bag storage strategies

[Three Valves]

Who has an anteroom for their master bath??

Quite an oversight not having a gig bag locker next to the laundry.

I’d sue your architect.

[bloke]

I really would like to buy some of those metal double hook things @cjk ,
if that picture is connected to a point of sale… or if you can help me with the nomenclature…(??)

[kingrob76]

https://www.wayfair.com/home-improvemen ... i1750.html

[bloke]

At the bottom of that same wall (where the hanging picture can be seen), is a pass-though (doors on both sides - with two sliding baskets) from the master bath suite to the laundry room...
...It's pretty convenient.

bloke "but those baskets aren't really big enough for tuba bags, so...and I probably would just as soon not mix dirty laundry with tuba bags, anyway"

Who has an anteroom for their master bath??

Quite an oversight not having a gig bag locker next to the laundry.

I’d sue your architect.

[cjk]

@bloke yeah, what Rob said.

https://www.wayfair.com/home-improvemen ... i1750.html

[Rick Denney]

I screwed a row of those bicycle hanging hooks into the basement ceiling, and I hang luggage bags there. But my gig bags get stored under the piano, with tubas in them.

My Yamaha F tuba lives in its hard case, and it's under the piano with the other tubas. The hard case that came with my Eastman is in the attic, with a Martin plastic tuba in it (same size and shape--fits just about perfectly).

Rick "no spare gig bags here" Denney

[bloke]

Thank-you @kingrob76 and @cjk

On my phone, I can completely scroll PAST someone's reply.

I should ONLY get on the web with my laptop.

We all have our own self-micromanaged life strategies.

again: If the instrument is OUT, I'm MORE likely to practice...but I DON'T like ALREADY running late for some gig, and seeing my bag covered - inside-and-out with cat hair, and (again: additionally) I'm tired of the bags being underfoot.

I believe these hooks (and my wooden rod + 60-year-old short step-stool) is something very workable for me.

[Stryk]

umm...I keep the horns in them. I really do wish I had a workable storage option so all of my horns could be out, but I can't come up with one.

[Mary Ann]

I have a bedroom that cats are not allowed in. Stuff I don't want cat hair on lives in there. End of story.

Now, my lap is a different story. Cannot keep cats off of it. It is always hairy.

[bloke]

I’m waiting for those hooks to arrive before mounting this assembly up high.
From outside to inside, they will be mounted in the order that they will likely be needed, so as to define that it will usually be easy to grab the one or two that is/are needed.
Some know that we moved our bedroom out of a too-large room into a sensibly-sized alternate room, and made that room into a of combination of sitting room (as a nice fireplace and TV are in there), computer-desks room, and tubas room. Mrs. bloke insisted that I mount all of my personal instruments (not the guitars/basses) on to a wall. Admittedly, I practice more often - now: with all of them so easily accessible…not even having to remove them from cases or bags, and over there staring me in the face, suggesting “Hey boy, why don’t you pick me up and play me sometime?“

[York-aholic]

@bloke

How did those hangers work out? I’m thinking about ordering a half of a half dozen.

[the elephant]

Now, it seems to me that a guy who sells his horns as soon as they become dusty would not ever have the time to pack and unpack them or take the time to hang up his gig bags. If you have the time to unpack a tuba and then hang up the bag then it must sit for some time unused.

Collecting dust, even…?

Nope. That don't make no sense no how.

[bloke]

Holding the hanger with my hand - and supporting a bag - works perfectly, but I haven’t mounted the rod way up there yet, because I didn’t manage to get it done before my surgery, and now I’m trying to get caught up on fixing horns, so little projects like that are just sitting not getting done.

Again though, to answer your question, the hangers support bags perfectly.

[bloke]

The DRAWBACK is that each friggin' double hook costs $13.26 ...!?!?!?...plus shipping and all that jazz...

[YorkNumber3.0]

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[bloke]

I finally figured out how to hang the wooden rod - without ruining the house for the next owners...

...so it was worth the procrastination.

Read on, if ye seek bordom:

- Drill a 1" hole that is 1" deep horizontally into a horizontal log (aka "ceiling joist")
- Cut a U-shape into a four-inch-long piece of 1x4 pine (stained "pecan" - to match the 1x4 ceiling molding in the same location).
- Attach the U-shaped-cut piece of wood to the 1x4 ceiling molding.
- Lay the cut-to-the-correct-length wooden rod in place.
- Hang the bags on the special hangers (yin-yang, so as the bell ends don't all crowd each other).

solves:
- bags no longer underfoot in walk-in closet, or (alternately)
- bags no longer laying here-and-there in master bath, or (alternately)
- bags no longer laying around in (former master bedroom) tuba room - subjecting themselves to cat hair

An ancient (probably 1950's - and extremely short - just tall enough) step stool - stored in the master bath - allows for easy reach (as the ceiling - thus: the wooden rod as well - are considerably higher than standard, which also defines that the bags will be completely out of the way - above our heads).

I'll post a (SUPER-BORING) picture, once in place.

bloke "Tuba bags are big...BIG-big !!!."

@the elephant https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

[the elephant]

You have walk-in closets? I have never even seen one, much less owned one. I have a walk-in bathroom with a shower curtain rod used as an expanded "Kleidung Lebensraum"…

[bloke]

You have walk-in closets? I have never even seen one, much less owned one. I have a walk-in bathroom with a shower curtain rod used as an expanded "Kleidung Lebensraum"…

...also, a handy way to wash your tails while taking a a shower...maybe (??) even make ramen noodles at the same time.

walk-in closets:
They're not particularly elegant - nor useful - when the walking-in space is approximately the size of four tuba bags, and four tuba bags are all on the floor.

[the elephant]

I have no kids, so one of our three bedrooms (small, about 12' square) is the tuba room. It is filled to the gills with tubas, bags, and hard cases. Only the cats truly know what goes on in this room. The other small bedroom (same size) is for a cat box and my office. It is apropos of nothing that these two functions are served by the same small space, but it sort of explains some things about me, I guess…

[bloke]

The tuba bags (again: the avoidance of cat hair being THE thing) end up in the master bath (on the floor - in the way) or in my master-bath-located closet (on the floor - in the way) thus the storage improv on which this thread is based.

Prior to keeping the bags in the master bath general area, I ALWAYS left about 7 - 12 minutes LATER than I intended (on the way to gigs), because I would ALWAYS forget that I needed to remove the cat hair from the bag(s).

There are still PLENTY of things that aren't right/good/wise about me, my stuff, and the way I do things.
I'm just trying to check off one of the easy ones.