Black plastic hangers against a blue and white checkered cloth background.

Hang in There, Hangers!

Black plastic hangers against a blue and white checkered cloth background.

Good news: the closet isn’t possessed—yet. The hangers are just cracking under pressure, sending haunting sounds through the walls at night. Flimsy plastic hangers—freebies from department stores—reached their limit, sending shards through shirts. Skirt hanger clips have blown apart under the enormous task of trying to fight gravity while suspending 3-4 skorts and skirts at the same time. When they break, I swear I hear them say, “The circus is over! The tightrope has snapped.”

And what I have I done? I’ve been so tired lately, I’ve just left the broken hangers on the floor on my side of the closet and piled clothes up on the rod, over other clothes. As you can imagine, it was taking me hours to figure out where I even was in the morning. Had I wandered into a fabric mountain? What was this land I was living in? Why was it covered with dangerously sharp objects that were broken? Where were my shoes?

“Nate!” I’d cry out in the dark. “It’s happening! Another dimension has entered the house through the closet, and I’m stuck. Feed me a rope from the bedroom, and I’ll try to latch onto it. When I give the signal, pull! It’s the only way out I can think of.”

This was no way to live. I needed hangers. Real ones.

Fortunately, you can get a lot of hangers on the cheap at big box stores, so I clicked my heels three times, shot out of a circus cannon from the closet, and ended up in the storage/housewares department of my local big box store. I got sturdy skirt hangers and a bunch of thick, rounded plastic hangers that are doing a banger of a job holding things up.

I also put together bags of clean clothes that can be given away—and I actually had hangers left over!

The broken ones probably have a use somewhere in a craftsy project of sorts—or maybe as props/sound effects in a haunted house attraction. But it’s just best we part ways. I just can’t have them hanging around anymore.

Your Turn: What’s one small change that has made all the difference for you?

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16 thoughts on “Hang in There, Hangers!”

  2. My younger son used to pull / yank his clothes off the hangers; plastic ones broke, solid wooden ones had their metal hooks extracted and wire hangers were reduced to a straight piece of wire. My coat hangers just get tangled up like a magic puzzle and I feel irrational rage when all I want to do is take one item out of the wardrobe.

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  3. For many years, I put up with cheap plastic clothes hangers until I decided to invest in metal ones that are coated in a fabric designed to hold other fabrics without damaging them. These hangers work well for business shirts. I also bought a half dozen thick chrome-plated metal hangers, which are perfect for going-out T-shirts. Additionally, I have heavy-duty wooden suit hangers for trousers. Now, I rarely experience broken or bent hangers. In my opinion, this has been a wise investment.

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  4. Ah, the puns. I can never get enough of your puns. I hope you got enough skirt hangers that you won’t need to triple or quadruple load now. It’s kind of an annoyance because you have to unclip and reclip all of them to get the one.

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