Jon Jones
TindraPeriodic reminder that if you’re in a hotel where the blackout curtains have an annoying gap and won’t stay closed, the hangars with the clippies are great at holding them together so you can actually get some darkness and sleep.
Tj@TindrasGrove This works !
Andrew Jimenez@TindrasGrove life-changing stuff
~n@TindrasGrove A hotel with hangers that have an actual hook? What’s next? A doctor for teeth?
J. Martin@TindrasGrove Personally, I can sleep on the surface of the sun if I have to. But it’s a terrific motel/hotel hack when I’m staying with friends who go into Al Pacino/Alaska mode at the first whiff of sunlight, so thank you!!!
Greg Bell@TindrasGrove parking lot lights don't want you to know this one weird trick!
secureisd@TindrasGrove @briankrebs DoubleTree McGyver!
Yuki "neige d'aout" Hazuki 膤 ❄️ 
@TindrasGrove provided you can actually remove the hangers from the closet
@Yuki even the ones where the hook is permanently affixed to the bar usually have a means of removing the hangar itself.
…or this is just a result of the class of places I tend to stay at.
@TindrasGrove oh yeah I guess you're right, I remember something where the hook is affixed to the bar but the hanger isn't permanently affixed to the hook, that's kind of clever and something you usually don't realize until you accidentally unhook it and figure out how to get it back on
Legally Zoé@Yuki @TindrasGrove Yeah I think they do that so you don't steal the hangers and bring them home.
Because of course some people would steal hangers.
Because of course some people would steal hangers.
Rachel Lense (she/her)@hotkey @Yuki @TindrasGrove Hey, wooden hangers are expensive! Not that I would steal them--I only take the lotions. Though I did steal a couple pot holders when our house was destroyed and we were forced to live in a hotel for a few months... 😅
@rachellense @Yuki @TindrasGrove Sorry about your house 😱
I still have 5+ year old lotions in my bathroom for some reason. I'm pretty sure I'll never use them 😅
@hotkey @Yuki @TindrasGrove
Growing up in the 60s, my dad claimed that all hotels had those good wood suit hangers just for the purpose of advertising and he had a closet full of them. He regularly claimed that, "Those rules are for other people".
My regular sleep kit includes Melatonin, a blackout mask and Bluetooth earbuds. You can also pack mini clothespins for those stubborn curtains.
Dave Wilburn 
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Anne@TindrasGrove @ShaulaEvans this is the kind of content I’m here for
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Ross of Ottawa@TindrasGrove seems a good spot to also advocate bringing some black electrical tape along so you can block the TV's power LED from burning a hole in your retina like a laser in the darkness.
Such Doge~~@ottaross @TindrasGrove omg! I usually use room service menus and stuff like that to cover the lights… obvs way less effective than your method
@suchdoge @TindrasGrove yeah been there too, balancing various things to block the dang things.
jo@ottaross @TindrasGrove a few winds of 1” black gaff tape on the end of a sharpie marker can be a super clutch thing to have in your bag
@jph @TindrasGrove 100 uses.
Alan Dayley@TindrasGrove great reminder of a good idea. A backup is to keep two binder clips in your suitcase to use for this purpose.
Cetraria@TindrasGrove having stayed in hundreds of different hotel rooms from cheap and skeezy to 5-star, from homey B&B to corporate, I've never had this problem.
Every place I've been, the curtains have all had a top/bottom flap orientation. Once you figure out which is which, you need to pull them closed in the proper (in towards you/out towards the window) direction. If you do, they'll nicely overlap every time.
Oh, and pack a lightweight sleep mask, because the odds are good that the freaking hall lights and 16 little stupid LEDs around the room will make curtains pointless.
@Cetraria @TindrasGrove I’ve had this problem quite a few times. Sometimes the curtain rails are broken also.
a1@Cetraria @TindrasGrove Gaffer tape. Always bring gaffer tape.
@ar1 @TindrasGrove or drape all the various towels over things, in a pinch. 😅
Jeremy Lusk@TindrasGrove Well, I can stop packing spring clamps!
JB@TindrasGrove also traveling with a chip clip or two, or similar… Or a good length of gaff tape that you have wrapped around a credit card sized hub in your wallet.
Sadly, there’s not much that can be done about all the light coming in the top, if there isn’t a good valance around it.
Sadly, there’s not much that can be done about all the light coming in the top, if there isn’t a good valance around it.
Berkubernetus@TindrasGrove OMG, you WIN "useful minor hack of the day"!!!
🦣丁斯特Dingster@TindrasGrove @eurozerozero This ! Literally!
eurozerozero@leftsidestory @TindrasGrove This is a true “life hack”! 😀
recursive 🏳️🌈@TindrasGrove this is the way
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@TindrasGrove I like the hangars. 😂
Impossible Umbrella 
@TindrasGrove Amazing! I’d never thought of that. 👏
Jeff ♨️ Darcy@TindrasGrove I love the fact that this is still going around. The picture was taken at the Marriott on the SW side of Lake Union (near what is now the old FB office) BTW.
@Obdurodon yup! I saw it on birdsite some years ago, and as my mentions prove many people have never seen it, I keep posting it every time I use it.
zev@Obdurodon @TindrasGrove Heh, I've probably used those as makeshift bottle openers more times than I've actually hung clothes on them.
Chris BussardThank you! This is brilliant.
@TindrasGrove if the trolley of the service staff doesn't have mugs on it, how do you think they clean your coffee mugs? I always have a little detergent and a cleaning brush for dishes in my suitcases (next to the gaffer tape, a dish-towel, a suitable source of light and some other trinkets). Plus clamps for the curtains.
B-rad 🏳️🌈👨💻@TindrasGrove @cwbussard I love this tip but there are too many hotels that don’t even have blackout curtains or even more infuriating they have heavy curtains but they are just decorative and only the sheer curtains close 