The search for a great hat clip

Once the Meta algorithm figures out that you like to wear hats — which is probably easy for it to do — you will be inundated with ads for hats and hat accessories. One of them is a clip that lets you hang your hat from your luggage. Which is, indeed, a useful thing because traveling with a nice hat requires commitment to fashion and tolerance of inconvenience. The struggle is real. The accessory you'll most likely see advertised is the Klipsta, which supposedly uses a "strong magnet" to hold your hat without damage. I made the mistake of buying one (from Amazon; I rarely buy from Instagram ads directly) and the magnet is not strong enough to securely hold anything but a very lightweight straw hat. After this disappointment, having been sold the dream of carefree hat-toting travel, I kept shopping. The next one I tried was the Travel Hat Clip from Kikkerland. It's much less expensive than the Klipsta, and it actually works! Instead of a weak magnet, it uses a small metal clamp that is…

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