What Are The Best Hangers For Your Closet? | Clutter Video Tip HD

http://www.ClutterDiet.com Get organized with home organizing tips from professional organizers at The Clutter Diet. Joan Crawford isn’t the only one with an opinion on coat hangers. There are so many options out there; it’s easy to get frazzled. How do you choose the right solution for your closet? In today’s video Lorie Marrero is sharing the strategies she uses to help people make this choice. Following these tips will make your time in the closet less stressful and more productive. These Clutter Video Tips are posted frequently here on our clutterdiet organizing channel. You can search Twitter for #ClutterVideoTip also to find comments on our organizing tips. Lorie Marrero is the creator of ClutterDiet.com and the author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. Lorie also serves as the national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International and ambassador of the Donate Movement. http://www.clutterdiet.com http://donate.goodwill.org http://www.clutterdiet.com/products http://www.facebook.com/clutterdiet Hi I’m Lorie Marrero, creator of the Clutter Diet book and online program. Today we’re asking, “What are the best hangers for your closet?” Let’s start with these terrible solutions– wire hangers that you get from the dry cleaner. There really aren’t any pros to using these except for they are very cheap. Otherwise, they make your closet look terrible, they don’t match, they don’t work well together, they get tangled, and they are very flimsy, all kinds of reasons these don’t work very well. If you need them to roast a hot dog, or to break into your car, then fantastic, but for hanging your clothes, not great. The next choice is these very popular flocked hangers with a felted surface. The big selling point of these is that they save space in your closet because they are very thin in profile. If you have a very tight closet space, this might be the solution for you. They do not have a swivel head, the cost is very low, the availability is very high. You can find these anywhere and they come in lots of different colors. The thing that I don’t like about them, is the fact that the flocked surface makes things not slide off. I find it extremely annoying, because if you’re going to hang a T-shirt or lots of clothes really fast right out of the dryer, it doesn’t allow the shirts to fall and hang correctly and you have to fuss with them quite a bit to get them to kind of hang right, and it takes some time. Next are these beautiful wooden hangers. The biggest pro of these is the esthetic appeal. If you have a gorgeous custom closet, particularly if you have a lot of men’s wear or some kind of dark cherry wood closet features, this looks great. It is expensive though. It does have a swivel head and it’s very sturdy, it has options for pants and for dresses, but if you are going to commit to this for your closet, you need to buy all of them you think you’ll ever need at one time if you really want