Join the Left Handers Club
About the Left Handers Club
We started The Left Handers Club back in 1990 in response to requests from customers to produce a newsletter and campaign on behalf of left-handers. Our aims from the beginning were to get more left-handed products made and raise awareness of the issues facing left-handers – particularly left-handed children in school.
Our Newsletters
Our newsletters are sent out once or twice a month and cover a wide range of topics to do with being left-handed including:
- Latest research and reports on left-handedness
- Our own surveys and analysis
- Latest product information and explanations of left-handed items, plus member discounts and offers
- Highlighting the things left-handers do differently
- Picking up on language, customs and myths about left-handers
We try our best to entertain members as well as providing useful and interesting information and resources. Use this link to see an index with links to our past newsletters
Backwards Calendar
Left-Handers Club membership is completely free and as a member you will receive our unique “backwards” calendar, with days running right to left – which left-handers often find easier to read .
Member Certificate
You will also get access to a free Membership Certificate which you can personalise with your own name for printing.
We value your privacy and will never give out, lease or sell any of your personal details. All newsletters contain an unsubscribe link which you can click to remove yourself if you wish, although not many people do!
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Btw my Road Name is: Lefty
Yes I'm a leftie and proud. My mum told me that when I started to write, my grandma dud all in her power to 'correct it to the right hand. Mum said no, and here I am ...proud to be left and mum of a leftie too!
My right hand/arm does the strength work/ lifting, ironing, my handbag goes over my right shoulder, but my left hand does the fine work - writing, putting on make up etc. It's fascinating how we're all different but the same!
At 52 I’ve only just discovered you
Good time to you from Ukraїna!
Моє ім'я Мирослава і я лівша!
My name is Myroslava (Мир - peace,Слава - glory)
і дуже пишаюся, що моя мама зберегла цю мою унікальність в умовах рядянщини!
and I am very proud that my mother preserved this uniqueness of mine in the conditions of Ryadyanshchyna!
Щаслива приєднатися до вас!
Happy to join you!
Як чудово, що ви створили таку ініціативу!!!
How wonderful that you have created such an initiative!!!
Я давненько хочу популяризувати тему про лівшів у своїй країні!
I have long wanted to popularize the topic of left-handed people in my country!
Дякую вам
Thank you
Myroslava Van'ko with ❤️
For years I shy-ed away from the kitchen
As a left handed woman and my mom did help much except forcing me to use a scissors and knitting right handed.
My first grandchild a boy is left handed.
I really don't want him to struggle
My name is Jo Anne from the USA and I am a left handed person who writes with the paper tilting towards the left (as a right handed person would) this making is appear that I write upside down. This has been such a handicap my entire life of 53 years and now to mention that I often just don’t compute what I read or what I hear because I just don’t think there is one way to understand it. I’m hoping that this club might be a place for me and that there are others who write “upside down too”.
The small parochial school I was attending did not have any left-handed sizzors. I was about to fail paper cutting and Mom would not allow it.
"Left-handers are the only people in their right minds"
Difficult to get people to teach me to crochet but I can knit anything although people look at me and can't work out what I am doing.
I checked if you were still around after telling my wife about you. I remember you from back in the day when I used to shop in Carnaby St. I played in a Band called Jason Crest in
'67/'68 whose records are now selling for big money;google 'em! Funny that, nobody was buying them them when we were trying make a living!!
Anyway I'm only telling you this 'cos I'm a left handed drummer. Rare breed, me. Phil Collins is a lefty and there ARE others but not too many!!
Best regards
Roger
I remember when I started playing baseball, it was difficult for my father to find a right handed glove. Finally, he found one.
oh the trouble ive had adjusting to this right handed world.
employment knock back, secretarial adjustments, learning hobbies ect
even stapling papers together I staple on the right and get stirred at work for it
Thank you; I would like to join!
When I found out that my Grandson was left-handed, I taught him how to write his name as he had the same initials as me and was struggling with how to hold his pen.
When I started school in the early 50's, I would not do anything as I was not allowed to use my left hand, they soon relented when they spoke to my mother at the end of the first week.
I now have a two and a half year old granddaughter who is also left- handed, and like me, has been from the very beginning.
I'll be teaching her how to hold a pen/pencil correctly and how to tie her shoes like I do. So much to look forward to, including your newsletters and other information.
Thank you for all you do!
I shall look forward to your newsletters
Being left handed it is easy to start in the back and go forward.
My stepson and I were both left handed the majority of the implements in the kitchen were left handed - even the kettle had the handle pointing to the left side!
We discovered that because my husband had already adapted to using most of the items in the kitchen left handed he was able to recover more quickly. That was until I told the physiotherapist that he wasn’t using his right hand and the reason why!
I first brought something from anything left handed way back when the shop was in Beak St! You could say I’m an old customer.......
My daughter and I (she’s one of 4) are both lefties. You’d think they all would have been as both us parents were lefties.
I didn’t realise there were calendars like that fabulous!
Society fails too often to realize how many left handed people there are in the world. One in every ten people are left handed. Unfortunately we suffer daily with equality of life and the acknowledgment of our existence.
Left-handed people have been deliberately discriminated and discouraged for centuries. We have been considered witches, demons of the devil, unlucky, malicious, dishonest and clumsy. We have been forced to use the right hand in every form of daily life. We are not stupid or clumsy we fight with right handed equipment everyday. Tie your right hand behind your back and do all tasks with you left hand for 25 minute see if you feel the awkwardness.
As a left handed person I never spoke out about the indifference until the last few years. Most left handers choose not to elaborate on short comings. It is time for acceptance. If it were any other minority this would not even be an issue. Show awareness and compassion to those you know who are left handed.
Neurodiversity isn’t a disease to be cured.
#SouthpawsShine
There's even more to the story ... Although I eat with my left hand and write with my left hand, that's about all that I do with my left hand.
I can't throw a ball with my left hand, nor much of anything else with it. Some people have said that I am not left-handed - I am ambidextrous - which means that I can use both hands equally well. But that's not true ... I can't eat or write well at all with my right hand and I can't throw a ball or anything else with my left hand!
I'm just plain strange! (lol) I've don't need all of those left-handed gizmos, as I don't need them - I use all of the tools the same way that I right-handed person does.
I have high blood pressure and I have read that if I were to ever have a major stroke, my other side would be able to take over much more easily than most people, because of this. Apparently, I am left-handed but right-brained!
Does anyone else share this with me? I have three children who were all born right-handed too. I am the misfit in my family for sure! ... (lol)
I'm Mohanrao Gade from India.
I'm also lefty.
Happy left handed day.
Proud to be a lefty.
I do not know if you, or your wife, will remember me, but I joined the club ages ago. I remember you on Eggheads (BBC2). Unfortunately, before more modern and stable technology like Google I relied on individual service providers like Tiny, FreeServe, AOL or Tiscali for e-mail. Inevitably, they ran out or expired.
Therefore, is there any way you could check your records and see when I first joined? Now I am following you on FaceBook and Twitter.
PS: Happy International Left Hander's Day (2019)
Many thanks for your help.
Am always unique in whatever I am doing due to left hander trait.
The organization is also committed to empowering left handed members, showing commitment to their personal goals. This is a collective project
It carries no man's name, but a common identity,which is our left handedness.
The organization shall be registered under the name "The Left Handers Club Nigeria ". Thank you.
I purchased a ruler with your address and I still use it!!
I am so impressed I am going to order just about everything you sell and have a left-fest!
Thank you. I wish you also sold power tools, like drills. The torque is dangerous.
I wonder now, if being left handed is the reason I like to read a magazine from back to front? Hmmm
6 9 1 9 3 8 =36 ---3 6 =9 divided by 3=3
My parents dad 3 children 2 girls 1 boy
I had 3 children 2 girls 1boy
My daughter had 2girls 1 boy
It has also been suggested that I am an INDIGO person. Need I go on ?
What I can be proud of it , is that I'm left handed and I'm born on 13 August 1980 the same day is national day of women in my country . Such an amazing coincidence .
I noticed my results of my test. I'm proud of being left handed, I've been through some bad times and problems with this. One time a teacher told me she would fail me if I didn't switch hands. She kept giving me low scores because she knew me by my name and knew I was the left handed one. Then one time a friend who was right handed, I asked since we had a report to do. Could he write his and don't sign it, and I'd do the same. That Monday came around we checked and we did what I asked. Then we both laid them on her desk, she read both of them very clear. them she wondered who wrote these, after that he signed his and I signed mine. She couldn't believe one of those was mine. then I told her afterwards, don't you ever say you couldn't read my writing at all
Please excommunicate me if I am not eligible for your club, but do remember that if I am accepted you will be heaping revenge on our departed cheesemaker/cook. Amy was her name if you wish to insert pointed objects into dolls on my behalf.
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Personally I am assured that all LEFTIES have Superior Intelligence, Spatial Awareness and a Higher Degree of ESP. My nickname that stuck to me in my time in RAF, Bomber Command 1960's ,during the Cold War Cuban Missile Crisis as a ground crew Radio Coms/ECM Technicin probably sums up my nature as a KRAKATOAN. Highly Volatile but Decisive and Specific.
THIS WORLD NEEDS A MASSIVE INCREASE IN LEFTIES , PARTICULARLY INTELLIGENT LIBERATED YOUNG WOMEN !!!
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Personally I am assured that all LEFTIES have Superior Intelligence, Spatial Awareness and a Higher Degree of ESP. My nickname that stuck to me in my time in RAF, Bomber Command 1960's ,during the Cold War Cuban Missile Crisis as a ground crew Radio Coms/ECM Technicin probably sums up my nature as a KRAKATOAN. Highly Volatile but Decisive and Specific.
THIS WORLD NEEDS A MASSIVE INCREASE IN LEFTIES , PARTICULARLY INTELLIGENT LIBERATED YOUNG WOMEN !!!
http://blog.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/lhc/certificate
Thanks for providing this website for the most over-looked minority in the world!
Margie
That got me to thinking about any reference to left handedness in movies. I could only think of one: In DESK SET, with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Tracy notices that one of the secretaries is left-handed. He comments that the office set up is wrong for her, and that the desks should be reversed to allow her better advantage of sunlight.
Do other examples pop to mind, for anyone else??
Kind regards,
Anthony Strefford
My mom is left-handed and so is my elder sister. I do thank God for it and pray i do have left handed children because left-handed people rock!!!!!!!!!
So Thank you so much for discover this site.
If you are lefty then you must join this club. Good Luck.
also my left hand teaches me that we should think differently........
MY MOTHER ONCE TIED MY HAND FOR TWO MONTHS WHEN I WAS STILL YOUNG, BUT THE DAY SHE LET ME FREE..., I STARTED TO PICK A PIECE OF MEAT WITH MY LEFT HAND
and there is where she knew that i will never change..
I LOVE BEING THAT WAY.
Your right hand isn't for show (that was funny though) it's for carrying things while your left hand does all the important stuff.
Moses
lynx
To give you some idea of how things have changed during my life, I was never stopped from using my left hand at school but when I went to college to become a teacher, I was not allowed to write on the blackboard with my left hand.
The small scissors were for my grandson who is left handed. I well understood his frustration with scissors as I can remember having the same problems at 5 years old. I have not used my dressmaking scissors yet.
I tried to join the club but the site could not be found
it not easy to be left handed but i am glad to be one
thanks.
i m proud to be left handed........and happy!
so congratulations!!! this website it is execelent!!! and really amazing!!
see you!!!
Matias.
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