I miss P2s humour.....

Got mine at Target. And paid the $12 for the set. I am at a point in my life where I've decided to eliminate small vexations and willing to pay the extra $$ for it. These are so easy to use I actually wash/clean my shower curtain more often now that it's so easy to hang it back on.

I have to agree that perhaps the Target version of these is not so great. I had a roommate who had the good ones, and when I moved to my own place, I found these at Target. They continually popped open and flipped upside down, making the curtain difficult to open. (This did not happen with the ones my old roommate had - hers must have been the real thing!) I replaced the bad ones with simple chrome hooks which work great!

I bought a set from Target and a set from Bloomingdales and the ones from Bloomies are better.

I had been a devout buyer of the chrome hooks pictured above until I picked up a set of clear plastic ones as a purchase of convenience when I was stocking up for the new place and was too exhausted to stop elsewhere...The plastic ones are sooo quiet! I've always lived in places with metal rods, perhaps I'm an aggressive opener and closer and a little cranky in the morning but I don't miss the screeching sound. The plastic ones aren't attractive but aren't unattractive either.

Does anyone else have any problem with rusting? Mine (not these ones, but similar ones) rust up. Not terribly, but just in splotches...

I bought these a while back as a "splurge" and got the $12 ones from Bed Bath Beyond. Within a year they lost their shine, and upon closer inspection the metal had deteriorated. It looked like it all had a splotchy white film all over, but it wasn't anything i could clean off -- the metal had gone bad. Even worse, it had the effect of rust, where the pieces became rusted together, no longer rolled (just scraped across the rode) and it made opening and closing them to remove the shower curtain difficult. Despite loving the look, i've resolved never to buy these again because they had such a short usable life -- i'm surprised no one else here has had a back experience...

Bought mine long ago -- was simply going by "Frank" up therr a bit -- victim of PToo's witty humour -- but they are still goign strong ($12 from BB&B) -- since time have turned my mother on to them, and she was jsut blown away by how easy they are to use.

Miss PToo's humor, too. Maybe he couldn't comment for a while -- I haven't been able to post for many months -- until very recently. Glad AT servers are bug-free again.

bought some this weekend from Crate & Barrel outlet...love 'em!

I got mine at Target, on clearance!!!, so I got a few packs. To solve the snag problem, I bought a plastic rod cover. Problem solved. Love these!

$5 at century 21...works great!!

Some shower curtains come with their own adorable little motif in a set of little sculpted hooks. No matter how cute or pretty they are, they're just never as functional as these, so it tends to render them some flavor of cheesily ugly.

All the windows in my new apartment have cubicle tracks. These also work wonderfully (for tabbed curtains) in the tracks.

I'm a college student and every expense I can avoid I do. I needed some ball chain for something else and I used the rest of the ball chain to hang my curtais. It lets me hang them at the length that I want them and it is very cheap with the same look.