Left handers!

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If you're a left handed adult do you have any left handed specific products?

Myself and my DH are left handed, 36 and 40 respectively and don't own anything left handed specific at all. I vaguely remember using a left handed fountain pen in primary school but that's it.
It has never even crossed my mind until now that my life may be made slightly easier if I did.

I've been looking online and it seems you can get a left handed version of anything and everything.
Obviously we get by just fine but are we missing out and just accepting our right handed world when things could be easier?

I'm definitely getting some scissors as this was all prompted by wrapping presents and again tearing the paper every single time but what else is good?

I did have a left handed cheque book. Apart from that, nothing

I'm a leftie. The only thing I'd really like is a set of left-handed kitchen knives!

I cannot cope with a normal tin opener. I tend to unscrew them rather than open tins. But I cannot use a left handed one either. I either use an electric one or one you lay flat on the top rather than the side.

Nothing, I do everything back to front. I use my right hand to cut with scissors though.
At most its mildly irritating that things are optimised for right handers. My dad was beaten at school until he used his right. So progress is good.

I write left handed but do everything else with my right (scissors, carving knife, tennis etc). Not sure why tbh.

I agree with the issue of checkbook seems getting in the way

I have a left handed cheque book. I'd like some left handed scissors as rh ones do my head in.

Left handed hairdressing scissors.

I'm a 43 year old leftie and things didn't exist when I was younger so I just got by and figured out (mostly badly!) how to do things. Now when I try I can't use things like left handed scissors as I'm so used to using right handed stuff! I do get very funny looks when I use a tin opener! I mange though in my own way

I'm left handed, I don't have anything. What are left handed kitchen knives ?

Right handed scissors are a pain but I probably wouldn't use left handed ones now, I've done it right handed for the past 45 years so no point in changing now.

Left handed

fountain pen
Scissors (hated them as a child but tried them again recently and amazing)
Garden secateurs
Razor hoe

I used to have a left handed peeler. I’d like left handed scissors and a left handed tin opener.

I have left handed scissors and golf clubs.

Dd has left handed scissors, rules, notebooks, pencil sharpener. She can't use a left handed tin opener, she isn't coordinated enough. We argue a lot about the kettle- she wants a left handed one and I refuse to relinquish my right handed version.

No, I just do things a bit awkwardly and bitch about the world being back to front.

I have a pair of left-handed scissors but they're never to hand so I use normal ones. The only other thing I have is a vegetable peeler with a swivel blade, so it can be used in either hands. I find left-handed implements expensive and aren't a huge improvement in getting things done. I've just learned to adapt to a right-handed world

Scissors, some knives but I don't really like them.
I'd really like a left handed cake fork though.

I had a left handed cheque book.

I also had a left handed corkscrew which I used to amuse myself with by watching right handers trying to use it.

I also had a left handed ruler which was genuinely useful.

In the left handed shop in London they had a MASSIVE left handed scythe on the wall. The thought of someone buying it and taking it home on the tube amused me.

I’m left handed and both my parents are left handed. I don't have any specific left handed things although i once had some scissors which were pretty awesome.

The one time I really notice it is in gym classes. I automatically start everything with my left leg and the default expectation is the other way round. So they are telling you to turn to your left/now wrap your left arm round and I’m always in a knot/falling over

I don't have problems with scissors or tin openers and I can't even begin to imagine what left-handed kitchen knives would look like (or is that a joke). I have left-handed paddles for kayaking and I never forgave the MOD for forcing me to shoot right-handed but apart from that I've managed OK.

My ds is a lefty. We have bought him things in the past but he prefers to just get on. He likes being more ambidextrous than we are.

What on earth is a left handed kettle?? Mine is symmetrical?

I have to make sure my bread knife is symmetrical or it makes cutting bread a farce. (Otherwise the direction on the serration meant you end up cutting on the wink.) Scissors I use normal ones but just make sure the handles are symmetrical so you don't have the shaped thumb hole which makes them very uncomfortable.

I don't have a left handed ruler but that is something I used to sometimes wish I had at school.

Everything else I just manage, even using a fountain pen is fine. Tin openers are a bit annoying as I basically have to use them right handed, but I have just practiced til I can do it. I think I was forced into being semi ambidextrous though as my mum wouldn't let me use the computer mouse left handed so I do that right handed.

Computer mouse and scissors. For everything else I've adapted to using things my own way. Electric tin opener was a game changer for me.

Can openers are a real pain for us, they always end up breaking. I try to buy ring pulls only (great invention) but sometimes I'm faced with a tin of tuna and no ring pull. It's always a disaster!

I've googled and left handed knives are definitely a thing!

Im very much left handed and don't do anything with my right, I find it very uncomfortable. I do hold my knife and fork the 'right' way round though.

I'm a 52 year old leftie and never had any leftie products. I even used to be a hairdresser.

Only specific left handed items I own are fabric scissors and secateurs (Felco, fab quality!) DH bought me an electric tin opener as I'm useless with manual tin openers