Daft little things that seem impossible

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Mine is when you get some medication from the Doctor and read the patient information leaflet in the packet. It is impossible to fold it back up again like how it came out! I’ve never managed it once.

Take a photo and throw it away.

Supermarket trolleys, everything goes in fine when your going round. Once you've paid its a completely different story! The stuff never fits back in the trolley.

But just recycle it after you've read it? I don't see why you'd even try to replace it!

Now that the plastic lids of milk cartons stay fastened on rather than twist off entirely when you open them, I seem to specialise in managing to pour milk into the lid while trying to aim for the jug or cup.

Getting Christmas lights back into the box they came in. Why not just make the box a teensy bit bigger to allow for them not being production packed after first use.

You could cut or break the connecting tag.

I have a whole pile of lonely, single, socks.

Where the other one goes is beyond me!

One of the reasons I don't follow through on fantasies of dumping DH and living the single life, is that I would never again be able to consume anything that comes in a jar. I work out 4x a week including gripping kettlebells and dumbells, but always have to hand jars over to be opened by a man-sized grip. It's probably saved our marriage.

Does banging the lid on the counter not help? It's always worked for me.

I use the back of a butter knife and bang around the metal on the side and top of the lid to distort it slightly. Always works for me- and I don't even work out!

@JC03745 @username299 that's it. Divorce here I come.

@DesparatePragmatist I cut a hole in the lid with a knife this let's the air out and the jar lid opens easily.

You need to (carefully) stab the lid with a very sharp knife. A vacuum has been created, which is why you can't twist the lid. Once you make a hole in the lid, the pressure is eased and the lid will unscrew easily.

Let us know if you need a divorce lawyer

They get sucked into the machine.

I whack the jar lids at an angle on my worktop. This releases the vacuum

I have a grippy thing that gets the lids off. Once I bought this, I never needed my ex husband for anything ever again!

Opening bacon packets without a knife where they say "peel"

Hot water over the rim - I make a tea the put the remnants of the kettle over. No hole in lid required!

Just use a spoon on the rim of the jar to lever the edge - and release the vacuum - no banging it and possible breaking, no stabbing with knife (which means you can reseal if needed), no pouring hot water over it and getting wet arms/scalded etc.
just make sure it's a fairly robust spoon - no thin flimsy ones (they just bend!)
so easy and safe kids can do it.:)

Probably try it a few times before you kick him out, or you could look a bit daft. When we go through a tough patch I think he wanders round the fridge and cupboards tightening all the lids up just in case.

I usually find that if you google the medicine and dosage, it will show you the paper info slip online. Much easier to read plus I then photo the bit I need to know.
Only found this out as I’m as blind as a bat and tend to do this with small print info, so I can enlarge it.

... who reads the leaflet?

it's way like "This blood Pressure medicine could cause high blood pressure"

I am LOVING all the jar lid strategies!

Mr Pragmatist will have to up his game in all non-jar arenas.

Well yes there is that 😂

Yes! I’ve never managed to open one without a knife / scissors. I use a gadget/ DH to open jars.

That’s a good idea.