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Hi, guys. It's Alejandra and I'm standing here in my closet. And a few of you guys have
asked about the type of hangers I use inside my closet so I figured I would do a quick
tip on the type of hangers I use and why I use them. But not only that, I want to show
you a really quick and easy and cost-effective trick that you can do inside your closet like
starting today after you watch this video and it's going to solve a big problem that
a lot of people have.
So OK first off, let me tell you the type of hanger I use and why I use it. So I use
these wooden hangers and I use all the same hangers inside my closet because nothing can
makes me more happy than walking into a closet full of uniformed hangers. Well, other things
make me happier but that's just one thing. When I walk inside my closet and I see all
the same type of hanger, I smile and it looks nice and I know that's totally a cosmetic
thing but there is a functional reason or there's reason why these hangers are more
functional than like wire hangers or sometimes plastic hangers.
When you use a wire or sometimes a plastic hanger, the shirt or whatever you're hanging
doesn't hang as nicely. It creates kind of like a crease in the shoulder or yeah, it
creates like a fold that you wouldn't necessarily get if you use a wooden hanger. So that's
why I like to use these wooden hangers.
So these hangers are from IKEA and I've been using these for about six or seven years now
and I've only had maybe like four or five of the hangers break on me. That's how durable
they are and how sturdy they are. And the part they would break off like in my experience,
what breaks off is like this part will come off of this part and you can easily just like
nail it back together. So it's totally a great hanger. I think they come in like a pack of
ten and it's like maybe three or four bucks from IKEA. So again, it's a good price.
One of the things that I've noticed from these hangers and I'm going to show you how to resolve
this problem, but one of the things I noticed is since it doesn't have a grip on the end
and it's not like - it's a smooth surface, the clothes can just easily fall off the hanger.
So let me hang a shirt and show you. And if you have the same problem, I'm going to show
you exactly how to fix it.
OK. So you hang the shirt on your hanger and when you're taking another shirt off the hanger
like sometimes this shirt like will fall down kind of like that. And then it's really annoying
to have to go back and pick up the shirt and put it back on the hanger, hang it back up
for it to happen all over again, right? Like that happens to a lot of people.
So naturally what people would do is they go out and buy those - it's the felt-lined,
non-slip grip hangers, right? They're in all the stores. You see them at Target. You see
them on Amazon. You see them at Costco, Bed Bath & Beyond. A lot of people have them and
those hangers are great because the clothes don't fall off. I personally don't like those
hangers because I think the clothes, they grip like too much to the hanger making it
really hard to take the shirt off the hanger. And if you don't have that problem then - a
lot of people don't have that problem. Maybe it's just me. But I don't like those hangers.
So let me show you what I've done to keep these hangers and avoid the shirt falling
to the ground. Let me grab the shirt. OK. So what I've done is I've gotten a rubber
band from my office supply drawer. This is kind of like a thicker one, not so much a
thin one. And I wrap it around the end of the hanger just like this and then I do the
other side also with another rubber band. Just wrap it around and then twist it and
then put it like that.
And then I put the shirt back on the hanger just like that. I can go like that and go
like that and the shirt doesn't fall of the hanger because now that I've added the rubber
band, it has created a non-slip grip to this hanger without having to go out and replace
all of my hangers out of my closet. And a rubber band literally costs like a penny,
two pennies.
And so, it's a great tip. It's easy to do, totally affordable. You can watch this video
and go to your closet and do the same thing and you will solve the problem of having clothes
fall off your hangers.
Anyways, that's my tip for the day. I will see you guys soon. Bye!
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