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What do you do with Plastic Coathangers?

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  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,027 Forumite
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    We take some of ours on holiday to an apartment where we stay, there's never enough coat hangers there, so we leave what we take behind.

    ETA these are ones supplied by the dry cleaners. We never have ones from the clothes shops anymore as we have more than enough.
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  • phoebe1989seb
    phoebe1989seb Posts: 4,452 Forumite
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    edited 4 December 2017 at 12:03PM
    Have stopped buying clothes - have way too many, most at least ten years old - so no longer have this problem ;)

    Edited to add - recalled that I bought one item of clothing this year (new Levi jeans from TK M). These were on a metal hanger that I wasn't offered the option of keeping.......
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  • paddy's_mum
    paddy's_mum Posts: 3,977 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Give your plastic ones to those charity shops who insist on using their own metal hangers that assault my ears and put my teeth screeeeeeechinly on edge if I attempt to move clothes along the rail!
  • Biggles
    Biggles Posts: 8,209 Forumite
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    It just isn't a problem. The shop assistant always says 'Do you want the hanger? and I always say 'No'. Problem solved. A poll for this is plain silly.
  • northwalesd
    northwalesd Posts: 1,317 Forumite
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    Our local authority takes them from the recycling bin.
  • J_B
    J_B Posts: 6,814 Forumite
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    I'm really amused that mine is the 17th comment, but only two folks have voted!

    Maybe we should have a poll about pointless polls? :rotfl:
  • seashore22
    seashore22 Posts: 1,443 Forumite
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    Nope..........
    None of the charity shops in my area will take them.
    In fact they get a bit uppity if you even suggest the dreaded 'coat hanger' words.
    HTH

    Same here.
  • bertiewhite
    bertiewhite Posts: 1,904 Forumite
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    I find shops are much less willing to supply hangers with clothes these days and I usually have to ask for them.

    Another one who would like a "leave things alone" option in the poll here.
  • shortcrust
    shortcrust Posts: 2,697 Forumite
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    If you buy enough clothes for this to be a problem then the problem is you’re buying too many clothes.
  • carlislelass
    carlislelass Posts: 1,776 Forumite
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    elsien wrote: »
    Donate them to charity shops.


    Ours won't accept them
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