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 understand the left handed kettle. If it has a cord it's the wrong way so you have to turn the kettle around and then pick it up with your left hand.

Nope. Used a left handed fountain pen in school but the ink still smudged. I can't use LH scissors and have never had anything specifically left handed. I use a y type peeler. Cheque books were a nuisance when I used to use one. Also thick note books so I like to used spiral ones.
Never thought about tin openers actually I hold it with my left and turn it with my right I think and they work ok.

I do everything left hand dominated really but for example will hold and pour the kettle with my right hand but probably because I'm stirring with my left, definitely can't stir with my right.

Left handed DS says that left handed knives probably have a more comfortable, ie for left handers, grip. That does make some sense.
He also opined that a lot of left-handed stuff isn't as well made so he's got used to most things made for right handers.

Cross post about the kettle, hadn't read kettle posts when I mentioned it

My kettle is cordless. I guess I would hold it in my left if I'm just pouring water. But its actually always facing for right handed as husband is right handed and I use it the way it is.

What about a computer mouse ? I use that with my right hand. I suppose because when they were wired ones they were always on the right so I just used it like that and still do with wireless.

Didn't know left handed knives existed!

I don’t own anything left handed. When I renovated my house though my double doors all open to the left much to the annoyance of everyone else who try and open the right doors and find them locked 🤣

Ahah, I have had a cordless kettle on one of those spinny bases that don't mind which way round they are since I left home, and before that my parents had a stove top kettle so I had forgotten the joys of corded kettles! TBF I pour left handed at home but don't mind pouring right handed if it's more convenient which is probably why I never noticed that was a thing!

I have a left handed pencil sharpener which is much less messy for me. Had a left handed fountain pen (still have it) but teacher told my parents I was forbidden to use it as I still smudged.

I have a couple of left handed swords 😁

Have ambidextrous scissors. Left handed power garden tools would be amazing. The buttons are all wrong. My pushchair had a button designed to be used with a single hand, right of course, was such a pain.

Must browse the left handed shop again.

Can I ask a question? My DS is a leftie. He's only 2.5 but he does EVERYTHING with his left, including using cutlery and holding a pen, so it's pretty much definite. I bought his sister (right handed) some new scissors the other week and got him a pair of left handed ones for when he's a bit older.

Is there anything else that might come in handy as he gets older? Or is it better to just let him get on with it, see if there's anything he struggles with as he grows up? (I don't know any lefties apart from my estranged father, and AFAIK he taught himself to do everything right hande, except writing.)

I need a left handed tin opener. I cannot open tins to save my life.

Sounds strange but I got a purse for Christmas with a seperate zip and card bit... .opened the card bit for the slots to be upside down as I'm a lefty! Who knew even purses could be right handed!
Otherwise I just use everything a right handed does just a little awkwardly at times.

I love my left handed ruler.

Does anyone have a left handed mouse? My leftie son insists he's ok with it but I think it's crap that left handed people just have to adapt.

I have left handed scissors and an electric tin opener! My DS is also a leftie and I bought him a ruler which is handy

Lefthander here but apart from writing am fairly ambidextrous, can write legibly but quite slowly with RH.
What on earth are LH scissors? I've always used same kitchen scissors and paper scissors as DH (RH ed) Are scissors supposed to have aright and wrong way up? Never knew and scissors have always seemed to work in my left hand.

Ah @Goldensyrupissticky
I have the same problem with my pram- bloody nightmare to fold with it's right handed button!

@CoodleMoodle I would just say let him get on with it, us lefties need to adapt to a right persons world.

I am left handed and I don't have any special equipment! Although reading these responses, I think a left handed tin opener might be useful, I got a new one recently and every time I try and use it it takes me a lot of trial and error to remember how it works.

I also get very confused at self checkouts when the bagging area is on the right not the left, but that might just be me...

Computer mouse (they tend to be ergonomically shaped so right handed is very awkward!) left handed scissors and breadknife (the serration is on the other side of the blade! Stops me from cutting door wedges!)

Decent scissors (as in scissors where the blades are properly set up for a left hander, not where they've just swapped the handles round

Tin openers used to be a nightmare, but we've had an electronic tin-opener for years (best gadget ever)

Cheque books used to be a right pain, but hardly anyone ever writes cheques anymore

Peelers used to need to be left handed, but not now we use Y shaped ones.

Kettle is a pain - but I'm the only leftie in my house.

Depends how much you use a mouse on a computer and what you need to do with it, some people prefer a left handed one - personally I found it confusing swapping when using a shared computer some of the time, so just use a right handed one.

Magi-can tin opener is my saviour!

Scissors are the main one because they are so awkward to use otherwise. I have left handed scissors for sewing to stop the rest of the family using them; and a can opener.

Most of our other gadgets are ambidextrous. If it was something I used a lot or was precious about, I'd get it left handed.

Scissors. Left handed fiskars have changed my life.

I've ordered some scissor so far which I'm excited about. I want that satisfying glide I've heard about!

I've had the same problem with a purse, for the first time ever a while back.
Twisting and turning it, but it still ended up the wrong way round, or upside down.