Let’s talk about hangers - pretty please

I'm old school ~ white tube hangers. Lightweight and relatively inexpensive.

I'm still smitten with the Costco velvet hangers. Our closets looks so organized and nothing ever slips off of them.

i am working towards all wooden hangers - i like the look and it's worth the heft and space issues

gina

Ditto!!! Way cheaper to get the 50 pack than 5 to 10 pk at Target

     This is me too. 

     We have a walk in closet in our master bedroom but on my half of the closet the wire part that the hangers hang on fell down a few years ago. DH doesn't like to fix things around the house. He's amazing at computers, works in IT, is a reader and an incredible photographer. But a fix it guy around the house-he can do a few things, but it's limited. I should probably just do it myself one day and learn from youtube. Hey, that just occurred to me. 

Anyway, so I inherited a wardrobe from my German uncle that is very beautiful-the wood looks like teak which matches what we have and what I love-we have mid century teak in most of the house. It's a big wardrobe that has a door and it opens to reveal a hanging bar-no drawers or things like that. So, I've been using that to hang my clothes. What I like about the white tube hangers is I can reach in and easily slide off a shirt that I want to wear. But it also will hang there without sliding off until I want it. I use the hangers with clips to hang pants and skirts. 

Each season I transfer the clothes that fit that season from the bit of hanging metal shelf in the walk in closet that is on my side to the wardrobe and rotate the out of season clothes back in the closet. It's worked for years but thinking about fixing it myself makes sense now. I know DH can do it because he fixed that part in my walk in closet down in my scraproom. Maybe he'll see me start to do it and then take over himself-   

And that's a big round about way to answer what kind of hangers do I use. I can never answer a question with a one line sentence. 

The velvet hangers from Costco work for us, but they seem to break easily. I also had a batch where the hooks wouldn't swivel and made it a PITA when I had to rehang my shirt to face in the correct direction in my closet. I also have a bunch of Walmart plastic hangers in a pretty metallic grey that I love to use in my laundry room.

I use the velvet Costco hangers for normal weight items and wood hangers for heavier coats and jackets. I’m sorry I’m no help!

How much are they at Costco? I usually buy the 50 pks at Marshalls/TJ Maxx for $19.99.  
I've been converting all the closets to these, I am almost done!  I probably need one more 50 pk to complete my two bedroom closets and one to do the entry way coat closet. 

So the velvet hangers are .23 lbs each and the wooden hangers are .3 lbs each.  With those numbers, the velvet hangers are lighter.  

I'm still using the plastic tube hangers.  They work just fine for me.  DD has way more strappy, silky clothes and she uses the Costco velvet hangers.

I have to say the Costco velvet hangers (and the like) are great for v necks and wide neck sweaters. They don't slip off. And when pushing a group of shirts over, nothing falls off.

I also like looking into our walk in closet and seeing the same hangers. Looks professional and makes my OCD happy.

I mostly use plastic tube hangers (around $2.00 for a dozen). I like the ones with notches in them, because I wear a lot of tank tops and the notches are perfect for the straps.

I also have about a dozen of the velvet hangers from Costco that my Mom gave me when she bought the big package of them. I put my "no buttons" cardigans on them. 

 

Another one for the velvet/flocked ones from Costco. Love those things.

I like the ones like the flocked ones at costco, but with NO flocking....just plastic and metal. I don't like the way the flocking feels. (But I will say they're hard to find.)

carol