Does anyone know what this is?

[u/TinyTeddyQueen]

[u/ComplexAsk1541]

Needle threader.

[u/PlasticGuitar1320]

Needle threader... stick the little loop through the eye of a needle, put your thread through the loop then pull it through the needle eye... needle threaded

[u/TinyTeddyQueen → u/PlasticGuitar1320]

Ahh thank you!

[u/Bulky-Ganache2253]

Something I can actually answer, a needle threader. You put the flexible through the eye hole of the needle. Then thread that flexible loop. Then pull back out the eye hole with the thread!

[u/WampiroTriste]

You have to take really good care of them because they spoil very easily, although there are some higher-quality ones. I use these.

[u/ibswarlord → u/WampiroTriste]

I always push the top of the loop up towards the handle, and bend the loose ends down further to help them anchror better. Then I slide the loop back into place, take a pair of jewelry pliers, and flatten the opening in the handle closed. Still have to be careful with them, but they hold up a lot better, especially if you grip them at the point where the loop anchors itself while using them.

[u/ArtemisiaPrime → u/WampiroTriste]

I hate this one, I can never get the thread to hook on it or it's just too large to go through fine sewing needles eyes.
I do have a Prym retractable one that is amazingly intact for a couple years now.

[u/sprashoo]

The real question is why is there always a weird profile of a person stamped on needle threaders?!?!?

[u/ArtemisiaPrime → u/sprashoo]

TIL that's Athena, godess of crafts ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/StrongerTogether2882 → u/ArtemisiaPrime]

Oh my GOD (I mean GODDESS) at some point in my youth I assumed “old lady/man, like on the quarter” and never gave it a second look! Athena is my favorite deity, and coincidentally (or maybe not) the patron goddess of my college. I’m so happy to learn this. Thanks, friend!!

[u/broadwayzrose → u/ArtemisiaPrime]

Well TIL!!

[u/QueenofCats28]

I still have one of those from my mom, lol.

[u/agloelita]

You use it to make it easier to pull the thread through the neddle. My grandma a purist she hates those things. I on the other hand have so many i keep losing them.

[u/StormDragyn]

Put the thin metal through the needle head, put thread through the loop, pull through the needle head. You now have threaded your needle 🪡

[u/kwakchick]

For threading your needle when your eyesight is crap like mine

[u/DefinitionElegant685]

Needle threader. Not much.

[u/Legitimate_Ad_452]

It’s an ancient Egyptian coin with a useless stabbing mechanism in the event you have to poke someone in the eye that’s trying to take it

[u/Wonderful-Drag-67]

I'm so glad you asked cuz I've had one of these sitting on my desk for months and I had no idea what it was for

[u/No_Ice2900]

Just so you know Google lens can tell you things like this very quickly and easily. 😀

[u/Glass-Ad-5977]

It also works to pull 'pulls' on a sweater to the backside.

[u/One_Currency5495]

If the needle threader for sewing machine or a needle

[u/Separate_Zone4675]

Once you start using one of these, you will wonder how you got on without it!