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how do you store brooms and tools?

For decades I've relied on easy and inexpensive roller-like broom storage clips to hold brooms, mops, and long handled garden tools on the wall (or door)

I guess mine have always had about the same sized poles, but lately I'm finding that the long pole/handle of the brooms and tools are getting thinner, and so they keep sliding out of these holders.

What do you use to hold your brooms, rakes, shovels, and mops? I love the Command clips, but they're almost $10 each.....Since I'm not afraid to screw my storage ideas into place, I don't really need the "easy to remove" adhesive part of the Command technology.

Comments (15)

  • last year
    last modified: last year

    Can you look for some kind of sleeve to put on your handles (like a piece of old hose or some random something from the hardware store) to enable you to continue to use your preferred holders? eta: I saw someone suggest tennis racket overgrip wraps or tape.

  • last year

    Olychick is suggesting what I immediately thought of.

  • last year

    I hadn't thought of it, but it's a really good idea.

  • last year

    I'm going to try that @ work - we have those clip thingies to hold brooms, etc. and I thought they were slipping out because they were too heavy.

    You could also drill a hole in the handle and thread a cord through to make a hanging loop.

  • last year


    Link My Hubby made a home-made version of THIS using two 1/2" pieces of conduit & a piece of 2x4 screwed to the wall.

  • last year

    There's a horizontal strip of wood above my eye level ( I'm 5'2") on two walls of the attached garage. There are large nails driven into the wood to hang shovels, brooms, rakes, & garden tools on.

  • last year

    We have hooks installed in the broom closet for brooms and mops, and then I put a loop of wire through the hole at the end of each broom/mop so that I can hang more than one broom from each hook. I like vinmarks' method, but my broom closet is more crowded than that, as it also has vacuum cleaners, electric steam mops, and pizza peels/spinners/etc in it.

    Tools go in the garage, and we have large storage unites for them, including pegboard.

  • last year

    try flipping them upside down. broom on top instead.

  • 11 months ago

    All garden tools etc . Go into a small metallic shed i bought from the hardware store- that has a place in the garden. Mops and brooms etc. for downstairs floor go into laundry room ( a corner spot), upstairs brooms etc. i bought a metal locker as a utility cabinet and place them in there in a corner of an extra room up there.

  • 11 months ago

    Suggest a Rubbermaid "Fast-track" plastic holder, either rectangular or triangular for corner placement. Kind of pricey ($40 for smaller triangular, $65 for larger rectangular version.

    Also available from other vendors such as Stalwart, Vevor, Trademark, etc. for about half the price

  • 11 months ago
    last modified: 11 months ago

    I think I got it at Walmart. But that would have been at least a decade ago.


    Someone pinned it, and this says Lowe's.


  • 9 months ago

    I don’t have much storage room so i bought a metal locker cabinet, removed the shelf and put all the brooms etc in there. At the side i added adhesive hooks and put hoops ( string in the holes of duster handles etc. ) and hung these at the side. I redecorated the door of the cabinet with adhesive type wallpaper and labeled it the utility cabinet. You can also hang stuff over the door.

  • 9 months ago

    +I have a thing that looks like this, but longer with more hooks. They can slide to give some items more room and I also hang small brooms, etc from the hooks. I have all sizes of handles on it-long, short, fat and skinny.


  • 9 months ago

    Re what Oly suggested, maybe a section of foam pipe insulation.