Adult mittens wearers - how are they not inconvenient?
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Anonymous
| I love my mittens! I am still able to open doors, lock doors and pick things up. That doesn't seem like a mittens issue. The only thing I can't do is text, but I can't do that with gloves either. |
Anonymous
Op here. I hear these responses but how does one twist locks to their doors or open anything like this?!
These are the style I am seeing everywhere. |
Anonymous
My locks are electronic. I push a button. I switched to lever sets on the exterior doors. It's OK to use modern conveniences. |
Anonymous
JFC how many doors are you locking/unlocking on your daily walks? It takes two seconds to take the mitten off. |
Anonymous
| They're soft and flexible, like a puffer coat and not stiff like oven mits. There's certainly a loss of dexterity but a basic pincer grip is still doable. I usually put the second one just after leaving the house and do take one off to open the door immediately before going in but that's about it. I find myself not fussing as much with my phone (advancing songs, skipping podcasts, etc) but for me that's a feature not a bug. |
Anonymous
| I wear the kind with flip back mittens so my fingers are free when needed. |
Anonymous
| What are you doing that requires gloves or mittens and also requires finger dexterity for more than just a few seconds every now and then? If I’m walking the dog, for example, I lock the door behind me and then put on the mittens. We then walk for 10-30 minutes and I only need to take off one mitten for 30 seconds to bag some poop. Otherwise I can do everything I need to do with mittens on until we’re back. Similarly, I can walk to the metro and only need my fingers to lock the front door when I leave and to pull out my card when I get there. Mittens are warmer than gloves and I don’t miss having separate fingers at all. |
Anonymous
I love that this was the first response 
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Anonymous
I mean, you still have some movement of your fingers inside the mitten. I can easily lock my indoor lock, use my car clicker (with my thumb), open the car door, and probably start the car with mittens on. Locking the door to the house with a key would be trickier, but I could still do it. I have the Burton snowboarder mittens that come with inside gloves and the mittens have a elastic wristband feature so your mittens hang off your wrists if you need to pop them off. |
Anonymous
| Keeping my fingers warm trumps everything else for me. Obviously if you really need your fingers at all times mittens don’t work. |
Anonymous
It also seems to be more common in adolescent girls now too. With gloves, you're keeping the heart in each finger. If you have Raynaud's, there is no heat, so you need mittens. |
Anonymous
| I like mittens that flip open at the palm to expose fingers wearing thin gloves. |
Anonymous
Please show us the link for your super-duper mittens. |
Anonymous
| I wear mittens because my fingers get really cold, even in the warmest gloves. I put rechargeable hand warmers inside the mittens when I go for a long dog walk and my fingers stay toasty. I don't mind having to take the mitten off for 20 seconds to pick up after the dog. I also clutch the hand warmer inside the mitten the whole time so I do not use the thumb part of the mitten. I wish they would make thumb-less mittens for this purpose. |
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