I used to make $16.50 at this part-time internship I had at a small hedge-fund in Manhattan. I commuted three days a week from New Jersey with no prospect for permanent employment. Spent most of my time there working with the CEO, taking care of whatever he needed taken care of, sort of like a glorified gofer minus the glorified part. His name was Al Pacino, a not too tall Jewish-Italian guy in his early-sixties with a full head of hair. Not Al Pacino the actor if that’s what you’re thinking.“Hi Al,” I walked into his office one Monday.“I need you to take my suit to the tailor. It’s hanging on the door,” he pointed from behind his huge mahogany desk. “The place on 76th and second, remember?”“Yea.”“I need the waist tightened. Tell him it’s for Al, he knows.”“Sure.”I believe that the clinical term for Al Pacino’s personality type is narcissist.“Al, what’s the most you made in a single year?” I asked him while trying to get the suit down, the hanger was stuck. I asked because I wanted to see how I measured up to a mediocre hedge fund manager.He froze over his papers at the sound of my question, just sat there looking down, thinking, seemingly calculating something. “Twenty-eight,” he eventually said without looking up, then went back to doing whatever he was doing.Al Pacino meant 28 MILLION when he said twenty-eight. That’s five hundred thirty-eight thousand four hundred sixty-one dollars and fifty-four cents per week.“Christ!” I blurted out, almost fainting. “Must be nice.”“I remember this one time,” Al Pacino looked up at me, “I was about your age — this was back in business school — we went out to a popular night club down in Brooklyn. You wouldn’t know it, it’s not there anymore. It happened by chance that there was an Arabian sheik there that night, some prince, I don’t know what he was. A young guy as well. Your age,” Al Pacino pointed his gold pen at me. “You know what he was doing? He was standing there with a pair of scissors in the middle of the dance floor giving out hundred-dollar bills to anyone who let him snip off their tie. And guys would actually line up for a turn. Can you believe that? There was a line!” Al Pacino slammed his hand on the hard desk. “I was disgusted. I would never let anyone degrade me like that. Ever! The damn prince noticed me staring from a distance, nonplussed, I wasn’t getting in line, so he waved his scissors at me to come get a snip and—”“What did you do?” I interrupted, unable to contain my raging curiosity.“That’s what I’m trying to tell you. If you don’t interrupt me I’ll tell you what I did,” Al Pacino shook his head.“Sorry Al.”“I turned around and walked out,” he said. “That’s what I did. I stopped talking to all the guys I knew who let him cut their ties. I have no respect for people who don’t respect themselves. Crazy. How can you?”“You can’t,” I agreed. Even though I wasn’t sure if by HOW CAN YOU? he meant how can you respect people who don’t respect themselves or how can you not respect yourself enough to let someone cut off your tie for a hundred dollars. But it didn’t matter because I don’t think you can do either. “I guess one could say that you ‘cut ties’ with some your friends…”Al Pacino gave me a stone-faced look for a long four seconds. “The point of the story is,” he then said, “don’t try to rush things. No shortcuts. Don’t sell yourself to get to where you want to be. Take the long road with dignity and nobody will ever be able to say squat to you. And you’ll be able to sleep at night.”“Noted,” I said. “Thanks Al.”“I mean it,” he looked me right in the eye.“I know, of course. I actually have this one story too where this guy at the bus terminal one night offered me seventeen dollars if I give him a—”“Ok, good,” Al Pacino cut me off, no longer a part of the conversation. “Now, I need this suit taken care of.”I went to drop the thing off and stopped for lunch on my way back. Beef japchae. I spilled some sauce on my new pants – right on the crotch – and instantly remembered the lady at the store saying I shouldn’t dry them in the dryer cause they’ll shrink to hell, turn into baby pants. I panicked a bit at first, started getting angry at myself even. “You idiot,” I thought.Then quickly reigned that negative energy in to a halt because I’ve been trying to practice being kind to myself lately. “It’s ok,” I told myself, “you’re not an idiot. These things happen. You’ll figure it out.” And boom! Just like that. The idea pops into my head the second I calm myself down – order one of those things for drying stuff online. So I go on Amazon, one two click and problem solved. This thing does the job. Clothes go from wet to dry in a flash when hanging on it.We have always had a clothes drying rack but the last one was damaged during a move. There seems to be quick a disparity in price, but went with this one because of the price and the overall reviews seemed good.Assembly is quite simply and will take less than 5 minutes. It folds and expands rather quickly and easily. But, as others have noted, the bars can easily pop out (and do). I grabbed one of the top bars to move this into another room and the bar popped out. It easily goes back in but they don't securely fasten. I tried pushing because I thought I felt a sort of snap indicating a locking position but it didn't lock.Yes, I read the instructions where it specifically says "not" to carry from the bars but in fact from the side. The one we previously had could in fact be carried from the top bars. Seems to me they could have built this so you could rotate the bars to a locking position.But overall, it seems adequate for what we want it for and it is worth the price. Unfortunately, we didn't scroll down far enough to see the bamboo drying rack. No question we will purchase that next time. Obvious downside to the metal bars is if you get a slight crack or nick and your wet clothes are exposed to the metal, you get some nice rust stains on your clothing.This thing is amazing. We got it as a replacement for our old standard fold out drying rack and it’s been so nice. While we dreaded pulling out our old one (it was hard to put up, poles were coming apart from the base & just generally not user friendly), this one is a breeze. It’s easy to set up, it holds an entire load of laundry & we’ve actually found ourselves using it more often than we did the last one - air drying our clothes instead of using the dryer. My favorite things about this one is that it folds up really thin so easy to slide against a wall or in a closet and that it has a weighted open - not sure if that’s the right term but it doesn’t just fall open when you’re setting it up. We’ve had this one for a few months now and honestly I’m mad that I put off replacing our old one for so long. This one did take a bit of scrolling to find. I liked it because it was similar to a more expensive version but a lot bigger than some other ones in this price range. Highly recommend!I really liked the gullwing design of this drying rack, but it really is not good for small spaces. When I unfolded it, it was as big as my twin bed. I felt like there was so much wasted space in the design. I personally doesn't wash my shoes that often, so the shoe holders were basically useless. I ended up removing them and using it as another bar to dry my socks. The mesh was alright - good for sweaters, but I was worried that my heavy wool sweater would somehow stretch the mesh out. I liked the height of the rack, since I could even dry my pants and longer items by folding them in half over the bar.I gave it four stars, because it is a good rack, does it's job well, and has plenty of space to hang clothes. However, I took off one star because of the shoe drying section and how wide it is. If I were to buy another drying rack, I would probably just get a vertical drying rack, because it takes up less space.Easy to assemble, simple design that has lasted us years of frequent use, and my favorite part - no loose screws in the folding joints. That's the weakest point in other folding drying racks that always needed tightening and eventually come apart over time. Honey-can-do fixed that with their design and I just bought my second one to replace my old amazon basic rack. I like this company and a lot of their designs are nice and simple which makes them last longer. I haven't been paid to write this, but finally getting around to recommending them to others after years of using their products.Nice and sturdy but would not say it’s collapsible as you have to take it apart to put it away so my stays up all the timeIt is multipurpose, very nice looking, very easy to assemble, looks a bit flimsy but does the job, fits in bathtub as well.Es el segundo que compro, te sacan de apuros y le cabe mucha ropa. Aguanta mucha ropa y ropa pesada sin caerse o irse de lado. Las patas de abajo mantienen el equilibrio. El material es muy bueno y resistente.Solo tengo un comentario desfavorable... el primero que compre me salió muy bueno, este no se que tenga en los materiales pero esta muy difícil de abrir y cerrar. Se queda atorado y batallamos muchísimo. Creo que me tocó uno defectuoso, por que el otro funciona perfecto.Fuera de eso... Lo recomiendo muchísimo!ACTUALIZACIÓN DESPUÉS DE AÑOS DE USOTenemos 2 y los dos siguen intactos. El segundo que se batallaba para abrir ya abre bien. Sigue algo durito, menos que antes… pero nada que no podamos abrir. Los recomiendo ampliamente.Good value. Since it is going in the trailer/RV/caravan I just needed it to function and didn't care what it looked like. But it is perfectly fine. The box and the packaging was damaged but not the Drying Rack. Didn't come with assembly instructions either but I figured it out. Recommend the bash and dent amazon products.Sturdy little rack that does as advertised. Its solid and can take a good brunt of weight before it starts having issues but even then, it only sags a tiny bit.