How many of you just toss those old metal and plastic shower curtain hooks and rings away? How many of you just toss them into a drawer and forget about them? Well, I’m here today to give you some creative ideas on how you can reuse and repurpose those shower curtain hooks & rings to help you get more organized around the house or to come up with some crafty home decor ideas. Let’s go!
1. Hook together several of the rings to form a chain. Use that chain to hang-up outdoor hanging plants, wind chimes, wind socks, crystal dangling sun-catchers, etc. When using them outdoor, I prefer to use the plastic rings, because they won’t rust like metal rings.
2. Looking to hang up outdoor solar lights and solar lanterns for a party? If you want them to hang lower, you can form a chain (like above) and hang them from a Shepherd’s Hook, clothesline or plant hook.
3. If you have bird feeders that you want to hang down lower from a tree or hanging hook, connect 4-5 hooks together to make a chain. I prefer using neutral colored hooks or green hooks to blend in with the tree branches. Hang your bird feeder from the end of the hook. By having them hang a little lower, they’ll be easier for you to refill with birdseed later on.
4. Attach several plastic shower curtain hooks to a clothing hanger to get your accessories organized. You can hang up your tank tops, tights, pantyhose, belts, scarves, bras, etc. Plus, by hanging your accessories on the hanger like this…you’ll save on closet and drawer space!
5. Do you find hubby’s belts, neckties and scarves lying on the floor in the closet? Hang them up using the method described above to get them organized and to save space! Plus, neckties that are hung-up and not thrown in a drawer will be wrinkle-free when he needs them!
6. Need curtain tie-backs? You can decorate your curtain rings with beautiful charms, silk flowers and other items. Slide them up over the curtain or drapery panel and you’ve got yourself some custom-made curtain tie-backs!
7. Little girls love jewelry, so give them a few plastic rings to wear as colorful bangle bracelets! If they’re a little older & want to get crafty, let them glue some silk flowers onto the top of each bangle for some additional fun!
8. Love the bangle bracelet idea? Get crafty and decorate those plastic or metal rings to turn them into beautiful napkin rings for your dinning room table.
9. Looking for a better way to store those small accent (throw) rugs? Tightly roll each rug up and then secure the rolled rug with a round shower curtain hook. This will keep the rug from unrolling and you can easily store them on a shelf, on the floor of a closet or underneath a bed.
10. Do you line-dry your clothes during the warmer months of the year? If so, attach several plastic rings do your clothesline. When you need to hang bras, tank tops, pantyhose, tights and other delicate items out to dry, hang them through the hook. By doing this, you’ll get no creases on the garment from using a clothespin and you won’t risk snagging up your delicate fabric.
11. Need to get things organized in the garage, basement, attic and/or workshop? My husband uses the old shower curtain hooks to organize his extension cords, jumper cables, holiday light strings and other items. By feeding the items through the hooks, they’re easier for him to hang up or to keep the sorted items together.
12. Got a hunter or outdoorsman in the family? My sister-in-law mates together all of my brother’s thick hunting (wool) socks with the plastic shower curtain rings. She can easily pack them away in a bin for next season and keep them mated together.
Bonus 13. If you have plastic shower curtain rings that you no longer need, let the kids use them in the swimming pool as diving rings! Some of them are just heavy enough to float to the bottom of the shallow end of the pool that they can dive for! Others will be too light and will float. You’ll have to test it out to see if your’s will work!
There are a ton of different ways you can repurpose and reuse those metal and plastic shower curtain hooks! Instead of tossing them away, get creative and come up with some of your own ideas too!
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Using these hooks and tings in so many different ways is marvelous. I love hanging plants from them outdoors where they won’t rust and saving space in the closet by hanging scarves, ties, etc. from them on a hanger.
This is so cool! I like using the hooks to hang plants! I would love to add some plant decor to my home this way, thanks for the ideas!
Thanks for the ideas! I have lots of these and i’m always looking for ways to organize.
All of these ideas are so clever. I have a bunch of old shower curtain rings that have been stuffed in a drawer for at least 10 yeas and I never would have thought of using them in these ways. Cant wait to try out the hanging plants idea and hummingbird feeders for my back deck and yard.
oh wow, I wish I had seen this post a while ago, as I got rid of a bunch of them. I love all these ideas, and will be looking for them at tag sales!!!
I’m going to go to the dollar store so I can do #4: Attach several plastic shower curtain hooks to a clothing hanger to get your accessories organized.
Love it! You’ve got some creative ways to use those extra rings, and I’m going to dig through my junk drawer to see if I’ve got a few kicking around.
One way I’m using them is to organize and display my spouse’s ball caps. I put a few rings on a plastic hanger, and threaded the caps onto the rings using that space on the back of the caps between the hat and the adjustable band. He can easily pick out which cap he wants, they’re easy to put on and take off the rings, they’re all in one place, and they’re out of the way (I put the hanger on an over-the-door hook in the laundry room).
If you all have ideas for those things…list them in the comments and I’ll add them to my master list of ideas that I’ll be posting in a few weeks.
Shelly, you are smart. Those things are dang handy aren’t they.
These are pretty good ideas. I never would’ve thought of either of them!
This is amazing! You should totally write a book with all of your wonderful creative ideas for shower curtain hooks and rings. I am so going to try some of these right away. I love the idea of using them to hang my scarves in the closet that is brilliant. I am also going to try these on the bird feeders. I too love to find great deals at the Dollar Tree. Hope you have a wonderful Father’s Day.
I will have to pick some shower hooks up at the dollar store since I have a shower door and not curtain. I’ve seen some pretty nice decorative ones too, besides the simple cheap ones. I would use the tip to hang clothes with them since I’m always hand washing things and draping them all over the place!
Wow Shelley I never thought of using Shower Curtain Hooks and Rings in these helpful ways. I really like the Idea of hanging up several tank tops on one hanger along with your scarves. My tank tops always seem to fall of my hangers This would work great for me. Also for my pretty scarves. My husbands Belts~ Awesome thankyou so much for Sharing these ideas! 🙂
You’re welcome Cathy. I actually have another 20+ ideas on how to use those hooks & rings that I’m going to post in a few weeks. I love buying them at the dollar store and using them all sorts of different ways. I primarily use the plastic ones and I gained back a lot of closet space!