I tried the $20 Walmart picture frame hanging kit and instantly regretted it

I was hanging a 24x36 poster in my living room last weekend and figured I'd grab one of those cheap hanging kits with the wire and nails. Big mistake. The nails bent like butter on my drywall and the wire snapped the second I put any weight on it. I ended up running to the hardware store for a real set of picture hooks and some braided wire for $8 total. The difference was night and day. The hooks went in smooth, held tight, and the poster hasn't budged. So my hot take is: those all-in-one kits are a trap for people who don't want to think, and you're better off spending 5 minutes picking out individual parts. Has anyone else had a hanging project go sideways because of a cheap kit?

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elliotc101d ago

Honestly, is hanging a poster really that deep? Like yeah the $20 kit sounds overpriced and probably trash, but I've used the basic $5 ones from Walmart with the plastic hooks and they worked fine for a 24x36. Maybe it was just the specific kit you grabbed.

tessa_roberts118h ago

Bought the $5 Walmart kit once and somehow ended up with a poster that was more crooked than my life choices. Maybe I'm just cursed with bad poster karma.