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Question: One household item...

What's one household item, that when used properly makes things very neat and orderly, but when packed becomes a nasty, tangled, frustrating mess? Answer: Clothing hangers.

Yes. This is my world tonight. The movers arrive tomorrow and DH and I have to separate all the stuff to be loaded into our vehicles and the stuff to go on the moving truck...

My head is spinning.

Re: Question: One household item...

  • Oh man, don't even bother with that! You know what we do? We take all of our clothes, still on the hangers, throw them in the car and go. We've moved 6 times in our 7 year marriage (all apartments). Works like a charm every time.
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  • yup they suck..I just leave the clothes on them when i pack
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  • imageBriGiboo:
    yup they suck..I just leave the clothes on them when i pack

    Ditto. I have way too much clothing and it takes several boxes to get this done. If I have leftovers I throw them in one of those industrial garbage bags (they don't rip through the sides of those) and throw it in the back. 

  • imageLeila'sMommy:
    Oh man, don't even bother with that! You know what we do? We take all of our clothes, still on the hangers, throw them in the car and go. We've moved 6 times in our 7 year marriage (all apartments). Works like a charm every time.

     This is exactly what I have always done when I moved. Saves a ton of time too. Fold down the back of the SUV and lay them out flat so they don't wrinkle.

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    imageLeila'sMommy:
    Oh man, don't even bother with that! You know what we do? We take all of our clothes, still on the hangers, throw them in the car and go. We've moved 6 times in our 7 year marriage (all apartments). Works like a charm every time.

     This is exactly what I have always done when I moved. Saves a ton of time too. Fold down the back of the SUV and lay them out flat so they don't wrinkle.

    This is what we do too. We've moved 6 times and it works great!! It saves space too, I think. Just carry them in and hang them up right away :)

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  • I just did this too...I left everything on the hangers and folded my back seats down so they were flat and laid everything in there nicely so it didn't get wrinkled.  I'd be tearing my hair out if I took everything off the hangers.
  • And a side note to this same subject, we leave all of our clothing in our dresser drawers, take the drawers out and take them over separately in our car. Saves having to box up a ton of clothes, and once you're moved in, you just slide the drawers in - boom, done.
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  • The packers/movers are here for the next few days. We had to separate our stuff for our cars from everything else going on the moving truck. This is a state to state move, so sadly, we cannot just pull our drawers out and put them in the car. That works so well, though.

    This is the 26th move I've made since college, when I count dorms, apartments and houses. I am SO done! Death to hangers!

  • It's probably too late, but just in case...

    Take a chunk of empty hangers and tie them together with string. Do both corners (not the hook at the top, but the inside of the shoulder corners) so nothing twists. Put the hanger bundles in a box. They can't get all jumbled if they're tied up like that.

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    It's probably too late, but just in case...

    Take a chunk of empty hangers and tie them together with string. Do both corners (not the hook at the top, but the inside of the shoulder corners) so nothing twists. Put the hanger bundles in a box. They can't get all jumbled if they're tied up like that.

    What a good idea!

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  • One easy way we have found to deal with them is to take a walmart or other plastic bag and tie them together. We do this when DH takes all the extra hangers back to the dry cleaner. Works best if you put the bag through the large opening, not over the handle. Hope that makes sense!
  • imageLeila'sMommy:
    And a side note to this same subject, we leave all of our clothing in our dresser drawers, take the drawers out and take them over separately in our car. Saves having to box up a ton of clothes, and once you're moved in, you just slide the drawers in - boom, done.

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