Pets are our lovely companions, but they also shed a lot of hair which can prove pretty annoying. Even when you think you’ve chosen a breed that doesn’t shed much hair, it’s still enough to be noticeable across your home – and on your clothes.
While I’ve enjoyed trying out these quick hacks to get rid of pet hair in your home, I’m still left constantly battling the pet hair that attaches itself to my entire wardrobe. After all, it’s the fabric that pet hair is primarily attracted to.
How does it work?
Over on Instagram, I’m always on the look out for hacks, whether it’s using a spatula to make my bed or ’employing myself’ to spring clean, and my algorithm knows me pretty well by now. So, when @kiki.border.collie popped up on my feed, I stopped and listened.
As she demonstrates by pulling out a simple hair roller from her washing machine covered in hair, she reveals that as a dog mom, she simply has to place the velcro roller into her washing machine along with her clothes during a wash.
She explains in the caption though that there’s some rules to doing this. Firstly, she says: “Silk, lack, athletic wear, and other delicate fabrics should be washed separately!! Don’t test these life hacks on those materials.”
This hack is just for cotton, bed linens, jeans, t-shirts, etc. and any fabrics you know won’t be affected by the bristles of a hair roller, risking snagging or ruining your delicates.
Secondly, she says: “Velcro patches are not the same thing.” So, as long as you stick to a simple hair roller that won’t cost you more than around $5, you’ve got a hack that’ll gather up all that loose pet hair in your washing machine. Or, so she suggests.
What happened when I tried it
What I first loved about this hack before I even tried it was that it wasn’t going to cost me anything to try as I already had a couple of hair rollers lying around my home. And since I only have one pet, I figured I wouldn’t need to use many velcro rollers to give it a try.
I opted to pop two into my washing machine, especially when cleaning pet bedding, and I was totally surprised by how much hair they picked up. Even better, all I had to do was rub them together a little bit to remove the hair and they were ready to reuse.
I was also pleasantly surprised by how much lint they picked up, too. It’s a quick and easy way to gather all the fluff and hair that floats around in your washing machine and it’s super affordable.
But, I did have to spend a little extra time dividing everything up and run an extra wash through my machine for anything I deemed a delicate item. It was totally worth it though for the results. Either way, it’s definitely something I’ll be trying again and again.
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