Looking for ways to consolidate and organize a baseball hat collection? Don’t want to spend a ton of cash on an organizational solution for hats? This post is all about one of my favorite cheap organizing solutions.
Our hats had been stuffed in the corner of our master bedroom since we moved to our home…over a year ago. It was about time to break them out and start using them.
Plus, summer is coming, and soon we’ll be spending more time outside, and more time wearing hats. It was time to dust off our baseball hat collection, get rid of the hats we weren’t loving, and find a way to organize them.
How to Organize Your Baseball Hats
First, we picked out our favorites, and donated the ones we weren’t using. Notice the Chicago sports theme?
There were a few hats that weren’t adjustable, so we weren’t able to incorporate them in this project. So now, they’re just sitting on a shelf in our closet. Maybe we’ll be able to find a way to use them into the organized-hat project later.
Sad hats! Non-adjustable hats won’t work for this project. 🙁
The hats that do have adjustable straps work well for this project.
Then, we picked up a pack of cheap shower curtain rings from the Dollar Tree. For a dollar. For real.
If you can find the plastic shower curtain rings, I think they would do better for this project. The metal ones worked just fine too.
We attached a ring to each hat, and then we hung each hat on a plastic hanger.
Here’s the final product:
You can easily hang it in your closet, or on a door if you wear hats a lot.
This solution helped us to get the hats off the floor, and it didn’t take up a lot of space in our closet. Plus, it only cost us $1.
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Absolutely genius! I can not wait to pick up a package of these hooks and teach my son a new trick. Just last week I was ready to eliminate some of his hats without him looking (shh, don’t tell him). Thank you so much for sharing at the Home Matters Party! Join us again Friday; the Door Opens at 12am EST.
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Great idea!! While I waa thinking on how to incorporate this for my hats it hit me that there are drapery rings that you can clip to drapes to hang them. That should work! Just wanted to share that with you for the other hats! I can’t wait to try this!
Great idea! Thanks, Cindy.
I was thinking the same thing as I was reading.
I thought of another idea while reading yours. You would start with a hanger like you did. Then purchase a set of curtian rings that hang cafe curtains. There are metal round ones and plastic oval ones. At the bottom of the circle they open to put on the hanger. Then they criss- cross to make a hook. That’s how they hang onto light-weight curtains. But in this case they will clip onto the center front edge of the bill of the hat. You could even hang the fitted hats.
I love it, Lee! Thanks for the great idea!
It will be very messy if we put all into cabinet. I’ll talk to my wife Jenni about this tip. I bet she would love. Thanks Katie.
I bought a 100 pack of D-rings (carabiners) from Amazon for under $10 and use those. They come in all colors so if you have more than one cap collector you can color code them.
Oooh! Good idea!
You can use a binder clip for the non-adjustable hats. Just clipmthe hat, and hang by the pinched part on your curtain ring! 🙂