Coat hangers!

I feel your pain.
I wear skirts most of the time (I don't suit trousers sadly) I hate it when the skirt doesn't have hanging loops or I can't find a hanger with the right notch/hook. DH says they get tangled because the wardrobe is too full

I now have only wooden cost hangers (bought many years ago, on a special offer).

They seem quite well behaved, and do not seem hell bent on entangling themselves!

They also have notches on the shoulders to help the clothes stay in place, and rubbery stuff on the bar which seems to help the trouser parts of suits stay put.

Coat, not cost!

I believe coat hangers breed in cupboards! There always seem to be far too many or not enough

Matalan and Primark both sell non-slip hangars.

BUY coat hangers!!!! Maybe this is where I have been going wrong.

I have about a dozen suede feel coat-hangers and nothing slides off them they're great. Don't know where they ever came from but I've had them for years. Possibly my in-laws originally.

I don’t like plastic ones except for hanging up wet washing and metal ones are good for the same purpose. Just as you say, hangers can get very much entwined and it drives me nuts as well.

Metal wire ones rom the dry cleaners can be turned into dowsing rods. You need two coathangers and two biro outers ( without the refills) and a pair of strong metal snips.

You cut the hangers with metal snips, at one side of the horizontal bit and beside the hook on the other side, so that when the short leg is straightened out you have L shaped wires. Put the short wire legs of the two Ls into the end of the biro cases, cutting them shorter if they are too long, so that you can hold the biro cases with the long legs of the wire swinging loose.

Then you hold one biro case in each hand, out in front of you, with the wires pointing very slightly downhill. They will swing wildly about until you get them balanced. Walk slowly forward over the area you want to dowse and note where they swing together for no obvious reason. This has worked for me both outdoors over a water supply pipe and indoors over a conduit carrying elecric cables across under the floor.

Entertains children (and adults) at no cost. Have fun.

Luckygirl it was a one off purchase, honest, and it was on special offer, and they are excellent coat hangers!

Now, if only I could get Mr P to understand that the hangers should all face the same way, or even understand what they are for.......

I am that sad person who has just replaced all hangers with wooden ones. Sourced from “that online company” at a very good price.

They have to all face the same way or I get “twitchy”.

When I send our ironing, after holidays or just bit feeling up to it I always return their plastic/wire hangers.

I refuse all plastic hangers in shops and bin any metal ones from dry cleaners. Wooden ones stay in spare bedroom wardrobe or in the 'trousers section' of my wardrobe.
Otherwise it's only non-slip suede ones for everything else and all facing the same way (with no tangling!)

I hate them all with a vengeance - I'm sure they've got a life of their own and spend it plotting against me. They constantly get tangled up with each other, throw the clothes on the floor of the wardrobe, breed incessantly when my back is turned and refuse to be stacked neatly in bags when they become unwanted

Actually, mine were purchased years ago from The Daily Telegraph , not long after I left exdh. I felt a rush of indulgence, as "he" would NEVER have allowed me to have such items!

midgley: I believe coat hangers breed in cupboards! There always seem to be far too many or not enough

You can never find a safety pin when you need one, either.
It has been postulated that these are the larval form of the thing, which then turns into a chrysalis as a coat hanger.
The ultimate change is into something larger, which has both male and female options.

see "Or All the Seas with Oysters" by Avram Davidson

I hate the things, too. And if I could have my life all over again I would refuse to wash and iron any shirt that wasn't put in the wash without a hanger. I remember my mother doing the ironing and always having to ask us to go and fetch hangers for our school blouses.

Come to that I would also refuse to wash socks that weren't attached to their partner, or were rolled up or had holes in.

I'll just have to pass the advice on to my daughters in law, only I don't think they iron much.

I prefer the padded variety they hold things securely and look attractive when all in a row and facing the same way!! The quirks of human nature eh

To make a plastic coat hanger non-slip. simply buy a packet of rubber bands. Wind a band around the ends of the hangers, about 3 inches from the ends - I normally wind them around about 3 times so they are snug. Voila ! Non-slip hangers !

JackyB' I now have a vision of your shirts marching out of the washing machine, hangars in and sleeves hanging neatly, all sizes in ranks, then lining up waiting to be ironed.

I replaced every single coat hanger with ultra thin suede ones, nothing slips off the hanger and you get twice as much in the wardrobe. I bought them in two styles, one set have a hanging rail for trousers or matching scarf.
I did keep about ten plastic hangers which are used for hanging damp blouses on until they are ironed but they live in the ironing basket.

I have a mish mash of plastic, wire, wooden and flocked hangers because they all have their uses. Wooden ones for heavy coats and suits, wire ones and pound shop plastic for tee shirts , flocked ones for silky tops and I always keep the trouser hangers with clips when I buy trousers so I can hang up shawls / pashminas.

This thread is also an insight into Gransnetters' fashion style.

Shawls and pashminas!!!! Matching scarves!!! Heavens above!!

I’ve got dozens of wire and plastic ones picked up over the years, all mismatched and many with the names of long defunct shops on. Spare ones all tangled together on the wardrobe bottom. Plus the odd wooden one, scratched and battered, that probably came from my mother’s, or his.

DD1 has just offered me 50 matching polished wooden ones (way too big for me), which she is replacing with thinner ones, some with velvet. She’s a matching scarf type of girl as well. I sometimes think they switched my child at birth.

Recycle those pesky slippery plastic clothes hangers out of the house.

As we did years ago with the wire hangers.