How many hats is enough?

[suitedcboy]

Me, the dog, the spouse, and the hats are all still inside the house so I'm not there yet. I will cop to having lowered shelves and hanger rods so the space on shelf is a dimension that some multiple of hat box height will fit. You can't put a 9 inch hat box into that 4.25 inches left above those other two hat boxes. I don't find that it is important to see shoes on the floor in that hanger area.....

 

[1967Cougar390]

I bought a bunch of hats lately. 2 barmahs, a few Tilleys, 2 akubras. There's a few more I want to buy soon. A. I am running out of storage space. B. The more hats I buy the less any particular one is valuable to me. I mean if i went to the extreme and bought hundreds I would just have a pile of hats with none I'm particularly attached to.

How many hats do guys have? Any clever storage ideas? How many hats are too many?

I have 21 hats total. That’s counting the two I ordered yesterday. Out of the 21, The two Akubras I have and the two that I’m waiting to receive will get the bulk of wearing time. I will rotate my straw hats in more during the summertime. My wool felt hats will probably see less usage now that I agave upgraded in quality.

Storage for me is a four hanger rack by the door with hanging racks also in the closet.

Steven

 

[SteveFord]

When you look at a hat and don't really recall buying it.
When you look at your hats and realize that you've never actually worn it for more than a few minutes.

That's when you know you're getting close!

 

[RossRYoung]

My personal limit is 10. I’m not there yet but have sold a couple I bought ‘on a whim’ because they didn’t really have that look I now know I like. Can’t imagine someone would be able to answer this question for you though...

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Maybe when you have nightmares of hats attacking in formation, wave after wave and you only have a hat brush and sponge to defend yourself.
Not that i would know or anything.
B

 

[Frunobulax]

Maybe when you have nightmares of hats attacking in formation, wave after wave and you only have a hat brush and sponge to defend yourself.
Not that i would know or anything.
B

That's Tuesday.

 

[GHT]

A hat collector I am not, just a dozen that's all. You won't catch me accumulating impossible quantities of hats. Thousands of pre-50's 45 rpm records, maybe. Almost a hundred Aloha shirts, maybe. But at least I've got hats under control.

 

[TheOldFashioned]

Maybe when you have nightmares of hats attacking in formation, wave after wave and you only have a hat brush and sponge to defend yourself.
Not that i would know or anything.
B

...marching in cowboy boots and wearing leather jackets?

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Anything more than 10,000 is just showing off.

I’m trying to get down to 35-50 felt and 15 “straw” hats. An arbitrary number that is always changing. It’s just a lot more fun buying them than selling.

 

[hatsRme]

Where do keep that many hats? I've got room for a few more and that's it. I mean I live in a small condo in Israel, funny growing up in the suburbs and rural areas of the USA space was never an issue for me. Here 10 years and l can't wrap my head around the he notion that I can't buy whatever I want, simply because I don't have space

Right! My son played on the Ra’anana basketball team a few years ago, and required some adjusting to those same living space limitations. On the positive side, it made his next move (to NYC) easier. Now he complains about the cost of living.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

I bought a bunch of hats lately. 2 barmahs, a few Tilleys, 2 akubras. There's a few more I want to buy soon. A. I am running out of storage space. B. The more hats I buy the less any particular one is valuable to me. I mean if i went to the extreme and bought hundreds I would just have a pile of hats with none I'm particularly attached to.

How many hats do guys have? Any clever storage ideas? How many hats are too many?

Marginal utility is the economic term.
But wouldn't they all have to be the same hat?

 

[Short Balding Guy]

How many is enough?

"Sample size is an element of research design that significantly affects the validity and clinical relevance of the findings identified in research studies. Factors that influence sample size include the effect size, or difference expected between groups or time points, the homogeneity of the study participants, the risk of error that investigators consider acceptable and the rate of participant attrition expected during the study. Appropriate planning in regard to each of these elements optimises the likelihood of finding an important result that is both clinically and statistically meaningful."

In order to be statistically significant ,I suggest that hat racks of <75 not be considered. Hat racks with multiplies of 75 should be given larger confidence percentages for comments on The Fedora Lounge.

Apologies for my attempt at humor above. I find this question to be wanting. Of course the correct answer is always - 1 more than I have right now.

Amused this afternoon, Eric -

 

[hatophile]

I told my wife I'm trying to keep up with her shoe collection.

 

[belfastboy]

Anything more than 10,000 is just showing off.

I’m trying to get down to 35-50 felt and 15 “straw” hats. An arbitrary number that is always changing. It’s just a lot more fun buying them than selling.

My 'number' is somewhere around the 50 mark (fur and straw) which I currently exceeding by a just a few. The limitation is imposed by storage space. I have room to store 30 hats, in boxes, orderly. The others are just stacked in our guest bedroom which is good except for when guests arrive. Don't necessarily want to stop but where to stack them really is an issue. and divorcing my wife just to gain more closet space is not up for discussion...…..at the moment. ……..besides she might ask for 1/2 the hats!

 

[Hat and Rehat]

How many is enough?

"Sample size is an element of research design that significantly affects the validity and clinical relevance of the findings identified in research studies. Factors that influence sample size include the effect size, or difference expected between groups or time points, the homogeneity of the study participants, the risk of error that investigators consider acceptable and the rate of participant attrition expected during the study. Appropriate planning in regard to each of these elements optimises the likelihood of finding an important result that is both clinically and statistically meaningful."

In order to be statistically significant ,I suggest that hat racks of <75 not be considered. Hat racks with multiplies of 75 should be given larger confidence percentages for comments on The Fedora Lounge.

Apologies for my attempt at humor above. I find this question to be wanting. Of course the correct answer is always - 1 more than I have right now.

Amused this afternoon, Eric -

I was taking notes, Eric!

 

[Hat and Rehat]

I told my wife I'm trying to keep up with her shoe collection.

It's difficult to put a hat up your backside, Perry.
Shoes are different.

 

[Hats Matter]

I will contribute my count of 23 hats, all but one from Optimo (including 3 Monticristi Panamas and 2 Milans). The 1 non Optimo is a Resistol cowboy hat I purchased on a whim in Virginia City, Nevada.

For what it is worth I have 52 pair of shoes with 3 additional pairs on order.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

My 'number' is somewhere around the 50 mark (fur and straw) which I currently exceeding by a just a few. The limitation is imposed by storage space. I have room to store 30 hats, in boxes, orderly. The others are just stacked in our guest bedroom which is good except for when guests arrive. Don't necessarily want to stop but where to stack them really is an issue. and divorcing my wife just to gain more closet space is not up for discussion...…..at the moment. ……..besides she might ask for 1/2 the hats!

I decided not to count until the divorce lawyers force me to.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

I will contribute my count of 23 hats, all but one from Optimo (including 3 Monticristi Panamas and 2 Milans). The 1 non Optimo is a Resistol cowboys hat I purchased on a whim in Virginia City, Nevada.

For what it is worth I have 52 pair of shoes with 3 additional pairs on order.

How many feet?

 

[Il Cappello]

An old Ozzy song comes to mind... One is too many, ten is not enough.