With an easy landing spot, there are no more excuses!
If you have a young – or not so young – man in your life who wears a black hat on a regular basis, chances are you’re annoyed by the amount of time it spends on the dining room table. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, consider yourself very very lucky!
The simplest way to avoid seeing that hat on the table is to provide an even easier place for it to be put down when the wearer comes into the house. But if you don’t like the look of a hat hook or rack in your entrance, you can simply hide the hook.
The back of any door that swings open will work. And no hardware is needed. Simply attach one of these sturdy Command hooks and it’s ready for a hat. (The double style hook holds a hat better than a single hook.) Just position the hook at approximately the height of the rod so the hanging clothing won’t bump the hat. And then put one hook below it for the blazer.
That’s it, boys! No more hats on the table!
Great idea! Unless you have more hat wearing boys than closet doors…
exactly what I was thinking!
Consider yourself ‘very very lucky’ if you don’t know about hats that spend time on the dining room table? seriously? I personally find this post useful but just want to point out that anyone with this ‘problem’ should consider themselves very very lucky to HAVE black hats on their dining room table. I am grateful for a better way to store them, but it’s not a crisis!
I think Esti meant to consider yourself lucky if your boys actually put their hats away- not if you have no boys at all…
am I right, Esti? ????
I’m sure it wasn’t meant as ‘if you don’t have boys at all consider yourself very very lucky’. It just seemed like it’s a major problem to have black hats that stay on the table.
Definitely this! And yes, the superlative was somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
Of course! This post by Shiffy Friedman addresses a similar concept: https://betweencarpools.com/why-even-a-mess-is-a-blessing/
Of course we’re grateful for messy kids, but that doesn’t mean one doesn’t want to figure out ways to keep things more orderly!
Right, what a great article! agreed, that’s why I made sure to mention that I’m grateful for a way to store them.
This is AWESOME!! Just got my hooks today and im hooked 😉
For those who have more hats than closet doors, I have my hooks hanging on the wall by the basement steps which is near my entrance. Great use of space, easy access AND out of sight most of the time.
Yes!! I put up those command hooks a few months ago, but sigh the dining table is still the default, did you know its much easier. ???? And BH, our menfolk are wearing their hats and jackets, , we are lucky for that., 1000%..
I’ll try the double hook idea????
What a great idea! I’m making my first bar mitzvah
Was so excited to try this, but when I try to hang my son’s hat on the hook, it keeps sliding off!