becoming harder to pull. This old age malarkey is no fun at all. ::)
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Ladies - if you want to open a glass jar with a metal lid, just pour boiling water over the lid first. It should then unscrew easily. I hope that helps! :)
You can pierce the lid with a sharp knife too which helps.
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Go to a mobility shop!!!! or look on line: do NOT use knives - A&E are busy and self-inflicted wounds are so not appreciated right now!
AgeUK have brochures about what might be required as we age ;D We have a metal thingy that undoes other thingies ........
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Tap the lid against a hard surface a few times and it's meant to loosen the lid.
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A large, thick elastic band wrapped round the lid gives a firmer grip?
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Megamind, broke jar doing that once, so not anxious to repeat, but thanks.
Tried rubber too. Bought a rubber mat thingy to use, but no luck.
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You need to break the seal. Look round the rim for the bits with notches, then just twist a knife upwards under them. You'll hear a pop and the lid will unscrew easily then😊
Ariadne xx
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Tap the lid against a hard surface a few times and it's meant to loosen the lid.
If it's on a glass jar, I'd probably break the glass, knowing my clumsiness!
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I find putting on dry rubber gloves helps with the gripping of a slippery jar, failing that, manpower :)
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Just got to figure out the wine bottles, of course I could just buy posh stuff with corks! ;D ;D ;D
I've tried many of these ideas, thanks ladies. Think my grip is the main problem. Hubby thinks I'm putting it on. ::)
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Every sympathy sparkle! It's pants isn't it! :-\
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Hello cubagirl.
Breaking the airtight seal is the trick as ariadne says. To do this I tap all the way around the lid with the handle of a knife to create indentations which then breaks the seal and loosens the lid.
Take care ladies.
K.
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my mother in law used to swear by a device she got out of one of those homeware catalogues that come through the door - it was like a rubber fairy cake case.
For jars, I stab them with an old fashioned manual tin opener of the type used for camping in the 1970s - saved specially for the purpose. That usually works. ;)
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Crisp packets have become more difficult to open, I think it's the Fat Police ;). I tried to open a packet of GO! biscuits in the car recently when I had a sudden dip when travelling, we almost had to stop so that Himself could do it 4 me >:(. Found a nail-file eventually !
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;D ;D ;D see what desperation does to us.
Managed to open wine tonight. Must have been really desperate! ;D
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Found some contraption in my kitchen drawer. Must have bought, thinking I'd need it. ;D Worked a treat on wine bottle. Now to try on more sensible containers. :D Hubby looked on in shock that I'd opened wine bottle. ;D ;D ;D
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;D ;D ;D
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>hands over glass< ;D
I had difficulty getting a bun out of an already opened packet earlier >:( :-X
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I have some very grippy nut crackers that are good at opening wine bottles. No good at nuts, of course.
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chopping is the same, we both have trouble with it, especially onions - slippery little blighters. Today we have ordered a nice little electric chopper for onions, garlic, chillies, nuts, things like that. We reckon in the year we are both 60 we deserve it and I will slice my fingers a lot less often now :)
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Babyjane - that reminds me of a conversation I heard in the last couple of days about a contestant in a cookery programme who managed to :-X the top almost off his finger :o
It was so frustrating earlier that it almost went into the bin, 3 buns and the bag !
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LOL! I bet had I dropped the already opened packet the 3 buns left inside would have fallen onto the floor ::)
What's been fighting back today? for me it was my walking boots, trying to put them un-successfully on earlier, eventually I looked down and they were the wrong way ...... left trying to get into a right boot doesn't work :P
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Oh CLKD! ;D
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LOL! I bet had I dropped the already opened packet the 3 buns left inside would have fallen onto the floor ::)
What's been fighting back today? for me it was my walking boots, trying to put them un-successfully on earlier, eventually I looked down and they were the wrong way ...... left trying to get into a right boot doesn't work :P
I got my jacket completely stuck to my basket in Morrisons and one of the women had to help me. Felt like primary school all over again!
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Trey suggests:
https://smile.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-Jar-Opener/dp/B002DWA6KM/ref=sr_1_4's=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1483817051&sr=1-4&keywords=Jar+opener
I need someone to agree to empty my commode on a regular basis when push comes to shove ;)
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Added to my list.
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What - emptying my commode, why :thankyou:
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:rofl: I think cubagirl meant the jar opener you posted from Trey CLKD
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Trey suggests:
https://smile.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-Jar-Opener/dp/B002DWA6KM/ref=sr_1_4's=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1483817051&sr=1-4&keywords=Jar+opener
I need someone to agree to empty my commode on a regular basis when push comes to shove ;)
Is Trey still around CLKD. I thought she deleted her account ages ago? Am I missing out on something? Why doesn't she rejoin & join in.
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;D ;D ;D see what desperation does to us.
Managed to open wine tonight. Must have been really desperate! ;D
Get a box of wine next time CG ;D ;D ;D- IT's much easier.
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Well if my fridge was working better, I might. (See smelly fridge topic) Meantime I will make use of hubby to open my bottles, well it's time he did something useful. ;D ;D ;D
No CLKD, I'll respectfully decline emptying your commode. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I have kept in touch with Trey intermittently ;) - she comes up with some good ideas !
Are the wine boxes those that we have to lay underneath?
I have a PortaPotty which Himself empties ;-)
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I have kept in touch with Trey intermittently ;) - she comes up with some good ideas !
Does she not want to rejoin then?
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Life has moved on for her ......
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Lying under wine boxes sounds like a good idea, especially some days. ::)
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sometimes I use a bucket in the spare bedroom at night if I don't feel safe on the stairs in the dark. I would never expect my husband to empty it for me unless I was not capable of doing so.
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"Porta Potty" for your birthday then BJ? ;)
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na, bucket is fine thanks :)
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Pink?