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MICHELLE CREEDY: Here are your Tips and Tricks
for Everyday Living.
I'm Michelle Creedy, and I'm here at my kitchen
table.
Sighted people often get very worried about
how
somebody who is blind or partially sighted
is going to use a knife safely, but it's actually
a lot easier
than you may think.
One of the techniques that I find really helpful
is to hold my finger on top of the blade
so I feel exactly where I'm cutting.
And it's helpful to make smaller cuts.
So in front of me, I have a cucumber on a
cutting board,
and I have a knife.
My right hand is holding the handle of the
knife,
and my fingers of my left hand are on top
of the blade.
So you can feel exactly what that knife is
doing.
Just make small cuts as you go along.
And then I always put the knife back where
I know where it is.
So for me, I like to line it up against the
right-hand side
edge of the board.
The handle is pointing always toward me
so that I know when I reach out for the board
that I can actually just grab the knife.
The same goes for when I put the knife in
the drawer.
I will always put the handles facing the front
of the drawer.
Now, scissors are one of those things that
people
can be very concerned about when it comes
to someone who
is blind or partially sighted.
There's a few things you can do to be safe.
I have a pair of scissors here in my right
hand,
and I've got a piece of paper here in my left
hand.
Now, the trick when you're cutting with scissors
is just open them a little way, and then put
whatever you're going to cut between the two
blades.
So you want to make small cuts.
My left hand, I have my fingers on top of
the blade,
and my thumb is at the bottom of the scissors
resting
under that blade.
And I'm just going to do some small little
cuts.
And as the blade moves, I'm also moving my
fingers
so I can feel where I'm cutting, staying well
away
from the bottom blade.
And now I have a little strip of paper that
I've cut.
Thanks for joining us on Tips and Tricks for
Everyday Living.
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