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i'm of the long-haired mass-shedding variety of human. i bought a bunch of those plastic ones from BedBathBeyond (not the one you linked to, but other not so bad looking ones) and i really dig 'em. i've gone thru just about every option there is, and those plastic ones seem to work best (for me). the metal ones always rusted and scratched up the tub!

okay guys - I am a long haired woman and while I empathise with all you sufferers of my falling hair, my husband included - I have to share this semi-funny story. About ten years ago while I was vacuuming my apartment I realised that there was not much suction in my vacuum. So normally you'd think the bag needed to be changed. Which I did change. But no improvement. I cleaned the head of the vacuum, not much improvement. Then I decided to pull the wand apart. Inside the wand there was this unbelivable accumulation of long hair that looked like a HUGE braid starting at the bottom of the wand, all the way inside the vacuum cleaner. Shortly after that I shortened my hair. So we do understand you dear boyfriends, spouses that have to live with our hair in the shower, but we get frustrated too :-) with ourselves...

We need one of these so badly. My husband is tired of cleaning "small woodland creatures" (read: my hair) from the drain with bamboo skewers. Sometimes he even has to use the multi-tool.

(My hair gets wrapped his toes sometimes, too. But, that's a different post.)

I'm ready to cut off my tresses just to avoid the glob that seems to need to be removed from the shower drain at least once a month. I haven't owned an effective hair trap.

Bless you Grace for posting this. Haha, Emily wrote me a short while after this post went up, asking if I had put you up to this :D

I am so sick of carrying handfuls of hair to the trash after every shower. And my hair is only shoulder length!

Am I the only one who - in the middle of shampooing... and again during and after creame rinse - has to stop and pull hair off my hands to be able to continue? (7 minute shower? Please! It takes 7 minutes just to manage the stray hair!!!)
I end up with a swirl of hair on the shower wall - and another spool of it over the hair trap. (and I know the amount of shedding is normal - it just wasn't as noticable when it was shorter)

The BF hasn't complained though.... because he knows full well it's HE not ME that wants the longer hair on my head. I'd gladly cut it tomorrow and feel pretty with no effort as opposed the hairy, blowing drying torture I put up with for now!

@clickchick & Anusha - so with you there on both accounts - isn't the vacuum thing a pain? Plus, how can I possibly lose so much hair every day of my life and never seem to have less of it on my head? (Also, mine is thick, and coarse, and RED, so you can see every stray strand of it from across the room.)

Just had to buy one of these for the new digs and agree - only the plastic ones really cut it.

ew! i have short hair but my roommate does not. not only does her hair clog up the shower and the sink, but also wraps around the rollers in the vacuum cleaner. she actually had the nerve to balk when i asked her to clean them out. anyhow...

in our bathroom we have a shower stall only, with a flat metal drain plate with too large holes. i need something to cover it and catch hair but the plastic device like the one linked here will not work. because the drain is actually a flat plate. i found a rubber dome-like contraption but it does not adhere to the surface well. any other suggestions?

i have a fine mesh screen similar to above (that one didn't work for me -- it still let much hair down the drain) that i purchased from bbb after i clogged the shower & the plumber had to be called in and he pulled out a similar long and very gross braid of hair. although 100 hairs a day is normal and looks like more when you're hair is long and/or you don't do the 100 brush strokes a day thing, more than that is not & should be checked by a doctor to make sure that it's not a thyroid issue. i just read somewhere that you don't notice hair loss until you've loss 50% of it! glad to see that i'm not the only person constantly swiffering up my own hair. no wonder i won't get a dog. that would be all i'd need. more hair.

It's amazing that I even have any hair left considering the amount I shed! It's everywhere! The carpet, the car, and of course, the shower. And with two dogs in the house, my vacuum works overtime. After dealing with clogged drains due to masses of hair, I started using the metal drains and they seem to work just fine. The ones I found at the supermarket have solid edges and sit mostly inside the drain. They tend to last about 6 months before getting rusty. Using these is much easier and better for the environment than fixing the problem after the fact with Drain-O.

I have a daughter with extra long wavy hair... 2 long haired dogs and a long hair cat. My poor vacuum is SO overworked. I change the bag every 2nd vacuuming and use tiny very sharp embroidery scissors to slice the wrapped hair off the beater thing.
For the shower/tub drains I use a little tool I got at a fabric store - a loop turner is a long slender 10-12" wire with a loop at one end for holding on and a little latch hook on the business end. It is metal for easy cleaning after fishing out those horrific clumps of mildewed, product encrusted hair wad.

This sounds all too familiar-clickchick I do the same thing in the shower.

what does everyone do for their sink drain? is there a way to take the stopper out to clean the hair that I know is wrapping around it resulting in a very slooow drain?

Another shedder here...I want to know how you deal with the ones that get away and end up all over the bathroom floor. I am a chronic hair-color changer and right now my hair is black. Our bathroom floors are a light ceramic tile. Even just four hairs scattered about looks gross and like the place hasn't been cleaned! Besides keeping a cordless handi-vac in the bathroom, or constantly trying to round-up the few stray hairs, I just don't know what to do.

As far as the sink - when I comb out my hair after a shower, I run my free hand through my hair as I go and gather up all the loose bits and just keep plopping them into the sink. I continue to do this as I style my hair. When I am all done, I gather it all up and drop it in the trash. This helps reduce the amount that gets down the sink drain but if my hubby gets to the teeth-brushing part of his routine before I am done then we have to do a preemptive wipe of the sink.

Maybe we all should just embrace baldness, men and women alike. ;-)

So glad I'm not the only one!

In college I lived with two other girls... and I would constantly get the long blonde strands of one roommate's caught up in my toes!!! eeew.

Finally one day, I caught her on the living room floor, combing out her wet hair... pulling the strands from the comb and tossing them on the carpet!!!!!! Eeeck. No wonder there is hair between my toes! Get a trash can over there blondie!!!

The other roommate wouldn't clean her hair spindle out of the tub after showering. Come on... that's just common decency!