Are you a 'straight across' type of person or a 'follow the contour'? When I get back from the gym I'm gonna throw caution to the wind and cut them a different way.
I like to pick a toe nail with my fingernails until a little tear is created, I then rip across like a heathen. Joyous experience!
I do this if i cant find the cutters, or sometimes just anyway I dreamt (dreamed?) last week i was giving cpr to a disembodied foot, id been watching Kill Bill and there are a lot of feet and toe references in that film. It was this pretty girls foot that I know and there was like a slit in the foot, it was horrible, but i was ok.
i put them in a river. the local beavers come and knaw them and use them to build their dams.. i once tried the same with a Llama, but it was an epic failure it just spat at me.