I purchased this valet because it takes me a long time to get ready, in the morning, and I thought it was a good idea to set up the outfit the night before. I had a valet, that this one replaced, and it didn't have a shelf or mirror. Both these additions, not to mention the bottom rack for shoes, are invaluable to me. I can leave my wallet, watch, and keys on the valet and it even has a depression in the shelf to put your change without worry that it will be in the way of anything else or fall off the valet, should you need to move it. I keep it in a centralized location, near to my closet and if I need to move it I can and all the items on it are secure and have never fallen off. It has proven to be so useful that my wife and I compete over it and another one will need to be purchased. As for how to use this, I have some suggestions. If it is a suit that you are wearing (or any jacket over a shirt), you should hang the jacket, first, then hang the shirt. If you do it this way, you will be able to put on the shirt and tie, while utilizing the mirror, and preventing your jacket from wrinkling after you have laid it aside to get to the shirt. If you wear an undershirt, then hang it over the pants. You can spread it out or simply fold it down the middle and then lay it over the bar. If you are keen on repeating a suit (hopefully switching out the shirt), then the way you'd put it back on the valet is the reverse of how you would take the items off. I have no cons about this valet because I have made some additions to it. 1. I added two hooks on it for a belt and a tie and 2. I mounted a cord to it so that I could convert it into a charging station. The hooks I used were nothing more than the ones you can find at a grocery store that have permanent mounting tape on the back. I managed to get some that were similar, in color, to the valet and don't look out of place. As for the cord, I used brackets (along the back) that I obtained from a hardware store to hold the cord in place and have a place where it can be secured to the top. Once again, I matched the colors. I have been toying with the idea of using a jigsaw to cut a hole in the shelf, in order to permanently mount the cord flush with the top or sink the USB charger flush with the top of the shelf. Perhaps I'll do this with the second one I purchase and give my wife the one I currently use. As for putting this together, you need to be VERY careful that you are using the correct parts. They may all look the same, however some of them have screw holes in specific locations and you'll be unable to assemble it if you find that you have already used this piece, elsewhere, during its construction. Don't think that this is easy enough to disregard the instructions. At the very least, you should read them so that you can separate the pieces I am talking about to save you the time it takes to disassemble the valet to liberate the piece you need, only to reassemble it all over again.
