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Drywall anchors can be extremely helpful. They are great for hanging pictures and objects from the wall, where you don't have a wall stud directly behind. The preferred way is to hang the object to a wall stud because the stud is capable of supporting a great deal of weight.
Not all drywall anchors are created equally. The small cone-shaped anchors don't give me much confidence in hanging an object. I have found that the strongest anchors penetrate the drywall and have a mechanism for holding the anchor to the wall. The weak anchors will pull out of the wall, but a well-designed anchor will not. That's not to say that a strong anchor won't pull out of the wall...it just may pull a chunk of drywall out with it.
There are two anchors that I like. There is a plastic anchor that has very large, deep threads. These threads bite into the drywall and bottom out against it. The other type of anchor is metal and has a toggle feature on the end of it. Both types of anchors screw into the wall, but the toggle anchor has a mechanism that pops out inside of the wall (on the other side of the drywall). Once you start to screw the anchor in, the toggle is drawn into the back side of the drywall and clamps against it. Then you can just attach whatever object you are hanging to it.
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