Metal?
Wooden?
Plastic?
Satin?
What do you use? What do you prefer?
We have mostly plastic, with a few wood and metal thrown in. When I find an empty metal one, I pull it out - I’ve come to hate them!
[Joan Crawford]WIRE HANGERS?!?![/Joan Crawford]
I’d like to get nice wooden ones, but I can’t afford it and don’t have the space, so I have the white plastic ones. I like them with the swivel heads. They’re way better than the wire hangers.
I like wooden ones for coats and heavy stuff.
Mostly I use plastic ones.
I forgot about the swivel kinds - mine are the multi-colored 10 for a buck plastic hangers. If I was really organized, I’d color-code my wardrobe on the hangers, but that’s too much like work.
I have mostly plastic, but wood is nice, and padded is even better. I tend to wear stretchy fabrics and I like to hang my sweaters up. Right now I only have 2 padded hangers and they came with lingerie I bought. I’m not likely to cough up the dough to buy any.
A question for anyone that might have ideas for “hanger management”. Any thoughts about how to manage unused hangers? I’ve finally gotten into the habit of at least taking the hanger out of the closet when I take an item out, and for now it’s okay just to set them on top of my makeshift wardrobe (we’re under construction here). But when the construction is done, it would be nice to have some kind of system where hangers are easily accessible (i.e. not stuck on other hangers) and are not hanging in the closet, making it look nasty. Any ideas?
I use mostly wooden ones (90%). The wife was mostly a plastic hanger girl. But I think I’ve cured her of that.
In fact, we just went through this at the store. She said we needed more hangers and off we went to the hanger department. She, in her thriftiness, put a package of 10 plastic hangers in the cart. I scoffed and grabbed two packs of 5 wood hangers and put the cheap plastic ones back.
Price difference was about 5-6 bucks.
She pointed out the plastic ones were cheaper and I pointed out the entire reason we need more is because we are replacing the cheap plastic ones that have broken. The wood and metal ones will last 10 times as long.
I followed it up with “if you really don’t want the wood ones I’ll gladly give you the few plastic ones I have in exchange”
Sadly, we bought the wood ones but one we got them home she wouldn’t part with them.
I’m not a fan of rebuying things like hangers so I’d rather spend a bit more up front. I have several old wood hangers fron the 30’s that are still going strong today.
What is the problem with wire ones? Mist of the wire ones are relatively thick, and have been around for as long as I can remember. Plastic ones are really cheap, and I don’t like them as much, but you can’t seem to buy good wire ones any more.
I should add, that I do use nice wooden ones for my pea coat, and on my other winter coats.
I use plastic hangers. I have those plastic and metal clip hangers for pants and such.
i have mostly wire hangers. too bad it makes a “nipple” on my shoulders when the shirt has been hangin up for too long.
Some wire, some plastic ones. However, I’ve crocheted upon the wire hangers, this way I get the long life of a wire hanger, but my clothes do not slide off as easily, and they don’t get the hanger crease, either. Oh, and I don’t crochet over the hook of the hanger…instead, I make a chain about 8 inches long at the start and finish, and tie the chains together to make a bow.
those ones with the clips…stops the clothes falling off and prevents trousers and the like getting crease marks on. Nice clippy hangers are gentle enough not to leave bite marks on your clothes as well. I always end up begging the shop assistant to let me take them home…so I have loads!!
I hate to shill for HSN and the ever-annoying Joy Mangano, but her “Huggable Hangers” are great. They’re thin, but not thin enought that they are unstable or will snap. Not padded, but covered with a velvet-like fabric that keeps spaghetti straps & the like from slipping. They really did give me a lot more closet space.
In the interests of being all girly and stuff, I do have a supply of silk padded hangers that I use for lingerie.
VCNJ~
I use some of all. Wire for shirts, plastic for pants so they don’t get that fold mark. Wooden or suit hangers for Dave’s jackets and suits (which he never wears).
I have few enough clothes (really!) that I can use a portion of the closet to hang empty hangers. When a fair number have accumulated, I’ll take them and any others (like out of my husband’s closet) down to the laundry room so as I take my clothes out of the dryer, I can hang them right up. Of course, if you don’t have a laundry room or your own personal washer and dryer, that might not work.
Is there a place you could hang one hanger, then hang all the empties on it? Back of a door or something? Other than that, I have no idea.
I use mostly all plastic hangers for clothes. I have a couple of the nice padded fabric-covered ones for certain sweaters that I hang up (Most of my sweaters are folded on a shelf). I have a few nice wooden ones in the coat closet for heavy winter coats.
I hate the wire hangers, too. My husband’s shirts come back from the cleaners on them, and when he takes the shirt off, he just throws away the hanger.
As for “Hanger Management”, one of my daughter’s jobs is to go through the closets once a week or so and collect all the empty hangers and take them down to the laundry room and hang them on the exposed gas pipe that runs along the ceiling. That way I can hang things up right away when I take it out of the dryer.
I suppose I should learn to use a hack-saw blade, properly cut, as a poor man’s ‘slim-jim’ … but I can still get into most accidentally locked vehicles using a good wire hanger. Bending it just right, one can almost always either grab the little door-lock knob or flip the switch. Wriggling the wire through the door or window seal, doing little to no damage, is the real tricky part.
Plastic or wood hangers just won’t do for this time honored automotive tradition.
I keep wanting to buy those. Thanks for the testimony. I have lots of sleeveless shirts that I wear under button-downs, and they always end on the closet floor unless I clothes-pin them to the hangers, which leaves them with those weird marks.
I finally made the switch to all wood hangers. Before that it was plastic, though I insisted they all be the same color at least (I dunno why this was important to me).
Management-- those darned clip types were evil! I have the long wood bar gripper kind for pants and skirts now, For slippery blouses, I put elastic hair bands, in matching colors so it’s purty, around the arms of the wooden hangers. No clips, no tangles, yay!
I like that you call it “organized.” 
I figured it was my touch of OCD that makes me hang blue things on blue hangers, tan things on tan hangers, green things on green hangers… well, you get the idea.
