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One of the downsides of keeping a pet: Unless you're living with a naked mole rat (or you're a poor housekeeper), you spend more time than you'd like picking up hair that your pooch or kitty just shed with reams and reams of disposable lint tape. Two Real Simple readers have a couple of effective solutions.
Theresa Demonte of Long Beach, Calif. tackles cat hair, sans lint-remover, by putting on a wet rubber dishwashing glove and then wiping her hand over the offending surfaces. "The hair will stick right to it," she says.
For dog-lovers, Chris McGinness of Ipswich, Mass. offers the following tip:
I have two dogs who love my bed. Rather than constantly removing and washing the duvet cover to rid it of pet hair, I cover it with a matching sheet that attaches with Velcro. When the sheet gets hairy, I just replace it with a clean one.
Difficulty level: Easy
