Clean up the basement--Confessions of a cord horder.

Step 7 Ummmm, gotta fix that.

Notice about mid way through that the rod is bending ever so slightly.

Due to watching the Discovery channel for virtually 18 hours at a sit, your keen intellect provides you with enough forward thinking to realise the bar ain't gonna hold all the crap you intend to hang.

Screw a large, weird shaped hook into the wall, bend it under the closet rod, and continue to think those schmucks who build bridges ain't all that.

Engineers? Whatever.