Plastic coat hangerWire ones? Easy peasy of course; I often find myself craving wire coat hangers just so I can reuse them.

But plastic ones from shops? With those, I’m at a loose end. I would say at least 80% of the few clothes I buy these days are casual tops (because I’ve never been that smart clothes-wise, and the cats aren’t too fussed what I wear to ‘work’ when we’re ‘working’ together around the house) - but the shops always try to insist I take the hangers too even though the t-shirts have “I will live in a drawer” stamped all over them (well, not literally. Except on that one shirt).

Knickers too. Who on earth hangs knickers up apart from shops? Those hangers are the worse because they’re so flimsy you can’t even reuse them as hangers around the home.

I always say ‘no, thanks’ when asked about hangers - and try to mention it if they don’t ask - but I don’t always get a chance and so we have a surplus around the house. I’m also rather sceptical about what happens to, particularly the flimsy ones, when left in the shop: am I just leaving it from them to throw away instead of me?

Sigh. So any ideas?

(Photo by Capgros)