for the love of hangers...

That's right.  I have an odd obsession for plastic hangers.  Not the cheap ones that will sometimes come free when you buy clothing, but the nice solid ones that have a potential for all matching and making a closet look super coordinated.  However, these hangers usually cost money.  Therefore, for the time being, I had resigned myself to have a closet full of mismatched wire hangers with a few nice plastic ones thrown in.  However, this all changed the other day...

One unique characteristic of Berkeley is that there's always free stuff on the side walks*, most of the time it's junk, but sometimes, you can find something that you want/need, and you just have to pick it up and take it home.  Earlier this week we were running and came across a pile of stuff-- which included two grocery bags full of plastic hangers! (AND, the icing on the cake was that most of them were black.)  I quickly decided they would be worth carrying home, and picked out the ones I wanted while Quinn patiently jogged in place.  Quinn carried the bag of said hangers, and we were off again.  But then it happened, the bag with all the oodles of hangers broke and the hangers spilled all over the side walk.  So now, without a bag, between the two of us we had four fist-fulls of hangers.  It turns out running with hangers gives your arms quite a work out too.  We must have looked odd before running with a paper bag, but now I'm sure we looked even funnier. 

a sink full of hangers

After bringing them home and cleaning and disinfecting them, I replaced all of our old wire hangers.  ahhh.  It's so satisfying to have matching hangers-- our "closet" looks much more organized now.  Oh what I will do for hangers, and what Quinn will do for me. :)


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*as an interesting side note, becuase of this practice of putting free items on the street, people will sometimes be too quick to take items that weren't intended for the taking.  Once, there was a dinning room table on the street, and then it disappeared.  Then we saw a sign that said "please return the table that was here", and then a few days later a large dinning room table re-appeared.  At least the people who took it were considerate!