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[–] callyral@pawb.social 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know what's going on in the image.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 20 hours ago

They're using the clip on a hangar to hold some curtains shut, I think? I guess a certain type of curtains hotels like to buy has a tendency to not quite close the gap completely?

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

This is just fucking simple and brilliant.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The best hotel room hack I know lets you unlock the AC so you can get some actual cool air.

https://youtu.be/Eo6P1-yN3TM

[–] jwt@programming.dev 3 points 21 hours ago

real life konami code

[–] Bremmy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Wow, saving this video. Thanks!

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 89 points 2 days ago (16 children)

The cost range of my hotels usually means that those hangars have loops at the top not hooks, and can't be removed from the closet

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 98 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Even the ones with hoops instead of hooks can be removed (in my experience, anyway). Super awkward otherwise.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

This has been my experience as well

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I believe I did stay at one property where they weighed cost of the inconvenience as lower than the cost of the theft - completely locked to the rod

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bring a set of tools and take the hangers and the rod too, just for spite

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just one simple trick. Hotel owners hate this.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Usually in a place that classy it's so you can't hang yourself.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I've also always thought that was a cost/theft issue, but I wonder if its also to prevent people from trying to use the hook-type hangers from hanging things from fire suppression sprinkler heads.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Good point. I recently stayed somewhere with a bolted sign by the sprinkler heads that said not to hang anything on them, lol. Makes me think it happens...a lot.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just overlap the curtains?

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 71 points 2 days ago (2 children)

many hotels cheap out and have crappy curtains that are designed in such a way that it can't be overlapped

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

which means they also don't have cloth hangers with clips so you need to pack one each time...

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Blast! Cut off at the pass.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

It was a solid effort.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've never needed this. But I feel like those for witch this is mind blowing could also have paid a couple of bucks for a clamp from the hardware store and put that in their luggage.

[–] rascalnikov@literature.cafe 24 points 1 day ago

why do that when those are there for free and hardly used? I guess it is better to have your own clamps, in case the particular hotel you might be staying at has different types of hangers that don't have clamps.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes everyone remembers the niche circumstance-specific irritation when they get back home, especially those who hotel infrequently.

This is a cool tip, and I appreciate it.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sure, it's legal in my country.

[–] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

For now, sure.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 day ago

Tbh I don't think I've ever seen one in real life. I just use a dryer.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m traveling right now and will do this when I get back to my hotel.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Let us know you're ok afterwards

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m starting to get nervous something went wrong

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Clamped it around his neck, seen this tragedy a dozen times

Lets just sprinkle some crack on him and get out of here

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[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I am not really sure what's going on in this picture

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They used a hanger to keep closed those useless curtains that are in a lot of hotels.

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[–] cardboardchris@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

I travel with a couple of binder clips for exactly this reason. I never thought of using a hanger with clips though!

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Done this many times. It helps so much when you don't need to be up at the crack of dawn.

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