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Anyone have plaster walls?

Get some of those picture hanging brackets that come with the small nails. They seem to work ok in my plaster. If you need to hang something that is more substantial, just find a stud and use a screw.
 
I have plaster walls. The two best options are:
1. Only put the picture where there is a stud. Use the stud.
2. Go to home depot and buy the expanding molly bolts (depending on the weight of what you're weighing there are different sizes.) You have to be careful with the molly's, tho, because you don't want to crush the plaster, u simply want the bolt to expand. Some of the bolts are called mollys some are called differnt things for each style, but if there is no stud, thats what you can do.
 
why dont you want to make a hole in the wall with a nail?

you do know you can fill the holes you make with plaster and the repaint and the wall will be like new again right.
 
If you can't use a stud (for example you need two+ nails/screw and only one will hit a stud), here is what works quite well:

1) Drill a <1/4" hole. Just use the next size down below 1/4".

2) Get ~1-2" of 1/4" round wooden dowel.

3) Hammer dowel tightly into hole. Trim off excess.

4) Screw a screw or hammer the nail into the dowel. The wood will attempt to expand, smashing itself even tighter into the already snug plaster.

This works quite well in bricks/masonry too. It does make a fairly sizable hole, but a 1/4" hole is easy to fill when you remove whatever you just hung.
 
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