All Hung Up

Santa showed up this year…..in a brown uniform, masked as a UPS driver.   I knew he was a “new guy” and had something special for me because unlike most delivery guys who just chuck packages over the side of my patio gate, this guy knocked gently on the gate door, waited for me to open it, and handed a giant box to me with a smile on his face.  I smiled back and told him to have a great day.  Santa…..

Here’s the giant box:

I opened it immediately. 

Here’s what was inside:

My jaw dropped when saw it all.  I knew immediately which one of Santa’s elves had his ear – Katie! 

Here’s the thing, when you have a blog about products you love, friends (followers) are always telling you about products they love.  And that’s awesome!  I want to try anything someone else loves!  But my little “rule” for this “very big deal” blog I’ve got going here is that if I’m going to write about it, I need to love it.  

Elf Katie has loved Huggable Hangers from Day 1.  She told me about them on Day 1 of this blog; she wanted me to love them.  So I received them.  I tried them.  And I do LOVE them!  Here’s why:

They are saving my favorite Club Monaco tissue t-shirts from slipping off plastic hangers (because the Huggables are wide, with arches at just the right spot, and are covered in velvet, helping clothes stay put):

They’re keeping my wide-necked shirts on hangers:

Anything with a spaghetti strap gets hung up on a Huggable and just stays put (goodbye plastic hangers with those annoying little mini curved hooks that are supposed to help with this, but don’t!):

They’re holding up dresses that otherwise require safety-pins-hooked-to-dry-cleaner-hangers or annoying-hidden-ribbons-hooked-and-wrapped-around-aforementioned-mini-curved-hooks:  

Despite their very slim design, the Huggables are quite sturdy.  My heavier jackets are now on appropriate hangers!:

If you’re like me, you probably haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about hanger design.  But check this out….Huggable Hangers are shaped the way our neck/shoulder area is shaped.  Traditional plastic hangers are not shaped the way our neck/shoulder area is shaped.  How has this never come up?! 

To sum it all up, Huggable Hangers:

• Are slimmer than most hangers (read: closet space-saver)
• But they are sturdy and could handle the weight of heavy dresses and jackets
• Are nice and wide, so you clothes are more likely to stay hung and less likely to come off a hanger with shoulder divots from hangers that drop mid-shoulder.
• Have long necks on their chrome hooks, which is nice for turtlenecks or scoop necks
• Mimic the shape of our bodies, so clothing hangs similar to the way it hangs on your body. 
•  *You can order them in kid size, too!

So far, nothing bad to say about them.

A little more about the product, though. . .

The Huggable Hanger is Home Shopping Network's all-time best-selling product.  Stylists, organization experts, and even Oprah love Huggable Hangers!  They were invented by American mom/inventor/entrepreneur, Joy Mangano.  She has said, "I'm just like everybody else out there. I'm a mom, I work, I have a house to clean, things to organize. We all have certain similar needs, and I address them."

You can find Huggable Hangers here, in a rainbow of colors:

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What was I waiting for?  I need more!  And goodbye dry cleaner hangers that I held onto because the foam padded-wrapped wire hangers kept things in place better than plastic hangers.  Goodbye you ugly little things!

And I want this closet.  Dear Santa……