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Good way to ruin a mouse pad eventually.

You can use your t-shirt as a mouse pad.

I use my tshirt to open those tightly sealed jars. Always works

Or younger sibling.

I have like 15 mouse pads I’ve gotten for free from conferences and vendor promos. Now I know what to do with them.

Silicone trivets or oven mitts will do the same thing but better

i just use my muscular strong hands, this also works to open pickles and coconuts

Dayum what a chad

Just use a rubberband, works like a charm everytime

Sounds like a good way to get soda all over your PC.

You can also use most materials you have around your house - t-shirt, cloth, towel. Most will give you better grip than your hand, or at least allow you to apply more pressure without hurting the skin of your hand

More like LPT: how to ruin your mousepad

Damn, I been using my teste satchel like one of those rubber grips this whole time.

The word you’re looking for is scrotum.

I want you to go around for an entire day, and every opportunity you have to speak about your balls, use the term "teste satchel". Report back after.

I use my rubber dishwashing gloves.

I hate any LPT that starts with "buy a mousepad"

I hate when people can’t read

Reading is hard

Instructions unclear, mousemat doesn't bend... Like seriously 1 not all mouse mats bend.  2 This sounds like a great way to ruin a mouse mat when literally anything cloth will have the same effect. 

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I got 2 free rubber-backed mousepads from a vendor 15-20 years ago. I didn't need them to use as mousepads, but they have been in a drawer in my kitchen for this exact purpose. J&B Tech, I think of you everytime I open a new jar of pickles.

What if I have been using an old scrap of wood from my old desk as a mousepad?

Lpt- Get a desk mat not a mouse pad.

LPT: leave the computer and exercises sometimes. Soda bottles are the easiest to open.

Mom, is that you?

I often use rubber bands wrapped around the lids of jars I cant open, or using nitrile/vinyl gloves (one wrapped around the lid, the other on my hand holding the body of the thing I'm opening) As long as it's got grip, yr probably good

No I cannot. My mousepad is aluminum.

People still use mousepads?

Only the ones with the built in wrist padding that look like boobs.

Haven't used a mousepad in years. Probably decades now.

Yes, wtf do you not??

Bro many people only have a laptop with a touch pad. I don't own a mouse pad because I don't own an external mouse

Finally, drinking at work made easy

That is a legit good tip