Who knew that asking what kind of hangers you use would stir such emotions? What I learned is that some of you have some very strong attachments to your particular choice of hangers. Several of you felt passionate about plastic hangers, to the point I even received a history lesson with regard to the first prototype and its thickness verses today’s thinner models. I love it!

Among you are some definite “NO WIRE HANGERS” warriors. And, some of you who detest the wire, don’t even understand the Joan Crawford reference. You dislike them just because you dislike their performance. I mean, REALLY dislike their performance.

I am glad we are not talking politics, as the expressed opinions were as far apart as blue verses red during election season. I’m just gonna say, if this fixation is taking up a lot of time in your thoughts, please call me to enroll in the next new 12 step group, Hangers Anonymous.

To those of you who saw and responded to the article about the many possible uses for cheap hangers, you have confirmed my belief that what we say about the hanger is in line with our innate personality style. Yes, YOU have a clothes hanger personality style. You might be wood. You might be wire. You might be plastic. Or, you might be padded. I can see your mind turning already. Stay tuned for the next post to find out what type of hanger you are and what that says about you!

The other question we asked is how you learned about closet maintenance. Many of you said you weren’t really taught anything about closet protocol by your parents. It could be that the information fell on deaf ears or easily-distracted “squirrel” ears. Just kidding!

Others’ responses seemed to prove that some people, straight out of the womb, were organizing their surroundings and developing strong boundaries that should not be interwoven, crossed, or overlapped. Everything has a place and there is a place for everything. Physically and emotionally, right? 

On a serious note, I wonder…

• If the types of hangers in our closets parallel the thoughts in our minds. The flexible wire ones,  the uniform plastic, the powerful wooden and the sensitive padded hangers?  Hmmm… I can think of many thoughts that fit under those categories. How about you???  
• If those of us with more emotional attachments to the items in our closets, have more trouble with closet maintenance?
• How many of us may have had mothers who enforced a very harsh standard of organization and cleanliness, which affected the way we organize and clean now?

Always so much to think about when we take a peek inside the closets of our minds. Speaking of which, don’t forget to answer the latest CLOSET QUESTIONS. They’re good ones!