I have finally allowed myself to escape this grueling task by taking my clothes to the cleaners. Aside from the obvious extra expense, I have discovered a minor problem with this idea - there is a non-stop barrage of hangers entering our household.
I've contemplated taking them back to the cleaners for "recycling" but I don't like the thought of my clean clothes hanging on someone else's used hanger. I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
In trying to stem this tidal wave of wire, I have adopted far more stringent quality standards in my hanger assessment. At the first sign of bending, those wire hangers are gone. The slightest crease in a cardboard pants-hanger renders it obsolete. This isn't enough.
Hangers get sent off to school with my college bound son. My youngest son does his best to rotate the stock by yanking his clothes from the closet with barely a thought that there is some object that suspends his shirts underneath that shelf. Still, they don't stop coming.
Vacant hanging space in my closet is filled with idle hangers. The college son's empty closet is empty no more as even more hangers have filled that space. There's no more room in the laundry room. Or the youngest son's closet. Or the pantry. Or the refrigerator. We've even resorted to giving hangers to Goodwill. Please make it stop! With these cleaning bills, I can no longer afford a bigger house.
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I can give you credit for attempting to recycle your hangars by giving them to your sons, however, I think it is strange that you wouldn't want to return them to your cleaners since they probably gave you someone's rejects in the first place. I always find it strange that they would give these to you because there must be some cost to them. Wouldn't it be appropriate to charge you a deposit and give you a nominal amount back upon return, just like a soda bottle? There may even be a little black market or cottage industry emerging from this idea. I can see a homeless person walking down the street pushing a shopping cart full of used hangers trying to get the return deposit.
Why should you deny their rights?
I just saw a homeless person today - or at least they claimed to be one, you can't always count on that claim to be true these days - I should have had my hangers with me. I can just picture the smile on this guy's face as I hand him a few dozen hangers the next time I drive by his exit!
This could actually the beginning of a meaniful trend. Imagine the signs going up everywhere, pleading "will work for hangers."
Ever wonder where did the term "hangers" originate? Just doesn't seem to be very descriptive of its actual use.
I think the term hanger is descriptive enough. At least it describes what the hanger does. It just doesn't explain why.
Do you have any suggestions? How about clothes jockey?
I think it would be incredibly insulting to the camel jockeys out there who happen to be disc jockeys while wearing they brief jockeys as they jockey for position on the freeway.
Besides that, I'm actually okay with it. How about Closet Support or is that dangerously close to the organization you belong to after you were "outed?"
I'm sorry, could you repeat that? You sound a little horse.
What kind of mangy manager are you? Ask your Secretariat.
A great one. That's been Affirmed.
You need to come up with a better response. Your showing signs of preakness.
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