• Spot@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      I squirrel away things I find through the year to ease my winter burden. The hard part for me is not giving the things right away so I don’t have to go buy something else. My SO especially has a hard time remembering that that gift in June WAS Xmas, so no, we are not spending bunches of money on whatever it is you want now. When we hit the lottery, then we can do both.

      • Spot@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        And too many people try to hand over ambi/lefty Grip scissors and think they are the same. I’ve tried to explain the blade flip to other people who look at me like I’m insane or try to explain back to me how it’s impossible. If I hadn’t gone to an awesome elementary school with an overstocked art room I would have never encountered them. They even had little blunted ones for kids, but it was the 80’s so we used the sharps anyway.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          My mom bought me some for school because she figured out I couldn’t use normal scissors. I was also doing occupational therapy for some other child health issues so my parents were very attentivenat the time. This was during the mid 2000s.

          • Spot@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            Awesome on mom! They were a lil pricy back in the day so I didn’t get my own till a few years ago (after cutting open a damn cat toy package and having to go get stitches). Figured someone like Walmart or Amazon has to have them cheaper nowadays. And they did.

  • poppy@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    These or something similar are perfect, as a lefty.

    Edit: but for the love of god don’t pay that much. I think they’re like $5-7 in store.

  • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    With all the political talk on social media I was so confused what being a lefty had to do with cutting wrapping paper lol

    Doh!

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    I’m in my mid 20s and still can’t use normal scissors due to how left handed I am lmao. Left handed, left footed, left eye dominant. Even the left side of my face is more handsome 💀

    • porthos@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Have you ever tried just using the scissors in a mirror? That should flip them around so that they work

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Most scissors have a smaller top handle for your thumb, so when you flip it around, that small handle becomes the one the rest of your fingers are supposed to fit in, which makes it very difficult to use.

  • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Okay for those of you who don’t have an electric clipper—> open the blades all the way and rock the paper along the blade a moment, you’ll eventually find a spot that lets you glide through the paper.

    • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      I’m a lefty so this may be incorrect but I think you also want to keep good tension on the paper while you do it. If that’s not a thing, then oops. Sometimes the glide works, the other 80% it bunches up about halfway through so I tend to try a few times then just give up. Also I assume it works opened more because the scissors tend to be sharper closer to the handle where they’re less used, in case that helps anyone figure out the sweet spot. So just do what usual leftys do, make the contact between scissor blades pull together with a good grip, have a nice tension on the paper and push it through slowly. Then get annoyed when it rips after it working once.