Coat Hangers

In the ironing basket, at hand to hang ironed garments

In the wardrobes. Charity shop or the bin whenever there are surplus hangers.

Surplus wooden ones end up on the fire.

Wardrobes, airing cupboard, the charity shop!

Charity shops don’t want them, they prefer uniform hangers distinguished only by size. I keep plastic ones to hang shirts to dry or on when I’m ironing but other than that, I’d say chuck them.

I saw something on Facebook where someone put two brackets on a wall and hung their coat hangers on them. I think I’ve got too many to do that, though. I think if they’re not being used to hang clothes they breed

I just have sturdy plastic ones, any others are rehomed asap. We don't have many spare ones. Those that we do have are in the hall cupboard ready for visitors' coats.

I'm sure the wire ones are designed to torment any normal human being - best made into a tinsel star ala Blue Peter 50 years ago!

Oh dear, at the risk of outing my hanger OCD DH has one sort, I have another and spare rooms have different colours.

Any empty ones are hung on drying rail in laundry ready for clean ironed clothes.

Thank you all. I don't want to get rid, they are in a box under the stairs but they always get tangled up! The trouser ones are the worst for it. The brackets sound a good idea, or maybe hang them back up in the wardrobe.

lixy that took me back a bit, I can remember my mother doing that with the old wire ones

Mine all have things hanging on them

I have the non-slip 'velvet' coathangers.
They're slim and don't take up much space.
(Unlike me 😀)

We have very few spare which hang in the wardrobes, never bought any.

I shall have a lot to spare when I start clearing out and decluttering 🤞

Callistemon21 this is exactly why I have so many at the moment. I sorted out my wardrobes, lots I no longer wear.

Any solutions?
Never throw out clothes, Welshy!

Or buy one, throw one out 🙂

Sorted out my wardrobe yesterday and put T shirts in the chest of drawers rather than leaving them hanging until summer, therefore a plethora of hangers that clearly breed. At present plastic ones in a basket which keeps falling over in the bottom of the wardrobe, wooden ones on the rack.

Luckily we have quite a few closets in our house, so I keep some empty hangers in each closet. For the front door closet I purchased nice wooden ones, which actually hold the weight of coats without bending, like some of the light wire ones do.

I hate to admit my own closet is packed very tightly... my DH has given me the chore of doing a cleanse in the New Year, not a diet cleanse, but a closet cleanse! He's the organized one in our household. So I will try to get rid of some items, and then I can lower the amount of wire hangers, and replace them with the nicer velvety ones. They are nicer for hanging clothes, since they are non-slip.

I bought 2 packs of the velvet hangers, but they are too big and stretch the shoulders on all of my clothes, MrOops hates them as he can’t drag his clothes off of them the way he does with wooden ones.

They aren’t breeding, but they are now packed away in a dark cupboard, I think it’s the light that makes them breed.
Keep them in the dark and all is well.

I keep them in a dark corner of our walk on robe beyond the clothes. I chucked out all those foul metal ones and a few basic wooden ones during my recent cull. Oh I feel so good, at least I can find things now. I discovered a couple of things from pre Covid still with new labels on. What was I even thinking ? Nasty, horrible clothes straight to the op shop! One of them had half sleeves with bare bits at the top. Yukyuk and triple yuk, I must have been out of my tiny mind.

I discovered a couple of things from pre Covid still with new labels on. What was I even thinking?
I’ve found things that were probably pre millennium and often ask myself the same question nanna8 !

There are various hanger storage devices on Ebay. I have the canvas type, but it is a bit flimsy. Here is a link to the search.
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=coat+hanger+stacker&_sop=12

I don’t store them I have 2/3 spare but anything above that number go either in the bin or recycling.

Can I politely ask people not to give them to charity shops. We are all inundated with them, plus, we have to pay for our rubbish to be taken away.

Here they don’t give you hangers when you buy clothes- they collect them at the check out. You have to actually buy the things separately.