How do you organize your hats?

[Kanoito]

We moved to our new place about a year ago and we still have some boxes left unopened. I was looking for gloves to play my first round of the season and found a box with about 30 hats: your standard baseball caps, visors, etc...

Now, with all the sweat and dirt, it's probably a bad idea to store them in a dark box.

So how do you organize your hat collection? Any rack you can recommend? Or do you put 30 nails into the wall?

I saw this IKEA rack, still not enough for 30, but perhaps just stack them up?

https://www.ikea.com/de/de/p/mackapaer-garderobe-hutablage-weiss-70334750/

[yungkory]

I use something like this:

https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/over-the-door-cap-rack-set-of-2/1013378436

It might be that exact one, not sure I've had it for years. I have a mix of like 50 baseball hats and golf hats and it does pretty well for me (I have two of them hanging from the closet door)

[Kanoito]

Weird, couldn't open your link.

But with that description found something on Google

https://www.flex-cap.de/Case-30er-Cap-Rack-System-Weiss-Fullcap-23383/&mps=fro-9-id23383?gclid=CjwKCAjwwMn1BRAUEiwAZ_jnEoICmWa-QPK0Dcf2i1dwoCavHPnjjCSrYLlG_VSzRsgz5GWH3cfUyhoCvRIQAvD_BwE

[GolfSpy BOS]

I guess I’m not that good to them... but I don’t have many the I wear anyway.

My two golf hats go in my dresser as they fit in with with my tee shirts.

My other hats are all stacked in a bucket on a shelf in the closet. I don’t often wear one unless I’m golfing, doing yard work, or spending a lot of time outside in the sun (Disney, pool, etc).

Also I should point out that I don’t have a lot of very structured hats.


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[PMookie]

I have two baskets my wife bought from Target. I have the hats separated by golf, and general. I “stack” them one after the other in four rows, stacked two-on-two. The backs of then hats are folded in, and up against each other so that each hat supports the front of another hat, just how they’re shipped from the factories.

 

 

[cnosil]

I only wear hats when I play golf. Mine are just on a shelf in my closet.

[Kanoito]

I know it's pretty trivial, but I used to store them like you guys said... stacked in the closet or in a box and after a few weeks you could see mold patches.

That's why I'm thinking about a well-ventilated rack to avoid such issue. Cause I'm definitely not washing a hat after every round.

I remember I still have some IKEA spare parts from a walk-in closet I built years ago, few metal rods and hooks, maybe I'll DIY and fabricate something.

Thanks for the input!

[Middler]

52 minutes ago, cnosil said:

I only wear hats when I play golf. Mine are just on a shelf in my closet.

I have golf and sailing hats. A stack of golf hats (6) and two stacks of sailing hats (12 ish?) on a shelf in the closet. I’ve never had an issue with sweat or mold.

[tony@CIC]

34 minutes ago, Middler said:

I have golf and sailing hats. A stack of golf hats (6) and two stacks of sailing hats (12 ish?) on a shelf in the closet. I’ve never had an issue with sweat or mold.

Wait - aren't golf and sailing hats the same ? I've worn mine interchangeably. In fact the best golf hats I have is one my daughter got me from the Sydney-Hobart race and another one I got from Lahina..

FYI we have a mud room with a coat rack - my most frequently used hats go there - so I can grab them on the way out. . No need for a special rack. 

 

[Kenny B]

I have several hats.  Don't wear many of them so they sit on a shelf in the closet.  Yard work hats are in the garage so I can grab on on my way outside.  Golf hats that I routinely wear are in my closet car, and I grab which ever one I want when I cart up.  Those get washed when after a round, my wife grabs them and puts them in the washer.  She nicely puts the back where she found them.

[Kanoito]

56 minutes ago, Kenny B said:

I have several hats.  Don't wear many of them so they sit on a shelf in the closet.  Yard work hats are in the garage so I can grab on on my way outside.  Golf hats that I routinely wear are in my closet car, and I grab which ever one I want when I cart up.  Those get washed when after a round, my wife grabs them and puts them in the washer.  She nicely puts the back where she found them.

So your point is getting a better wife instead of a rack?

[Kenny B]

24 minutes ago, Kanoito said:

So your point is getting a better wife instead of a rack?

You can buy a lot of new hats for the cost of getting a new wife.  I have a unicorn.  

[SlowNLow]

Being bald guy, I got hats,  and like all golf equipment, the relationship is not infinite because they get funky from natural causes.  Like day old beer.

Golf hats, mostly Titleist and hats from northern MI resorts, Detroit Tigers and other MLB hats, WMU hats, U of M hats, Red Wings hats, even some Lions hats, and my new favorite PBR hat.  

NO SPARTY HATS.  

So the hats in the current batch are stacked on a closet shelf with SWMBO monitoring the quantities very closely.   

Hats which get rotated out end up in a large green sack in basement.   Hopefully that sack is still there, SWMBO was "cleaning" down there and sometimes stuff just disappears.  My stuff.

[PMookie]

Being bald guy, I got hats,  and like all golf equipment, the relationship is not infinite because they get funky from natural causes.  Like day old beer.
Golf hats, mostly Titleist and hats from northern MI resorts, Detroit Tigers and other MLB hats, WMU hats, U of M hats, Red Wings hats, even some Lions hats, and my new favorite PBR hat.  
NO SPARTY HATS.  
So the hats in the current batch are stacked on a closet shelf with SWMBO monitoring the quantities very closely.   
Hats which get rotated out end up in a large green sack in basement.   Hopefully that sack is still there, SWMBO was "cleaning" down there and sometimes stuff just disappears.  My stuff.

No Sparty hats?! What the heck? You don’t like CHAMPIONSHIP teams?! FYI, I didn’t go there.... Just rattling your chain!


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[SlowNLow]

1 minute ago, PMookie said:

No Sparty hats?! What the heck? You don’t like CHAMPIONSHIP teams?! FYI, I didn’t go there.... Just rattling your chain!


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Magic, Greg Kesler, Kirk Gibson are some great Sparties for sure.  My niece graduated from MSU Vet school. Another great Sparty. 

But still no Sparty hats. 

[Wedgie]

Just now, PMookie said:

No Sparty hats?! What the heck? You don’t like CHAMPIONSHIP teams?! FYI, I didn’t go there.... Just rattling your chain!


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I think the Pabst Blue Ribbon hat trumps all.

[PMookie]

Magic, Greg Kesler, Kirk Gibson are some great Sparties for sure.  My niece graduated from MSU Vet school. Another great Sparty. 
But still no Sparty hats. 

We had season tickets to MSU football when I was a kid. My Dad coached HS basketball in Michigan for 40 years, and he coached against Magic when Magic was at Everett. To this day, Gibson and Magic are two of my favorite athletes all-time.
Little known fact about Gibson: his Sr year, Iowa was at MSU, football. Gibby gets hit out of bounds after a catch, and he proceeds to beat the snot out of the guy. He’s ejected... I see Gibby at a Spring Training game in the early 90’s, I yell at him. “Gibby! Gibby!” He turns around. I yell, “I was there when you kicked the crap out of the Iowa team at MSU your Senior year!” His jaw drops, and he busts out laughing! Pumps his fist in the air. I yell, “Go green!” He pumps again!
Loved that dude. Him being a Tiger cemented his place in my heart!!!!


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