Hat Storage

[Frunobulax]

I just commissioned a wider, taller, and deeper hat safe.

This one fits six hats per shelf, 11 shelves, three hats in front and three in back, for a total capacity of 66 hats.
The new one will fit 8 hats per shelf, 14 shelves, 4 hats in front and 4 in back, good for 112.

I keep them inside plastic bags with the name of the hat clearly written on an adhesive label, and in alphabetical order.

Amazingly, the cost of having a similar-sized wooden closet made is only about 20% cheaper, so I opted for metal, which will keep them safer.

As you can see from the overcrowding in my home office and in my bedroom, I needed a new safe. Ana the neat-freak kept complaining.

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What's your count now, Max?

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[TheOldFashioned]

Wet, grey overcast day made it ideal to work on an indoor project:


Lighting is poor even with flash due to the weather and standing in the coat closet to get the shot. Happy with the result, like the flexibility, and can add another row when necessary. Only downside is that the wife will finally see all my hats in one location for the first time when she gets home tonight.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Wet, grey overcast day made it ideal to work on an indoor project:

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Lighting is poor even with flash due to the weather and standing in the coat closet to get the shot. Happy with the result, like the flexibility, and can add another row when necessary. Only downside is that the wife will finally see all my hats in one location for the first time when she gets home tonight.

Hey OF: you have to show her pictures of other people’s collections and especially “hat messes” and tell her how lucky she is to have.....blah blah blah.
Just sayin....
B

 

[TheOldFashioned]

Hey OF: you have to show her pictures of other people’s collections and especially “hat messes” and tell her how lucky she is to have.....blah blah blah.
Just sayin....
B

Haha, good idea...I think. After seeing the new setup the question did come up, "So how many hats are you planning to get?" My 2.5yr old boy kind of threw me under the bus over the weekend when he told her that dad was opening boxes of hats. (I had two hats arrive last Friday.) I avoided eye contact and quickly attempted to steer the conversation to my kid's hats.

For the most part she approved of the end result. Not pictured below is a chest freezer and she said she would have preferred the shelves to have been centered above that. Fair point cosmetically, and ideally I would agree, but after I explained that I had to mount to studs in the wall she was much more understanding. She's happy I don't have hats lying around in three or four places throughout the house now. I will call this a win-win.

In a related note, she also asked what I was planning to do with that leather jacket that's been laying on the guest bed.

 

[hatsRme]

I just commissioned a wider, taller, and deeper hat safe.

This one fits six hats per shelf, 11 shelves, three hats in front and three in back, for a total capacity of 66 hats.
The new one will fit 8 hats per shelf, 14 shelves, 4 hats in front and 4 in back, good for 112.

I keep them inside plastic bags with the name of the hat clearly written on an adhesive label, and in alphabetical order.

Amazingly, the cost of having a similar-sized wooden closet made is only about 20% cheaper, so I opted for metal, which will keep them safer.

As you can see from the overcrowding in my home office and in my bedroom, I needed a new safe. Ana the neat-freak kept complaining.

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Looking good!!
I see a new room in your future, Max!

We rent a small office within ours to a itinerant M.D., who sees patients in nursing homes and hospitals. He says it’s for administrative work, sure. But he also uses it to take delivery and store new additions to his vintage guitar and amplifier collection.

He just built on a new room at his house, too. Oh, well...

 

[hatsRme]

It seems like your hats are suffering from some serious leather jacket pollution.
And I want a close-up of the diplomas on the wall. [emoji2]

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I think the top one is an Honorable Discharge from the Marine Corps!

 

[drmaxtejeda]

I think the top one is an Honorable Discharge from the Marine Corps!

Oh? Thanks, Charlie! Were you a Marine as well?

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[Frunobulax]

Oh? Thanks, Charlie! Were you a Marine as well?

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In the case of Marines, there is no "were."

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[drmaxtejeda]

In the case of Marines, there is no "were."

Sent directly from my mind to yours.

Ah. I thought so. Same with dentists. [emoji2]

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[AbbaDatDeHat]

It seems like your hats are suffering from some serious leather jacket pollution.
And I want a close-up of the diplomas on the wall. [emoji2]

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Bottom one is a BS in rocks from WVU.
We all know what BS is!! Ha
Only cost about 86K, a head of hair and probably a wife.
Hats...much cheaper!
B

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Bottom one is a BS in rocks from WVU.
We all know what BS is!! Ha
Only cost about 86K, a head of hair and probably a wife.
Hats...much cheaper!
B

86 thousand dollars? Really?

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[hatsRme]

Oh? Thanks, Charlie! Were you a Marine as well?

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I wish.

 

[drmaxtejeda]

My new hat safe came in today. It has a 112 hat capacity. The smaller one can fit 66.

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[AbbaDatDeHat]

Sin palabras!!

 

[Tukwila]

My new hat safe came in today. It has a 112 hat capacity. The smaller one can fit 66.

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YOWZA! Impresionante!

 

[drmaxtejeda]

Sin palabras!!

It was a big deal to install it in the room, B! After they finished with this one, they told me the next one I order they can assemble inside the room. Why didn't they tell me that before? [emoji34]

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[drmaxtejeda]

YOWZA! Impresionante!

Sí, verdad?

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[steur]

My new hat safe came in today. It has a 112 hat capacity. The smaller one can fit 66.

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The way your collection is growing it's going to be too small again soon! Very nice solution to have them sitting on shelves though. I have a book case that would be perfect for that, but the books refused to go!

 

[RJR]

My new hat safe came in today. It has a 112 hat capacity. The smaller one can fit 66.

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Wow!

 

[TheOldFashioned]

Clearly the next logical progression is to get a property survey to determine where the next wing of the house will be built. The Doc Max Hat Annex and Museum. Either that or an underground bunker.