A handy tip for opening stuck jar lids is to put a rubber band around the lid and the added grip lets you open it.

So why not just make the lids with a rubber edge so that they shouldn't be too hard to open in the first place?
-- liamdelahunty, Feb 22 2003

(?) In the mean time... http://cj.catalogci...csyn=22&pcd=4972685
[DrCurry, Oct 04 2004]

translate DrC - the idea is excellent, cannot find anything baked or half-baked so nitpick on the title.

I agree with the hotdoc, it should be 'even a girl can open this jar lid'. +1 neat idea.
-- po, Feb 22 2003


A band I was in waybackwhen considered and rejected the name "Rubber Husband".
-- waugsqueke, Feb 22 2003


rubber band?
-- po, Feb 22 2003


This is, quite frankly, mega.

[Later: just checked your site, liam. Have you been secretly controlling my word choice with a top secret remote word choice control device?]
-- my face your, Feb 22 2003


Is that synonomous with "condom cohabitator" [waugs]?
-- bristolz, Feb 23 2003


It was a common name for those rubber jar openers.
-- waugsqueke, Feb 23 2003


Not just rubber; the lid should have a countoured grip.

If a jar lid's stuck on through a vacuum, I get out the centre-punch and a pin hammer. <pfffffft> And then I reseal the small hole with a bit of tape.
-- FloridaManatee, Feb 23 2003


MFY, you should post that as a separate idea, then use it to make the annos read in the opposite sense to the votes. That'd confuse 'em.
-- egbert, Feb 23 2003



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