After zipping through yet another lint roller, I decided it was time to look for an alternative.
My dog- and cat-owning friends have turned me onto the Fabric Sweeper for Pet Hair from Pledge. Originally made for cleaning pet hair off furniture and other home decor, my friends tell me they use this sweeper to get pet hair off of clothes as well. Pledge claims that one of their sweepers does the same work as 145 of those sticky sheets from a lint roller.
Certainly worth a try...it definitely puts less stuff in the landfills.
If you decide to try it, too, let us know about your experience with it.
Also, I just read in a housekeeping magazine that those synthetic two-sided scouring sponges work equally well.
Posted by: Aimee | October 26, 2009 at 09:27 AM
Colleen:
Isn't it interesting what a different perspective people have. Those of us who have pets don't think about having pet hair on our clothes as a bad thing (except when we're cooking), or as a sign of anything other than our status as pet owners.
But just a few days ago, on a professional listserv I subscribe to, one of the subscribers said that one time when she got turned down for a job that she thought she had a really good shot at after the final round of interviews, the interviewer cited the pet hair on her clothes. Apparently, she had dropped her suit coat in the car and picked up some (unnoticed) dog hair on it. The hiring manager told her that he took it as a sign that she was not detail-oriented.
Go figure. If that's your attitude about pets, I don't think I'd want to work for you anyway.
Posted by: Whitney | October 16, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Sometimes when I am at work I find a guinea pig hair on my sweater and I never want to pick it off! It's like a little sign that one of my gpigs is with me!
Posted by: Colleen | October 16, 2009 at 05:43 PM
Aimee--
Another notification email that got buried this week. Sorry!
I'll have to look into one of the velour things you described. I thought about the waste factor on the fabric sweeper too, but it takes me a while to fill it up. With me not throwing sticky sheets into the trash on a nearly-daily basis, I figure that's still *something* (albeit an imperfect something).
Posted by: Whitney | October 16, 2009 at 12:00 AM
I have one of these and they retail for 4.89 in my area. It is fast and works wonders but even the waste factor for this one makes me feel guilty.
The next best thing I have is the velour-covered paddle that you use to de-lint and remove hair from clothing and that works well for my furniture, too. Those cost next to nothing.
Posted by: Aimee | October 12, 2009 at 10:15 AM