Thanks to the morons at Comcast, I haven't had TV for the past three weeks, but it hasn't kept me from breaking down and joining the cult of Joy Mangano. I just bought my first 2 dozen Joy Mangano huggable hangers and in about 2 minutes I'm going back to Bed Bath & Beyond for more. Lots more.
Not familiar with huggable hangers? You mean you've never watched that annoying woman, Joy Mangano on HSN? Well, I now bow down to this daughter of Long Island because she is right, dammit. Her velvety flocked hangers really DO double your closet space. They keep flimsy things from falling off the hangers and puddling on the floor of your closet. And as Joy would say, "It's a closet revolution . . .no more shoulder bumps!" I NEED more.
Huggable hangers are stupidly, moronically AMAZING and now all I want for Christmas or Hanukkah or my birthday (July 30th) is MORE HANGERS. Joy, with your Lawnguyland accent and your horrible hair you are my huswifery goddess, my downsizing muse. I get you. I love you, you scrappy little boomer-home-improvement-wench.
It all happened because I have today and tomorrow off for Shavuot, a Jewish holiday ( I work for a Jewish social service agency) and I MUST get my clothes out of boxes and into the er, closets? We have guests from New York coming this weekend and it's really time to bit the bullet and unpack.
The unpacking was actually coming along OK with one big exception. Closets. We don't have very many in this little bungalow and the ones we have are the tiny 1920's kind -- which is even worse than the 1960's ranch house kind. I have now come to believe that in the 1920's southern women in Druid HIlls simply didn't have clothes. I believe they wore the same 5 dresses in rotation and had their maids make sure those 5 dresses were always laundered, starched and ready to roll. In those sweet and simple days people also sent things into cold storage for the summer and also put slipcovers on the furniture for the warm months.
What a concept. We would now applaud this as a "green" way of living.
Saintly mom that I am, when we moved here I gave Gabe the gi-normous bedroom (22' X 12') which has a quite adequate closet but a crappy bathroom. I took the "middle room" in this house, which is utterly without closets but which is adjacent to the nice renovated Pottery Barn bathroom. So my little bedroom is now dominated by a fabulous wall of armoires from Fortunoff that I bought upon leaving the Motherland, Long Island. This mighty Wall-O-Storage used to reside in the old house in the Bed & Breakfast guest suite. Little did I know that it would become my main clothing storage space when I moved. [Please note that the TV is parked in the right hand unit, so really all I have is the two units on the left, and the caps on top.] It's a comedown...it's humbling, and we won't even talk about where to put the shoes. That's too depressing.
But bring on the huggable hangers. Black, please. Luv ya Joy.
Hello "Voted,"
You are hilarious. Thanks for the chuckles. I own a closet design and installation company called Closet Revolution, which means "Home storage design for more than just clothes." I've not yet tried huggable hangers. Do they work for suit jackets and trousers? Also for storage in addition to your swanky unit from Fortunoff, we'd be able to maximize storage space in your small closets. After all, we do alot of work in Manhattan, land of no closet space!
Thanks again, Janet
www.closetrevolution.com
Posted by: Janet Valenza | June 12, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Cabinets and countertops offer the much-needed storage space in the bathroom to store your toiletries, keep medicines and first-aid box, cleaning milk, moisturizer and deodorants, towels and napkins besides other things that you use daily while showering in your bath. They are powerful accents to your bath décor and help you to define the tone and style of the bathroom wall cabinets and make the best use of the wall and floor surface of the area. http://bathroom-wall-cabinets.blogspot.com .
Posted by: Bathroom Wall Cabinets | June 25, 2008 at 04:04 AM
hi. on an off chance, do you know the name of the manufacturer of the armoire? i have the same one and need a replacement drawer and as you know, fortunoffs is gone.
Posted by: lisa | May 10, 2010 at 05:46 PM