What’s the Small Round Hole on Your Nail Clipper For?

Group Clippers Together

You can also stick small clippers together by a small ring if you have two different ones for fingernails & toenails (or when you have clippers in different sizes). This ways, they’re concentrated and you won’t jumble them together.

Why Nail Clippers Were Designed This Way

The original nail clipper that we know was invented in the late 19th century, and has undergone a number of design updates to evolve into the modern tool we use today. Most cheapo clippers, however, have been doing this with that little round hole. Why? It’s not really about the enhanced durability, though, it’s more that it’s an easy, productive approach to portable play. The hole enables the clipper to be kept on a keychain or lanyard, a potent sign of functionality in an era before household bathrooms were widespread and people took their grooming implements with them, like wallets or handkerchiefs.

Nail Clippers

Nail clippers are one of those things we barely give a second thought. But when you start looking, it’s hard to miss how much range you have to choose. Some clippers are equipped with nail files, and others come with bottle openers or small knives when included in a multi-tool.

It’s a tiny thing, the nail clipper, but believe it or not, you can’t do much better than this in the design and versatility department. The hole in the handle is just a tiny detail that makes it that much more useful. Grandpa was quite impressed when I explained to him all of this.

Many of us may not have given much thought to that small round hole on the nail clipper, which is understandable, because come on it’s just a nail clipper. But as with so much in life, the little things can end up mattering a lot.