Singlehood

[bertine]

In my short list of things I don't like about being single I have another one:

5. Having no one to open jars for me. I broke my hand a long time ago and I have a weak grip with it. This is usually fine except I don't remember where I put the vice-grips and last night I had to knock on my neighbor's door to ask them if they could open my bottle.

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[absenthine.livejournal.com]

Here's an easy-peasy single girl trick for opening jars:

Most really tricky jar lids have a seal of wax around the inside, and once you break that seal, the lid opens easily. I hold the jar so that the lid is perpendicular to the edge of my kitchen counter. Then, I bang the lid, at a 45-degree angle to the counter (i.e. so the point of the side of the lid hits the counter) until I break the seal. Sometimes, you have to rotate the jar lid around until you feel the seal break. This process resembles the process of banging the lid back on a can of paint a little.

This works for jars that have already been opened, too, but not quite as well. But since you're the only person in your house, hopefully you don't put lids on so tight that you can't get them open again.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Actually this was a bottle of Target Blood Orange Italian Soda. So it was a glass bottle with a narrow neck and I just can't get my hand to grip hard when something is that narrow. Hence the vice-grips that usually live in my kitchen drawer.

I can usually get regular jars open using pretty much the same technique as you described above.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

It is so good. I love that stuff.

[absenthine.livejournal.com]

blood orange Italian soda? yum!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Target has it and I love it.