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?

@Sarcobaleno

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.

No I use a right handed on but most mice are symmetrical and you can use the settings to swap the buttons.

@Sarcobaleno

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.

Tbh, a mouse really isn't a big deal - Ive just learn by touch (on a conventional mouse) which buttons do the different commands, so haven't ever used a left handed mouse. It's shaped for either left or right handlers.

However, my DH has an ergonomic shaped cordless mouse and it's completely impossible for me to use because it's shaped completely wrong for a left handed!

My biggest challenge is with scissors as the kitchen ones have right hand shaped handles which are really uncomfortable. I keep meaning to find some left handed kitchen scissors but never get round to it.

I have nothing. I need a tin opener though. I can't use a normal one. I only buy tins with the ring pull lid

I my right hand for the computer mouse, and then my left hand is free to write with (or hold my coffee cup). Have a left handed cheque book somewhere, and I used to have a left handed ruler.

I also use spiral bound notebooks upside down!

@ChristmasUserName2020

My old boss had one of those spiral notepads where the spirals were on the other side.

What's the difference between that and using a right handed one starting at the back

Lefty things I own,
Scissors for dress making;
Ruler not used it in years;
Wooden spoons with the pointy bit in the opposite side, DH moans they don't work;
A single golf iron;
I did own a calligraphy set;
Cheque book, but they are dying out.

Many other things I make sure work with both hands, kettle has a 360 base and measure on both sides.

After reading this thread I've just ordered some left handed scissors! I can't believe I've struggled for 40 years, wrapping presents this year had me cursing! I might order everything leftie now!

Mugs are annoyingly right handed.

50-something lefty here - I've usually adapted to right-handed things, but I was given a set of left-handed secateurs a couple of years ago and they are a gamechanger - I find them much easier to use.

I remember signing my marriage certificate with a right handed fountain pen and ended up more engraving the certificate 😂
I use electric tin opener, double bladed peeler, have left handed scissors but can manage with normal, and kettle handle is always on the left side . Like Pp idea of a left handed notebook though...

I've never had anything left handed other than years ago I had a cheque book. I've adapted to the right handed world but often look awkward.

I'd love a left handed handbag!

Never have. Is that bad? I ought to buy Ds2 some left handed scissors at least.

I also recently bought a left-handed pencil sharpener, I never knew I needed one until I had it but it does make it easier as I naturally hold the pencil in the "wrong" hand for a standard R handed sharpener. I adapted over the years but it is nice to have the L handed version.

Both me and dh are left handed and the only specialist thing in the house is a collection of left handed scissors. My large set and a load of children's safety scissors. I only have them as I'm a teaching assistant so I do a lot of cutting (literally hours of it) and my left handed student have a nightmare finding scissors, so I provide my own for them to borrow.
Although when I was younger the only left handed thing I really needed was a left handed hockey stick for pe, but the school said it wasn't worth it as I was the only left handed girl ( didn't sink in that there would be others in the future)

I'm left handed and currently only have scissors but as a child my grandfather used to buy me stuff from a shop in Brighton called "everything left handed" (I think) some practical: rulers, watch, pencil sharpener.. some that just tickled him: a clock with all the numbers going round the wrong way 😆

I used to have a left handed cheque book and tried left handed fountain and calligraphy pens but never got on with them

I have nothing but think I will invest, it never occurred to me why I always ended up with cork in wine! That and when we had the fridge door left opening, everyone who visited said it was wrong, wrong to them not to me! I’m off to investigate what I’m missing, a left handed ruler might be needed!

Nope. I'd find left handed products weird.
I think left handed people are generally better at using their non dominant hand as we've had to adapt. I think I had those scissors with the green and yellow handles at school. That's it

I never even realised there were so many left handed things! I just assumed I was just rubbish at cutting bread etc. I’m now wondering if the bottle opener in our bar at work is left handed because I’m the only person that seems to be able to use it without grumbling!

@StCharlotte

Mugs are annoyingly right handed.

I only buy mugs with a repeatable pattern all the way round, because it irks me not to have the "nice side" in the proper place on the outside

Im 60 and have got to this age with no LH versions of anything. I am very clumsy though which may be related to using every day objects in the wrong hand

I’m now wondering if the bottle opener in our bar at work is left handed because I’m the only person that seems to be able to use it without grumbling!

I remember reading a tale of someone who had a left handed bottle opener and would pull it out a parties as then tell people they were drunk as they couldn't work it.

DD is left handed, the amount of tin openers she’s broken is unbelievable! I now have spares!

She has left handed scissors and a paper slicer for school work.

She ducks out of polishing as the duster is right handed apparently, as is the vacuum, the mop is impossible apparently.

OP, I noticed you mentioned a left handed fountain pen. Unless you're getting a pen with a slanted nib, then you can use most fountain pens in either hand. Most standard, on-the-high-street, pens have a rounded nib, maybe even with a ball at the tip, that is suitable for either hand.

And the idea that you can't use someone else's pen as pens adapt to the person's writing style is a myth (well, mostly, it would take years to wear enough to get to that point). Pens are made to be robust, and as I write with both hands, my pens are frequently swapped from hand to hand without any problem. I only don't let other people use my pens as they are liable to go walkabout.

Left handed cheque book, potato peeler, dressmaking scissors here. Also used to have a LH corkscrew.