DH housekeeping - hair in velcro

[Mamma273627]

I just need to vent.

DH trimmed his hair in the bathroom and he must have used his shirt or a rag or something to clean up and put it in the laundry basket. I did a load this morning and on the clean clothes there was lots of 1cm bits of hair on EVERYTHING.

I put it all on a second load and most of it has washed away, but a lot is stuck into the velcro of all our baby swaddles. There's a great culture where I live of passing on baby things and these were passed on to us secondhand. Baby isn't even here yet so I was washing them for the first time.

I am usually relaxed about housekeeping but this has got me feeling irrationally angry. There's so much of it, it's a bit gross to look at and what's worse is that unless someone spends a couple of hours picking a hundred hairs out of each swaddle I can't pass them on to anyone else, they'll have to be binned.

Please send advice or sympathy or talk me out of my annoyed mood. It's not the end of the world I know, I just needed to vent.

Could you use a lint roller on them?

I've tried, it's buried into the fabric, stuck in the hooks etc. Probably need tweezers to get it all out.

Oh god! Yeah I would be bloody well annoyed with him in that case!

Give husband a sturdy pin, the baby items and tell him to pick the hair out. He can do it while watching tv

Attack it with a toothbrush, gets hair out of velcro quite effectively!

Source - I have three disgustingly hairy dogs 😩

Stretch sections of the velcro over your finger to hold it firm and vacuum the hair off. Better still, get your husband to do it.

...and make him sleep outside until he has righted this heinous offence.

He should deal with it.
In future my husband got a beard bib and shakes it outside afterwards

Agree that husband should fix it. You made the mess, you clear it up.

Thanks! Will let DH take care of it!

Get him onto it

Good idea!

Hmm - your DH's hair is "disgusting"? Think you might be overreacting. Doesn't every peice of Velcro on the planet have hair or thread or fluff in it from the very first time it leaves the box?

We don't know from which body parts the hair came from, do we?,🤣🤣🤣

What you need is a brush rake - the wonderful Objects of Use in Oxford sells them online. Very small, absolutely wonderful for getting hair out of brushes and should do the job with Velcro.

DP shaves in the garden. Because I'm mean like that 🤣

@Mamma273627

I would strongly suggest you that you get a lice comb, better if it’s metal, and use it to scrape all your velcro fasterners.

It worked a treat for me and I was really happy when I realised their potential (other than for creepy crawlies).

I'm not normally so squeamish. It's just the volume of hair stuck on all the washing. Plus I can't give them away as they are - who would want them??

Yes I presume it came off his head, but I couldn't say for sure. 😅

I feel your pain. My partner gets bristles and hair everywhere. Next time, make him do it in the garden.

Someone less dramatic?

Get him to remove it! Then hell think twice about doing it again!!
Its his problem now...

@Mamma273627

surely if 'they haven't even been used yet' they're going to washed loads more before you would 'pass them on' so see what they're like by then.

why are you washing tiny baby things with your general laundry?

Just explain to DH why it's a problem (now, when presumably he's always done that) & ask him not to do it again.

It's just a vent/looking for advice post. Why are you even bothering to comment if you have nothing to say.

Think it's fine to do a wash together normally, hair aside.

Anyway yes I've told DH and yes he's going to take care of the velcro.

Also sent him a link for a cape to catch his hair when he trims it.