If over the years you have accumulated a certain amount of metal hangers similar to those from laundries and you no longer have any space to use them according to their common function, try to arm yourself with creativity and use them to create some alternative solutions. The hangers can find an unexpected utility in your garden, in the preparation of food to be roasted near the fire or in the creation of supports to hold towels or for your pc. Seeing is believing!
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If you have accumulated a certain amount over the years in excess of metal hangers similar to those coming from laundries and you no longer have any space to use them according to their common function, try to arm yourself with creativity and use them for implementation of some alternative solutions.
Le hangers they will be able to find an unexpected utility in the your vegetable garden, In the preparation of foods for roasting near the fire or in the making of supports to hold the towels or for your pc. Seeing is believing!
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Dry shirts and T-shirts
The extra coat hangers can be placed in the room where you usually hang out the clothes and used for hang up to dry shirts, sweaters, t-shirts. In this way they will dry more quickly and later ironing them will be much less tiring. The creases left will be very few and you will not have the problem of having to deal with the marks left by the clothespins.
Napkin holder
By modeling a steel hanger with the help of pliers it is possible to obtain a napkin holder or, even better in order to stem the use of disposable products, a towel holder to be placed near the sink in the kitchen or bathroom. For its realization take inspiration from the images shown at this link.
Unclog sinks and drain pipes
You can model a coat hanger to turn it into a hooked stick to use to try to remove any fillings from sanitary drains, bathtubs or sinks, with particular reference to accumulations caused by toilet paper or hair.
Retrieve items
A coat hanger that you will have remodeled in order to give it an elongated shape will be useful in retrieve finished items under beds or sofas or accidentally fallen into confined spaces between one piece of furniture and another, between the wall and the radiator, etc.
Support the plants
From a coat hanger you can obtain metal supports in the form of sticks to use to support the plants in your garden. We are thinking above all of tomatoes, peas and beans, which usually require support during their development.
Kennel for the cat
A brilliant idea in our opinion was suggested to us by our friend Tascabile who posted on her Facebook page this photo tutorial to make a beautiful cat bed with two hangers, an old t-shirt and a pillow. Simple and impressive, don't you think?
Retrieve trousers and sweatshirts
The hook of a coat hanger could help you in the often tedious operation of reposition the sliding laces correctly of a pair of sports trousers or a sweatshirt with a hood, in case one of their ends inadvertently ended up inside the portion of fabric used for the sliding of the whole lace.
Do-it-yourself garlands
Try to widen the two ends of a coat hanger in order to give it a shape that is as circular as possible or at least rhomboid, so that you can use it as aand base for making wreaths on the occasion of holidays.
Emergency opening
This is a trick that more than one thief may have used when confronted with locked door of an old model car. In case you still have one and you happen to lose your keys, try to juggledoor opening thanks to a coat hanger, as in this video:
Remove the wax
The pointed end of a coat hanger will help you in the often complicated operation of remove some wax from a candle holder. Seeing is believing! Also in this case a simple hanger can help you.
In the barbecues
In the United States there are those who have tried to use a hanger, after giving it the correct shape, to roast marshmallows, the typical soft American sweets, near the fire. The same idea could be replicated here too, perhaps to try to brown boiled potatoes or cubes of tofu.
Supports for books, PCs, tablets
The metal coat hangers can be easily manipulated and folded to make gods supports for books, PCs or tablets at practically no cost and in just a few seconds. For their realization you can draw inspiration from this video:
Multi-purpose coat hanger
Even those hangers that seem to have been specifically designed to hold jackets or shirts can become multipurpose tools to hang scarves, scarves, light trousers, but also socks, towels or pillowcases, depending on your space requirements.
Support for climbing plants
Use your coat hangers to creatively create a support net that fits your growth of your climbing plants. Some solutions may also be suitable if you do not have a garden but simply a balcony.
In the kitchen
Starting with some hooks that you have removed from your unused coat hangers, you can easily make hooks to be used in the creation of a kitchen towel hanger do it yourself, using a plywood support as a base.
Finally, last but not least, if you really no longer have space for hangers, but you can't help but often go to the dry cleaners, finding yourself with hangers that you would not know how to use, find out about the possibility to return them to the store.
