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Theeagleandtheowl · RV-Dreams Community Member

Ready to hang it up

manycats · RV-Dreams Family Member

Once in a while clothes will slip off the hangers but the hangers themselves do not fall. Since most of the clothes on hangers are short and leave an empty space on the bottom of the closets I use plastic drawers for folded T-shirts and underwear, also a bin for shoes. Once closet doors are closed everything stays in place. Won't vouch for what happens when you go through Louisiana - some rough roads there!

I haven't found a way to keep clothes totally secure but we don't need more than 1/4 of the clothes we use in the S&B. Completely different lifestyle, no need to dress up.

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

Our current RV came with a rod, so they are not all like that. I am sure it would not be hard to add a rod, just put in extra brackets along the length and lots of small screws. With a rod you can use all manner of hangers, not just the wire ones.

We had a slot rail in our old RV that accepted wire hangers. I added extra screws with glue to keep the rail up, since it came down after a bumpy ride. The clothes stayed on the hangers.

Clay L · RV-Dreams Family Member

The closet rods in mine came with a corrugated plastic cover that has a slit along the length so it could be slipped on. Never had any hangers come off (even on I40 across LA).

Camper Chronicles · RV-Dreams Family Member

We bought these special hangers that "lock" onto the bar so they dont slide back and forth and are shorter at the neck so you lose less space at the top of the closet. Big fan of them

The Bear II · RV-Dreams Family Member

We have the slotted rail and don't have a problem with clothes or the hangers falling. We use two types of hangers... the thick large plastic hangers you can get at most department stores and dollar stores.

The newer type hangers are space saving, are coated with a velvety material that holds onto the clothes. QVC, Bed Bath & Beyond for these type.

Dave Buck · RV-Dreams Family Member

We use the same hangers as Larry "The Bear" We got ours at Wal-Mart. Clothes don't slide off.

Barbaraok · RV-Dreams Family Member

Clay L wrote:
The closet rods in mine came with a corrugated plastic cover that has a slit along the length so it could be slipped on. Never had any hangers come off (even on I40 across LA).

Pretty sure you meant I-10 across LA (or maybe I-20).

Barb

Alie and Jims Carrilite · RV-Dreams Family Member

Gotta be I-10 across LA, 20 was pretty good. 10 though will knock your teeth out.

Jo And Craig · RV-Dreams Family Member

First of all, let me start out by saying that we have the MorRyde Independent Suspension. This system greatly reduces the earthquake effect most RVs experience and, therefore, our belongings do not tumble around while in transit. I say this because those of us with the MorRyde I/S do have an advantage. Or, should I say, there is a huge advantage to having a MorRyde I/S system?

To answer your inquiry regarding storage, we have a 6-shelf linen closet, 6-drawer dresser with large drawers, and a closet in our bedroom. In the linen closet, DH has two shelves for his folded clothes, I have two shelves for my folded clothes, and the bottom two shelves are for linens. DH has half of the dresser drawers and I use other three for underclothes and miscellaneous. We do have some hanging clothes, but not many. We have never had an issue with clothes bouncing off the closet rod. Again, probably because of the MorRyde I/S. Additionally, we use the shelves inside the closet for more folded clothes, among other things. Does anything fall off the closet shelves while in transit? Nope! We purchased barrier netting online and stretched a net across each shelf. Perfect! To access each shelf all we must do is pull down on the netting (top down) to remove or replace something on that particular shelf. No need to unhook the netting each time. It remains in place at all times.

As far as shoes, mine are average size (unlike DH's) so we purchased one of those canvas multi-shoe holders at Camping World and screwed it to the foot of the bed. There, it is hidden from plain sight by the bedspread overhang. We have a king Sleep Number bed so the size of the mattress is wide enough that it also provides additional storage under both sides of the bed. For example, I have a basket with miscellaneous stuff on one side at the foot of the bed. When we pull in the slide, I don't even have to move it. And, I also have a piece of carry-on luggage standing on its side between that basket and the slide step-up (totally out of the way) that I do sit on top of the bed each time we move, but all doable. On the other side, DH also has a basket, and instead of another carry-on, he has a box of wine that we simply side out each time we pull in the slide.

I'm sure many others have some awesome organizing secrets that we could all learn from, but I have a lot of fun organizing in a simplistic way. I'm not a big fun of a lot of "stuff"!

For the Dreamers who have a 3-piece shower door and can't figure out how to clean the runners at the bottom, let me know if you would like to know how I keep ours dry... and clean!

Fun stuff!!

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

We have the good fortune to have the Trail-Air suspension and Trail-Air pin box on our Mobile Suites, so it has a very smooth ride, similar to the Mor/Ryde system. We modified our closet rod because it was a cheap plastic one with fairly small "sections" for where the hangers go. Jo went to the store and bought a 4-foot shelf kit and we modified it to fit in place of the cheap plastic one. I have a review of that modification at my blog under the title of "Another RV Modification Made."

Jo purchased some clothes hangers from Bed, Bath, and Beyond a few years ago that have a "hook" on the front where one can also hang other shirts or pants. Those have a kind-of fabric lining on the outside that prevent clothes from slipping off the hanger.

Terry

Clay L · RV-Dreams Family Member

Barbaraok wrote:
Clay L wrote:
The closet rods in mine came with a corrugated plastic cover that has a slit along the length so it could be slipped on. Never had any hangers come off (even on I40 across LA).
Pretty sure you meant I-10 across LA (or maybe I-20).

Barb

Yes I did! Brain fart I guess.

WestWardHo · RV-Dreams Family Member

We never had clothes falling off the rod either before or after installing the MorRyde IS system. Perhaps that was because I had tons of hanging clothes in there- so many Jesse had to reinforce the rod to keep it from pulling out from the weight 😩! We kept one plastic box of cold weather clothes in the basement but never needed any of it because we could layer up with everything we had inside.

Sherry