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Matthew HaugheyEach day, someone is born that didn’t know the internet classic™ way to keep your hotel room’s blackout curtains together using the pants holder thingy on a hotel clothes hanger
Merlin MannYabba-Dabba-Life-Hack!
Michael B. Johnson@mathowie so great.
mako
yertle@mathowie look at Mr. Fancypants in a hotel with removable hangers 😬
Pusher of Pixels
AI6YR Ben@mathowie OH hey, that's handy!
Matt Blaze@mathowie The invention and deployment of the Internet was worth it just to enable the dissemination of this piece of advice.
Nazani@mathowie Only if there are enough. Otherwise they are for hanging up the underwear you washed in the sink.
Dinah 🕊🇺🇦@mathowie
TIL
How did I not know this back in my highly online and hotel staying days?!
Farce Majeure@mathowie that's a skirt hanger.
Amye Scavarda Perrin@vathpela @mathowie it's a "omg this hotel room sucks" remediation device and @Obdurodon was the first person I saw using it
Jeff ♨️ Darcy@amye @vathpela @mathowie FWIW, this was at the Marriott Lake Union (Seattle) in 2018. I'm sure I wasn't the first to have the idea, but it was original in the sense that I was unaware of precedents when I thought of it. After I posted on Xitter, it got into a bunch of "life hack" listicles, almost always using my picture to remove any doubt about where they got it. I'm probably better known for that than for anything I ever did professionally.
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
Elizabeth@mathowie That only works in hotels where the hanger can be removed from the closet rail. Sometimes they are fastened permanently into the closet to prevent theft.
Tokyo By Bike@mathowie A solid tip from the Journal of Night Shift workers.
JL Johnson 
Jobu Tupakiomg how am i just now learning this awesome technique 🗒️✍🏻
Melancholic Mediocrity 
Kirsten Millar@mathowie @LibertyForward1 came here to second this emoji
Pseudo Nym"Each day someone is born not knowing..."?
Don't be silly, if they were just born they all don't know this. They are new born babies. They can't get hotel rooms.
I mean, that's just science.
But good life hack anyway.
Rico@mathowie Thanks! I keep using the free bedside pen’s clip but sometimes it comes off.
Vickie 🇨🇦 😷@mathowie today is my day then. 🙂
Thanks!
@mathowie Swedish people, used to sleeping through midnight sun nights: "curtains?"
LittleScrapsoftheNorth
Super Ratboy 64@mathowie I have been born again
Ness@mathowie I was today years old when I learned this. Thank you 
@mathowie
I’ve come across a subset of #LifeHack called #Teenage Life Hacks
https://lor.sh/@SNerd/112587382076812448
I’ve come across a subset of #LifeHack called #Teenage Life Hacks
https://lor.sh/@SNerd/112587382076812448
Stanley Nerdlinger (@[email protected])
#Teenage #LifeHack - You can save time by throwing your dirty clothes directly on the floor rather than in the hamper for dirty clothes 2 steps away #nerlingersjokes
Sumukha S@mathowie This is a such a heartwarming post.
Rod In Boise@mathowie Now that’s even easier than carrying a couple of binder clips.
CubeOfCheese
tommy@mathowie genius
Pterry@mathowie lucky 10.000 😁
Nemoudeis
Bleistifterin@mathowie please someone link to the obligatory xkcd already
Matthewhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/841:_Audiophiles
Mentions alligator-clipped hangers.
@mrblissett @mathowie thank you for your service although it does seem to refer to a completely different phenomenon.
Any xkcd is good though. Is there a bot already?
Edit:
I think I meant this one:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1053:_Ten_Thousand
@mrblissett now *this* is brilliant and goes directly to the top of my bookmarks! Thank you
Martin Vermeer FCD@bleistifterin @mathowie Sadly, only adjacent ones
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/236:_Collecting_Double-Takes
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/841:_Audiophiles
Don't forget to mouse-over
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@mathowie I didn't know and I'm not young. Never had a gap there though. Still good to know.
Primo@mathowie TODAY I LEARNED!
xs4me2@mathowie Hmmm, never thought of that. Thanks!
0x33@mathowie Today I'm one of the 10,000.
Brendan Thompson@mathowie @matthewcassinelli Hahahha I’ve done this so many times!!
SkipfordJ@mathowie Today, I am one of the ten thousand.
Kim@mathowie Related tip: Most clothes can be dried overnight if you can contrive the right arrangement of hotel room coat-hangers and fan.
Stewart Russell@mathowie this has been touring musician and all-round good egg Joe Newberry's hotel hack for decades.
Also, all hotel hangers can be removed with enough force