Our household of six includes four females who wear their hair long.Both of our showers have drain covers that should catch the hair and prevent it from going down the drain, but some hair has inevitably slipped through. We’ve dealt with our share of clogged drains over the years, so we’ve been concerned about those renegade strands.Well, we now have a little trick to capture the lost hair, but it might seem a little gross to somebody who doesn’t like thinking about bathrooms and hair, and for that I apologize in advance.When we shampoo and condition, it’s normal for us to lose a few hairs in the process–having been through great hormonal flux through four pregnancies, I have lost a lot of hair over the years.Here’s the trick: as we run our fingers through our hair, we make an effort to hang onto the stray strands and then stick them on the wall of the shower–we just unwind the strands from our fingers and press them right onto the wall. They magically cling.Okay, so it’s not magic. It’s rudimentary science. The moisture of the hair, steam, and water itself is adequate to hold the lightweight hairs up there until we’re done showering.Anyway, when we’re done, we just swoosh our fingers along the shower wall to swirl together all the strands. They form a little wad of hair. After drying off, we just toss the wad in the trash can.Very few hairs escape.And no clogged shower drains.I suspect that the older two girls who have been taking extra-long showers have been undertaking creative, artistic ventures, forming little line drawings by positioning the hair on the white canvas of our shower tiles, but I’m not 100 percent sure of this, because the hairs are all in the trash by the time I can inspect.This hair-on-the-wall containment trick has worked for us. The Belgian Wonder is super-supportive, pleased to minimize potential plumbing issues.For more Works For Me Wednesday ideas, hop on over to Rocks In My Dryer.Or, before heading back to Shannon, you can check out my own collection of odd and assorted WFMW ideas.
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Now THIS would make my husband a happy man. Ever since I grew my hair out, that has been a problem. Cool idea.
I can’t believe someone else does this! I have been doing it since highschool and it has always worked for me.
I can’t believe I’m sharing this, but I used to fashion the hairs on the shower wall into little love notes for my husband to see. Usually just a simple “I love you.” He takes showers after me so he’d see it and think it was sweet.
Okay, we’re a little weird at our house.
I do that too!! My husband thinks it is totally gross, but I just remind him of all the money we save by not having a clogged shower. I am the only girl in our family of five…so I am the only one to blame if the drain gets clogged!
I started doing this when I grew my hair out. My fiancee thought it was a good idea too…he bought me some daily shower spray so I could spray the walls. It was better than him having to take the drain out every couple days…
I do that too! It’s better than using Draino every week—especially after the hormonal upheavals you mention. I lose an insane amount of hair post-partum.
I do this too. It is gross though if you forget to throw it out after your shower and the next person discovers a hairball on the shower wall. But better than clogged drains.
I had 2 friends in high school (sisters) that would leave messages to each other on the wall in the mornings. I thought it was gross at first, but now that I have a chronically clogging drain, I see the sense behind it. ~:-)
Oh, I am so glad to see I’m not alone. 🙂
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one! My husband thinks it’s kind of gross, too — but he does appreciate that the drain isn’t constantly clogged.
So funny how many of us do this! I have never worn my hair long before this time in my life, but I’ve been growing it for three years now, and have been through two pregnancies – so lots and lots and LOTS of shedding hair. I sometimes forget to sweep the walls, and hubby gives me a “eww” look, but I know he would rather deal with it on the walls than down the drain!
I have “fond” memories of my Dad grumbling over the clogged (yet again) drain, thanks to my thick lock hair. Thick long hair drenched in Aqua Net, of course.
So now I keep my hair short. Because *I* have to pay the plumbing bills and the water bills. 🙂
Oh, and because I never looked good in long hair.
As you know, my hair is short, but I am going to print this out and give copies to all our renters. I’ve just been through the year’s records for tax time, and obviously, we are keeping the plumber in business!!!
I think this may be the grossest post I’ve ever written, but I’m relieved to know that it might actually be helpful to people whose drains are clogging…and it’s also been nice to meet others who have employed the same trick to manage and monitor hair slippage. I’ve got to quickly write something new, so that this isn’t the first thing people read when they visit the blog.
Oh, gosh, this is so funny. Hits home. I have thick hair that falls out. I’m always running my fingers through it and grabbing the stray ones and then discarding them. Hubby hates it!
Me and my five sisters learned this trick when we all lived at home. We all have long hair, and we hated having to ask our Dad to clean the drain out for us every five days or so…
I’m joining in, too! I started “saving my hair” years ago after getting tired of cleaning the disgusting mass out of the un-draining-shower-drain. I have taught daughter to do the same. The only problem is when we forget to throw it in the garbage — husband really doesn’t like that!
I do this too! I do however have a clogged drain right now for not sticking to this little trick and I don’t know how to unclog it 🙁
Annie, I do it too. Seems these odd (yet magnificent) thoughts are something we still have in common. It really grosses out Scott!
Pull out what you can from the drain, plug the vent, and then plunge it. Sounds gross, but buy a new plunger simply for this task. Needle nose pliers and a plunger… $10 or less.
Thanks for the tip, Bob! I’ve done this before…pretty scary what it brings up. Bleh. That’s why we try to keep as much hair as possible from going down the drain in the first place–to avoid the scary plunging! 🙂