Hands age like the rest of us, especially if they ache with arthritis. I've tried various methods, when all else fails I present them to hubby. We do finally manage!

All of the below mentioned and firstly finding some specs to read the tiny writing on each individual different instructions on these things.. my other pet hate is opening the plastic ring pulls off things like a bottle of cooking oil.. Firstly wrestle unscrewing the new lid at times then finding the sealed plastic ring pull under that..and the ring just rips off in your hand!! So out comes the knife so I can just stab a hole into it grrrrr Edited 13-Mar-23 14:24pm

Sometimes the child proof things are the ones I have my kids open for me!!

i have trouble getting the lids off!

Yes, it can be hard, but can be done, or they would not still sell these products. If you go to Google, search engine, they actually give instructions on how to open child proof containers. It shows illustrations as well. Go look it up!

I manage, I don't ask people to open things for me. Use a bit of strength or use an object to help open it.Edited 12-Mar-23 22:49pm

If only they were just childproof - they seem to be hard for all of us apart from children to open!

I don't know, but I know my son (who is now 18) at 3 years old got into a child proof Tylenol bottle. It was put up out of his reach, but he was sneaky. I was also pregnant with my 3rd child and feeling horrible, so I was laying down. Still keeping an eye on him, but I must have dozed longer than 3 minutes. He got into it and started eating the Tylenol. I had to rush him to the emergency room and they said it was close to being lethal to him. It didn't matter how much I childproofed and took all precautions.

I pass them to my partner to open but the worst are hospital grade cleaning liquids, mouthwash and certain medicine for children.

Child proof lids drive me crazy !! BUT ! I understand how important they are.

Actilax by far the worst bottle

Mouthwash bottles

Easy for kids, not so much for adults 😂

All of them. What would I do without my kids to delid things for me???

I hate the squeeze and turn ones....

I just tested myself by opening a unopened container of duck bleach. The instructions said squeeze down on the sides of the tabs, I did that but it wouldn't move, so I got a (towel)and then it was more easier to get a better grip to open it. Obviously they made it harder to open so kids don't get into it.

Not just for kids has anyone trying to open a Harpic Toilet Cleaner Bottle

the older i get means all of them.

Definitely the pushdown and squeeze bottle tops, especially when they are on too tight in the first place.

Lids on bottles of Methylated Spirits and Turpentine. Near impossible.

My problem is the little tab inside the lid. They have tiny little bits that you can't possibly get off so I end up stabbing them with a knife or skewer. They are turning up on all sorts of things now, sauce, hand cream, shampoo. I don't know if it's about tamperproof but it certainly keeps me entertained trying to prise them off.

I have a 21/2 year old who has no problem, but Nani is a whole different story!! Just keep out or each,, like when we were kids.

Childproof sometimes means 'Rodproof'.

Jam jars, sauce bottle lids, medication bottles, bleach and toilet products. I understand the concept of them, But that doesn't stop the anger from flowing freely!

They can be difficult to get off

Some are just everyone proof. When I was young my grandparents and mother would get me to open things with child proof lids or airtight sealed as they couldn't (arthritis). Worst are turpentine, some jam jars are horrible to open.and those oil bottles with the seal and internal ring pull seal (that always breaks).

I had cough medicine and trying to get that off wasn't funny

I think they should be called adult proof because most children can open them.

I don't use them often enough to comment.

some are not only childproof but adult proof which are very hard to open

They are also Old people lids...with arthritic hands or fingers - impossible.

Hopeless for aged or arthritic hands. What was wrong with locking the cleaners in a cupboard.

The ones you use most often!

I'm pro safety lids, but some of them are hard to open even for adults

I don't have afrthritis in my hands (yet), but the last year or so my hands are just not strong enough to do the push squeeze turn trick all at the same time. When I finally get someone to open them for me I do not close them properly, and even though have no small children in cooee I still keep them on a high shelf in the laundry, though the toilet ones I do keep behind the toilet. One of the woes of getting old.

Agree Kirsty . I have trouble with those bottles. Don’t know how old people with arthritis get on or maybe they don’t buy them.

If you have no children in the house or visiting then what is the point. However, we did not have these child proof lids when I had my 3 young children. I did this. I got down on my hands and knees and looked around every room. Where I found anything a danger to the children I fixed it, adjusted it, locked it, etc. When in use I kept it well out of their reach and I always had a gate across my kitchen area so they could not get in to the oven etc. Laundry was always locked and I had a latch on the toilets and bathrooms also so they could not get into these products at all. There are ways around things if one uses common sense to keep them safe.

There are a lot of lids that are hard to get off by adults

i tried to child proof our house but they still got in

Exactly what you have written Kirsty; the smaller the lid (with the push down and turn device), the harder it seems to open .....

Child proof lids only reenforce our inner child

Omg even opening a Barbie is child proof lol

The same with nasal allergy spray, you can't open the container, just spray contents into nose.

had the same problems a number of times, too expensive to break and too much time cosuming to try

When we were in Canada we were camping in a national park and the park had bear proof bins. I was 12 at the time and there was no way I could get the lid open. Yes it can be very frustrating but they are on there for a reason. My parents were in Apex when I was a kid and my parents knew of a little girl who swallowed soap or ate some thing she shouldn't like a dishwasher powder disc and she had burnt all the inside of her throat. Had to have a huge amount of operations so if you do get a child proof lid off and you don't put it back on just make sure it is out of reach of little people because they are just unaware of the possible dangers of swallowing some thing bad. They just think it could be a lolly or a soft drink and they taste it, then the damage is done and it can be very quick too.

If you were to ask my wife she will say all of it as I have to open all the lids for her and she always says that the makers of such products should have a tool for adults to open them.

I can never open those child-proof locks. So I take them to a toddler down the road who opens the for me!

dont buy child proof, buy ordinary and keep in locked cupboard. SIMPLE. There are options, You might have to get someone to open and keep in a different bottle that you can us. dont let the idiots get you down

Not all products that are child lock proof are hard to open. What is wrong with people today, so many unfit and can't use their hands properly.. How the hell then do people mangage to cut up meat and vegetables, or whatever? Go and do some wood chopping and strengthen your arms and hands. People don't do enough physical activities and that's why they start to lose strength in their limbs after a certain age. This seems to be a mostly western disease and it's even effecting people that are not really that old yet. I can open most things eventually... even if it's a bit hard at first, the worst is some jars or cordial bottles... can be put on too tightly, but I wrap a tea towel around the top and usually it budges...or put between the door hedges and twist, and, hey presto, it opens up. Years ago I opened up a bottle of something with my teeth.

I agree with Kirsty being older and with arthritis and find the toilet cleaners almost impossible to open. What happened to parents having some responsibility to make sure things are kept away from children

None as they are all misnamed they are actually ADULT PROOF LIDS which almost any child can open at will.

Childproof lids are a real pain to deal with and should not be required when there are no children in the house.

child proofing should simply be putting stuff out of their way

I have the feeling that there really are non”child proof “ lids, only adult proof ones.

We have trouble with weed killer, takes me a few goes. But I think that's for the best.

No such thing , any 5 year old can get them off ..

These child proof lids become elder proof lids as you get older……..lol

Exit Mould

The ones where you have to push down real hard as you twist and at that only a certain point on the top will engage the open groove. Totally everybody proof, especially when you have severe deformed and rheumatic hands (and every other joint). It's been tough having any self esteem going from an attractive woman to a arthritic ridden insecure female. And not being able to open jars and other things, despite disability friendly devices, doesn't help me feel any better.😥

We have fun in our family guessing the latest child proof lid. They seem to have fiendish joy inventing them and our youngest family member is usually the one to show us the trick that opens the pesky thing!

My mother has trouble with the lid on the white king lid! I usually have to open it for her.🙄

Sometimes it's a struggle but I prefer them to be child proof.

sometimes I struggle to open these

I call them adult proof with some of them 🤣

Some are harder than others, but I struggle with most of them with my arthritis fingers.

I have no problem with child proof lids I just ask the kids to open them for me.

Nose spray, I have arthritis and can not get them off, thankfully my husband can. My granddaughter at a very young age got one open and drank some thank gd she was fine.

there are a menise at my age i can,t get them of i understand about kids but i need easy to open them now please

buy your self a hacksaw just cut them off unless you have kids then go next door and ask the nice old man to tke it off

SOMETIMES WHEN I OPEN THE LID ITS HARD AND I CANT OPEN THE LID SO I CALL MY HUSBAND BARRY TO OPEN THE LID

Any of them, my hands just do what they were made to do any more. The silly things if I can't open I ask a kid to do it for me!!! Why can't parents just teach kids boundaries. I raised 5 kids long before "Child proof lids" and none ever got into the nasties. They knew they could play with the things in the pot cupboard, but not the dish wash cupboard!!

I really don’t like cleaning

adultproof. use white vinegar, dont put toxins in society

toilet cleaner is near impossible for me to open as I have arthritis in my hands. Have to get my neighbour to help.

I have problems with the container tops on Vick’s liquid meds. I twist, crunch not pinch iso that I can get past the barrier. My hands don’t always have the strength to crush the sides of the lids enough so I often use pliers to get the lid off.

I used to deliver meals on wheels, the lids on the desert container was always difficult for the elderly and I had to open them and put them in the fridge. That was a clip on lid. Child proof lids were beyond these people.

I agree: these are often adult proof lids. Also, as many people become older and they lost their ability to grip or just plain power in their hands, these things become impossible to undo and people often resort to slicing them with knives etc in order to open them.

Opening battery plastic blister packs.

Tide pods zippy opening ones-yeesh!

Borax containers, impossible!

For me, most container lids are not just child proof but adult proof.

It's really important

Not "child proof", but the tin cans with the pull tab lids are often extremely difficult to open. :-(

Just those that Kirsty mentions and really are they as effective as claimed? Is it not that they are so difficult to get off the first time that people simply do not close them fully? Isn't the best way really to keep these products up high and preferably in a cupboard which has a push-button opener high up on one side so that small children cannot reach nor are strong enough to press the button?

I used to buy products with child proof lids when my child was little in order to him keep from reaching it.

There is no such thing as long as the childproof part works, that's the important part.

They are all easy if you know how. Just stop. Relax. And apply motor skills.

Kids can open anything. How about actually watching your kids so they don't get into things. It is amazing how we all survived before all these safety measures. Also, keep things out of reach. Not rocket science people.

If they do it right, they are wrong, if they do it wrong, thae are still wrong

As I attempt to get the lid off some Advil, you ask this. I think many food and medicine containers are difficult for anyone with arthritis i their fingers, hands or wrists.

I always ask the cashier at the supermarket to open them for me. If they won't, I don't buy the product. I have a swiss jar opener which is brilliant.

Like many other members on here, I have the problems with the same child proof items. I have even found laundry detergent, fabric softener bottles an issue. Prescription eye drop bottles as I have asked my male neighbor to twist and my husband and they have had issues. No children around, just leave the cap off or untwist!

HARD TO OPEN

THEY ARE A GOOD THING TO HAVE AROUND IF YOU HAVE SMALL LIDS

medicine bottles and detergent bottles

Medicine

I know my elderly mother has never been able to open the tops. Once I open it for her she leaves it off also.

'CHILDPROOF' is a misnomer for 'ADULTPROOF! Anything that says 'CHILDPROOF' in the directions - I despite with a passion. It will stop an adult for opening it - but will not 'stop or slow down' a child from opening the item. I am at the point - where anything that says "CHILDPROOF.' - in the directions - I SOLVE that problem by refusing to buy the item (PERIOD). In my humble opinion (HAHA), the worst offender is -:'squeeze while pushing down and turning' (RIGHT) - which I have found (personally) biological impossible for me to accomplish - I end up using an electrical knife to cut off the upper part of the plastic container!Edited 12-Mar-23 16:00pm

There is no such thing as a childproof It is only adults that have problem getting lids off

They maybe should do away with childproofing for seniors. As long as the older people can keep the drugs safely hidden from grandkids.