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I have a hundred chokers for my fashion, and I cycle them every single day.

Currently, They are all stored in their original plastic sleeves.

This means my routine is as follows.

  • Pick up pile of sleeves
  • Select a choker by shuffling through the sleeves like they are cards.
  • unpack choker
  • place choker on for the day
  • remove choker
  • put choker back in sleeve
  • place sleeve back in pile

I find the task of sleeve management to be frustrating. And would rather have them all organized in such a way so that I may be able to view them, and choose them out as warranted.

What do you say is the best way to store them? (Product, Idea to make, anything)

Edit 1: A limitations I have is that I cannot install anything permanently to the apartment. πŸ˜–

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

on me, king πŸ‘‘ πŸ₯Ί

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

What about taking numbered pictures of them and categorizing them like in a library?

So you can browse the photos and find them based on what sleeve number you've assigned it to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I'm sick right now and I read this as I have 100 chickens how do I store them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Get some cheap carabiners and use one for each style/color/whatever.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Step One: acquire one-hundred human necks using hatchet and/or hacksaw

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

Your username does match.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago

Maybe something like this?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Drawers with dividers. Like people use for jewelry. People also use them for things like watches, pens, knives, etc, anything collectible and around the same size. So there are differently-shaped options. They come in every material you might want - plastic, coated cardboard, wood, steel. The main advantage of using a box or sealing drawers is that they won't get dusty over time.

Here's one made of acrylic that could hold most of them, assuming they are very flexible: https://www.amazon.com/Watpot-Acrylic-Jewelry-Drawers-Organizer/dp/B09WMCPJT3/

If they aren't very flexible then look for something like a bangle organizer: https://www.amazon.com/Glenor-Co-Bracelet-Jewelry-Removable/dp/B07Q32R79N

[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Are the chokers somewhat adjustable to fit different size necks? Do you have any dislike or fear of giraffes? If yes and no, you might look into getting some giraffe dolls that are firm enough to basically wear and display the chokers and ease your selection.

You could even slightly decorate the giraffes to help in sorting them, supposing the wearing of chokers wasn't enough for your tastes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

Do you have any dislike or fear of giraffes? If yes and no, you might look into getting some giraffe...

Okay, I'm interested...

...dolls

Oh.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

I can see a dragon also fitting the requirement for people that suffer from giraffophobia.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 hours ago

Oo, This is smart! They'd also fit into my plushie collection!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

Paper chains around the room!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago

Sadly I max out emotionally at two girlfriends, three if I have the extra energy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

If they can be attached to each other end to end you can spool them around a stick loosely and remove from one end and add to the other, like a 100 element FIFO buffer.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe you need something like a motorized tie rack.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

I like that idea!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

You could hammer 100 little tack/nails into a board and hang them vertically. They'd be a lot longer vertically then they are wide, so you could do like 25 across x 4 down. You could maybe even still keep the plastic sleeves on them.

Or find a big donut shaped pillow, with the same diameter as a neck, and put all them on it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

The handy-person answer.

Assuming that my chokers are maybe 30 cm long with the chain, 2 cm spacing per choker, 25 chokers per row, 2 cm gap between choker vertical space.

Dimensions would be 126 cm tall and 50 cm wide.

Manageable, would need to find a place for it.


Plushies are being considered!

[–] Ookami38 3 points 10 hours ago

I'd suggest the back of a closet door or similar!

[–] Ookami38 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is essentially my idea as well. Hang em by the clasps. Even without permanently affixing something, a few quick-assembled rods with hooks, held in place with a suitable amount of command strips or similar no-damage hanger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Pro tip: don’t hang stuff by the clasp. The weight can stretch them out if they are made of junk metal (most are).

Instead, hang them by the ring/chain the clasp clasps onto. You can use upside down earring hooks to string them up if you have a pack of spare, otherwise small head finish nails can usually accommodate the chains.

[–] Ookami38 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh nice! I don't wear any necklaces or similar jewelry, but I'll keep that in mind.

[–] xmunk 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A rod of some kind - like a shower rod - that you can hang them all over and easily peruse them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ooo, I wonder if something like a ring holder exists to use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Go to the hardware store and get some pex tubing, and a shark bite union fitting.

Cut the tubing to the size you want, use the fitting to close the loop. The fitting can be removed by pressing on the ring around where the tubing goes in. They're may be a tool that will make this easier.

So you can put all your chokers on the ring, then rotate the one you want to the opening

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

You can get hangers for the closet that hang down. Either with pockets or bars or maybe even hooks. Just have to hang the thing in the closet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Get 101 dalmatians? You mean dog collars right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Sadly Cruella de Vil is my landlord and has, some obsession with spots.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A big PVC pipe? So they are all in one location

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I would have to find one that fits my neck, and also then figure out how to prevent them from sliding.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

pipes come in many sizes! cardboard tubes as well

You could use rough sand paper on the pipe to make it grippy, or add antislip tape to it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Couple of screws on either side for the sliding problem. Bedazzling to make it fun.

[–] Ookami38 2 points 10 hours ago

I'd rig up some kind of hanging solution. Hang them from the clasps in a row on like, the back of a closet door or something.