How do you store your coat hangers when not in use?

[tracyk]

ie when the stuff is in the laundry cycle (can take me up to a week!) I'm fed up of piles of coat hangers lying around the place - but also hate having a whole load of empty ones in the wardrobe.

err, in the wardrobe ??

got to be in the wardrobe. They take up loads of room anywhere else.

Or, if you have room wherever you do ironing, put up a rail and you can put things straight on hangers.

don't they just hang in the wardrobe? It would never occur to me to put them somewhere else.

I keep a bundle hung on a peg in the laundry cupboard for things like tshirts that get dried on hangers but not stored on them.

I have visions of your house with strange piles of coat hangers all over the place now.

THey stay in the cupboard - they never need to come out surely.

at laundry cupboard, how marvellous!

hah, don't be fooled, it's the tall Awkward Stuff cupboard in the kitchen with the teatowels, tableclothes, placemats, iron, laundry basket, pegs etc in
tis my consolation for not having a futility room...

Aha. Sounded v posh though!

Ahem...Ta-da!

I have problems with hangers and bought this recently. It's quite good. I used to keep them all jumbled up in a bin liner but they just got tangled up. I think I had far too many though, so I chucked loads out and just try and keep the ones tempoarily unemployed in this.

Do people really worry about this kind of stuff?

you do when you (eg) move house / clear out the wardrobe / have to fit the travel cot bakc under the bed and realise you ahve five carrier bags of unused coathangers in there...

like that TinyGang!
Isn't Lakeland good?!

Fantastic tinygang - thats thew kind of thing I'm looking for. I always envy the rods type things they have in Next - behind the counter for their hangers.

I do have piles of hangers in the bedroom - cos I hate putting washing away andit usually lives in the basket. And they don't sit in a nice neat bundle - they get all tangled.

I hate empty hangers in the wardrobe - not neat at all!

I do not begin to understand this post.

Has this thread moved or been updated elsewhere? I am also struggling with spare hangers and what to do with them!

I have spare hangers as I have an indoor electric dryer that requires items on hangers so of course I have the ones the clothes came off out the wardrobe but I have spare hangers for drawer items such as shorts, t-shirts, under vests, towels etc that don't just sit empty in a wardrobe as they take up valuable rod space.
Spare hangers is a real thing! haha

I'd love to hear any more tips and ideas!

Firstly I bought a job lot of identical slim, velvet multiway hangers - black ones for me and purple for DD - that way they take up minimal space and I didn't have wardrobes full of mismatched styles of store hangers. Also, having a colour each means that things are always on the right size hangers - DD's hangers are smaller, childrens' hangers to fit her clothes better so I know that if I am hanging her things, I need a purple hanger and can just grab one, rather than searching for one of the right size.

Then I have one of those cheap popup laundry baskets in the bottom of both our wardrobes - when we take an item out of the wardrobe that is on a hanger, the hanger immediately gets dropped into the basket. Simple but effective when DD can be persuaded not to just leave hangers on her bed or floor

When I bring the laundry back upstairs to put it away the hangers are all there, but not taking up rail space, and if I do need to take them elsewhere (eg if I'm ironing some of the few items we own that need ironing then I do it downstairs in front of the TV) then I can just pull the basket out and carry them to where they need to be. Also, when it's empty I can just fold the basket up so it takes up no room at all.

The thread is 11 years old!

Looks like I'm about 15 years late on this post... but these work a treat. Obviously they don't hold huge numbers of hangers, but keep them organised and untangled: thehangerstore.co.uk/product/canvas-coat-hanger-bag-wardrobe-storage-clothes-hanger-organiser/

You maybe 15 years late but this is genius thank you 😊

Amazing! No problem!

@TinyGang the link isn't working for me

I use those super skinny velvet hangars for most things. They're great. Keep spare ones in the wardrobe and I brought the metal ones back to the dry cleaners to be recycled.

its a better choice to use a best standard ward board and hangers

The thread is 16 years old