I think I had an “a-ha!” moment yesterday. I was reading on the Anything Left Handed website, that many left handers think that they have adapted to the right handed world, but when they try truly left handed products, life is so much easier for them. Conversely, when right handed people use left handed products they find out how difficult it is for left handed people to use right handed products.
There was some info about left handed scissors, and how when using right handed scissors, left handed people don’t have the same control or dexterity as right handed people. I was thinking about how when cutting anything paper or cardboard, I automatically want to use my craft knife rather than scissors. I find that I have infinitely more control of a knife than scissors. (At uni I studied Graphic Design. One of my lecturers was so impressed with my cutting skills in my model-making subject that she nicknamed me “tricky fingers”.)
It made me wonder whether if I used left handed scissors, maybe I would find cutting MUCH easier? Is that why I have always preferred using a knife rather than scissors, wherever possible?
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Wait until you cut a slice of bread with a left-handed bread knife. And then get a right hander to try using it!
I’ve got all kinds of left-handed stuff – even a ruler where you measure from right to left.
Hi Carole,
So its true about the knives, is it? On the Anything Left Handed website they had two pictures: one of a leftie using a right handed knife to cut bread (and it going REALLY crooked) and one of a leftie using a left handed knife, with it going lovely and straight.
Given there are two left handed people in this household, maybe we need to make a few investments in left handed products. Why should half the house be at a disadvantage?!
Thanks for the personal testimony, Carole. Great to hear!