Tackless and Broken

Broken cardboard tube removed
Pant Hanger:  dead.

How many lives can a dead pant hanger live?  You know your pant hangers are dead when the cardboard tubes loses their tackiness and the pants fall off unless balanced perfectly.  You know your pant hangers are dead when the tubes slump into an upside-down arches and the pants rumple in compliance creating unsightly lines around the knees when you put them on.  You know your pant hangers are dead when the tubes just snaps under the load making odd parallelograms unsuitable for anything.










But Things I get to do today sometimes embrace the unsuitable and the broken.  This piece of wire with a hanger hook in the middle supporting the two smaller hooks on the end will be repurposed.  Last ski season was the beginning:  my husband's parka water bottles have always been difficult to drain and dry after a day on the slopes.  A hole punch made a neat hole in the margin at the bottom.  Over the hooks and up to drain and dry--a problem no more.








Garden gloves were next to beg a better drier that would let their fingers spread.

Other uses are stored in your imaginations!  Grab this handy hook and get cracking.  Please share your ideas with the rest of us!

Cranberry Sauce in April

Things are all mixed up.  This post is for Tuesday, and you thought cranberry sauce went with Christmas or Thanksgiving turkey. Welcome to my world.  4/11/12 post will be up later today, and cans of cranberries are part of a new tip on making your clothing fit better.





I love "hand-me-ups." My daughter's closet has a seasonal shed, and I come home the richer.  One new-to-me item is a sweater that will be perfect for the yard but is not so perfect in length in the body.  It is also a bit on the wide side.

It was still damp for its trip through the wash as I stretched out the body.  With knits it's magic that one can make a garment longer and narrower all at the same time.  The only problem was that the Things I get to do today did not include holding the sweater in its new, longer shape until it dried.  I had to get going on the kiwi trellis before the rains came again. Who can I hire to hold the sweater?







Handy Andy's brain was on a buzz.  I saw some big clamps:  Old-style pant hangers!  I saw weights: cans of cranberry sauce.  I saw them working together: cans in a recycled plastic bag tied to the hook on the hanger.  I saw a nice long sweater. Hooray!