Have lots of can openers...and make sure you get good ones. I made the mistake of buying some cheapie ones and they are too hard to turn.

The old 'Swing-Away' has got to be the most durable canopener in the world! Notice the word 'old'.

'taint what it used to be! I bought a new Swing-Away from Walmart (I keep threatening to do a personal boycott, but...I must be a glutton for punishment). The Swing's old logo was there but not as deeply etched as it should be. The lettering on every one of them was so faint I could barely read it. Sure enough, the thing only performed half as well as its older siblings. Walmartization at work.

I do buy a lot of the cheap $1 models, though. They're cheap enough that I usually put one in every 2nd or 3rd large box of canned goods...

My kids eat canopeners I swear. I can never find them when I need them. I have THREE swingaway canopeners. Can never find one. They are in the living room or a bed room, or on the table or on the FLOOR

So I beat them at their game. Or I let them win...whatever. I went and bought some old key type canopeners that they don't touch -- mainly because they haven't figured out how to USE THEM!

Now I always have a canopener.

Even if I don't LIKE it.

I now own 3 hand canopeners, 6 p-38 GI can openers and the electric one that is in the basement somewhere...