Repurpose a hanger into a chip clip
Have some unneeded plastic hangers at your house? Repurpose them into chip clips!
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Andrea says:
I’ve been looking for something like this! I immediately went and found some hangers when I saw this post. I used the heavy wire top kind and left it as a hanger to be able to hang it on my pantry wire storage units.
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Kristen says:
I really like this idea!
You can also use those types of hangers to hang in the laundry room to keep socks that have lost its mate.
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Julia says:
I use the ones that come on toddler clothes not for chip clips but to help with my baking. I put all my recipes in plastic sheet protector sleeves I then will clip a hanger onto a recipe when I am going to use and hang from my cabinet door. That way I am not using up counter space with the recipe and it is right at eye level.
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Rae says:
great idea! (the chip clip idea is a good one too but I have tons of heavy duty ones from free events) I am limited on counter space as well and the recipes I print out are usually disgusting from being on the counter during cooking/baking from sitting on the counter.
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I use those plastic sleeve protectors for paper to put my recipes into that I print off as well as recipe pages I tear out of magazines. Then I place them in a binder and when I need to use one I pop it out of the binder and take it to the kitchen with me. If it gets splatters on it, I can just wipe it off the plastic sleeve with a cloth when I am done baking. Really has saved on having to re-print recipes because of them getting ruined while baking.
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Kim J. says:
I have one of these clothes hangers and use it to hold recipe books (the smaller paperback cover type) when I’m cooking. Clip the book with the clips and hang it over your cabinet door handles!! No more messy cookbooks with food spills!!
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LadybugRed10 says:
OMG!! I just hate throwing away broken hangers!!! Now I know what to do with the “good” clip!!
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Hey!! That’s fantastic! I usually tell the cashier to keep the hangers since I don’t need them, but I’ll start keeping them if they are “free” clips. Why didn’t I think of this?! LOL
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Emilie says:
I too tell them to keep them as they rip my garbage bags. I will now take them!!!!
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That’s a cool idea! I usually use those hangers for hanging my skirts and pants to dry.
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Beckie says:
I must be such a weakling! How do I “break” the hanger?? I’m afraid I’ll break the clip part!
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Courtney says:
I think it looks like the hanger was cut instead of broken. If you have a mini hacksaw that should easily cut it. If you don’t have one, they’re pretty cheap at any hardware store. You wouldn’t need a fancy one, and they can be used for LOTS of things, not just hangers. 🙂
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I actually did this with a broken pants hanger awhile back and it never crossed my mind that it was a great idea or to ever do it again with those pants hangers they leave on my clothes at the store! Silly me for having a great idea and not even realizing it! I will blame it on my kid brain… 🙂
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Barbara says:
This is the best tip I have come across. Great idea, thanks for sharing!!!! I can’t wait to go home and try this
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I never would have thought of this, great tip! We use clothes pins as our chip clips but this would be useful too!
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Casey says:
ditto! I usually end up recycling them. I’m all about reduce, reuse, recycle…. re-use it often forgotten. LOVE this!!
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Tonya from http://seashoreslagenweits.blogspot.com says:
So, I just had one of those “why didn’t I ever think of that” moments:) Great Idea. Love it!!
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Eliza's Mom says:
This is a great idea, but I’m too lazy to go that extra mile and cut the ends off a hanger… My house is littered with pinching clothes pins. We use them as chip clips; a few have magnets to hold recipes or important notes etc. to the fridge; some in the office to hold together important papers or coupons that are awaiting filing; a few even serve as curtain tie-backs in the kitchen. And then, if I ever need them, I have plenty to do their intended job – hang clothes on the laundry line. 🙂
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Okay, so I totally just ran to my closet to try this… broke first hanger and realized it wouldn’t work broken because it was the kind with metal through the middle… so gonna recycle the pieces of that one. Next one I try to break, it bends… won’t break! The other I’m not too sure HOW to break. Anyone have any good ideas? Then I remembered I bought some of those white clips that you can attach to a white store bought hanger to hang pants or whatever. I didn’t end up using them because it made my pants hang so low and no space underneith. I kept the clips in a drawer though for who knows what, but I still have them! Perfect ready made clips! I almost bought some today at the $1 store SO glad I didn’t. THis is just brilliant!
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A mini hacksaw should do the trick to cut through the plastic of the hangers. You should probably be able to pick one up pretty cheap (if you don’t already have one) at any hardware store.
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Wendy says:
Terrific idea!!! Now I’m going to start keeping those hangers 🙂
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Elizabeth says:
GREAT IDEA…only problem at this house is that is the part that goes BAD and the hanger is discarded!!
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I could break them off easily, when the hangers were a bit thinner but hadn’t found an easy way to “break” the clips off the thicker ones. So, I clicked and kept clicking until I got all the way to the poster of this tip and found that she sawed them off. Now I’ll be asking my husband or grown boys to declip these for me.
I have been using the spring type clothes pins. It is amazing how quickly you can misplace 50 clothes pins in a house with 5 people. I get these from the Dollar Tree and they didn’t have any for quite some time. I was glad to see they had some more a month or so ago.
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Michele says:
I’ve been doing this for years, works like a charm! I use them on all kinds of items, not just chip bags – experiment, you will be surprised how handy they are!
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