Wire Coat Hangers

Use wooden hangers.

Prevention : Stop borrowing hangers from hotels and guest houses.

Cure : use a side cutter.

It's static cling. I think Del rubbed up against them. Use "Bounce"!

"has anyone a suggestion as to how to prevent their nesting behaviour?"

Tie them in neat bundles of 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17 hangers depending on the number cluttering up the closet rod. Easy to get just what you need at any time. Use wire ties on the smaller and string on the larger bundles that are seldom opened.

Better yet store the larger bundles elsewhere or dispose of them!

Have you ever counted them before and after? I think it is a normal natural thing we all would be doing if the wife gave us permission, bundle up with each other.

What you need to do is seperate the females from the males and give them each their own wardrobe. When you risk running out of spare coathagers, you carefully choose some good specimens from each wardrobe and put them together.

Realy, how come nobody understands coathangers these days.

You only have to unbend the unused hangers and store only the straight wires. When you need one, it will be easy the grab one and then you only have to bend it...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh wire coathangers!!!

These beasts must be the most useful and verstile devices ever invented!!!

Who hasn't used one to make into something much more useful?

Such as unbending one to reach something under the fridge... or bending one into a cube to cover with filter material to protect a fan from the dust...

They were originally 'invented' by accident in a lampshade manufacturing factory when someone saw an employee take a length of wire and bend it to hang his coat on!!!

John.

That mass of hangers is a breeding cluster.

Now you know why there are ever increasing numbers of them.

They resist, wouldn't you?

take care, they are venomous...

"Who hasn't used one to make into something much more useful?"

Years ago, I used a coat hanger as a welding rod in an emergency (not a critical situation). That was, of course, before they were painted/coated, whatever. When used for welding, they sputter and crackle a lot but they work.

Anyway, back to the current coathanger nightmare, now that we've discovered that they actually have gender. It only makes sense that they would nest (and spoon) and get all entangled and defy you to separate them. Their offspring are even worse! The buggers are incestuous! I don't know about your households, but in mine it seems like each week they spread (insidiously, of course. They know what they're doing).

If I really need just one from the nest, I simply pick it out, grab it with both hands, and quickly drop to my knees, yanking the SOB to kingdom come! Doesn't always get me a useful coathanger but it sure gets rid of the frustration they ususally cause. Now there.

The most perfect curve in creation must be one of your coathangers when you are done with it

Cut in half straighten out rebend and you have two ell rods for finding things in the ground like pipes. great tool.

I had loads of the nasty metal buggers in my workshop as part hangers for painting or drying after degreasing. Had to watch out though, even when cut in half, bent over backwards and hung up on a nail, the damn things are still agressive and will have your eye out given half the chance.

Use Ditto Paper Hangers. www.dittohangers.com They won't tangle at all.

coathangers that don't tangle are NO FUN. And of no use in this thread.

You are just spoiling our fun.

See how long you can play with your coathangers before you have enough? We can play for HOURS!

Am I clear now? can I stop? Yes is it safe to go away?

Dude!!! Whatever you do, don't go anywhere near wire coat hangers!!! Their shape, surprisingly, makes them perfect receivers of 2.4 Ghz broadcasts, which will cause irreparable damage to your DNA!!!

I suggest that you create a suit out of aluminum foil and use a pair of stainless steel tongs to remove all wire hangers! Then, replace them with wood and plastic. Your health and you family's is at serious risk as long as those wire vipers remain within your home!!!

Shit, have I been irrevocably altered already? Ever since that coathanger had my eye out, I keep hearing these low frequency humms in my head which change pitch when I close my mouth and nose and try to sneeze!

That also gives me a rotten headache and a dull feeling behind my remaining good eye.

I think I better lay down now, somebody else can remove the wire hangers.

Wire coat hangers are third-generation descendants of the famous clowning families, Topol and OGee. Are you surprised they can't resist fooling around and twisting you and each-other in knots?

When I moved into my first apartment I brought along a goodly handful of wire coat hangers. In spite of this, I could never find one when I needed it. I asked my mother for more and she gave me a large bundle. She seemed very happy to get rid of them - and I soon discovered why! The new bundle brought the hanger count in my closet up to the minimum breeding number, and they have been multiplying profusely ever since!

Of course, I can't bring myself to throw any of them away - as has been previously noted in this thread, they're just too doggone USEFUL.

Note: Wooden hangers don't multiply, nor do the pretty color-coordinated plastic ones. I suspect they're sterile hybrids.

NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!!!

What no one suggested using the humble coat-hanger as a antenna for their car radio? Very stylish.

I did this back 30 yrs ago in Nevada when I rented a car and found the arial broken off.

And no one yet has mentioned making attractive and rewarding Christmas decorations out of them. Come on, it's only a couple of weeks away that Blue Peter (sincere apologies to those whose childhodds were deprived of benefit of The BBC) will be showing us for the forty-something-th consecutive year.

Ah forgot, BBC out of money and slumped in deepest naval gazing resulting form infiltration by PC activists and loss or feebleness of managerial function.