Rubber Gloves Instead of Lint Rollers?

Today life hack was the most annoying and difficult life hack I’ve ever tested out. It was so monotonous that I almost gave up. But I stuck it out and finished it because that’s how dedicated I am to this blog. Read on to find out why this life hack was a nightmare.

This life hack says you can use rubber gloves like a lint roller to remove pet hair from clothing. There’s no real trick to this one. You don’t have to cover the rubber gloves in glue first or spread any liquid to get the fur to stick to the gloves. The hack says you just rub the rubber gloves all over the clothing to get the fur off.

My younger brother was gracious enough to let me try this on his winter jacket. It already tends to get dog fur stuck to it so I thought it would work well for this hack. I figured I would let my dog sit and play on it for a few minutes to really get it covered with fur. I regret everything.

After about five minutes of letting my dog role around on my brother’s coat I was satisfied with the layer of dog fur covering it. I donned my trusty rubber glove and went at it. At first things looked good. The glove was getting some of the fur off. This life hack was working.

 

I decided to keep at it for another few minutes. But as the minutes turned into hours, the hours into days and the days into years (Okay so maybe it just felt like years) I began to realize some of the fur would just never come off. The right side of the coat in the image below shows the outcome of using the rubber glove to get fur off the jacket.

I then grabbed a lint roller and went to the other side of the jacket to see if it worked better than the rubber glove. It did.

 

The left side of the image below is the result of using the lint roller on the coat. It worked better than the rubber glove that I used on the right side.  

 

The lint roller was easier to use and worked better than the rubber glove. To be fair the rubber glove did work but I would never use it in place of lint roller. The only way I would recommend use this hack is if you don't have a lint roller and it's an emergency.

This life hack gets a slight pass from me.

Then came the part that really annoyed me. After I decided the lint roller worked better than the rubber glove at getting fur off the coat there was still hair on the coat. I continued to lint role my brother’s jacket for another thirty minutes after I was actually finished with the hack. At one point, I got so desperate to get the hair off I actually took a vacuum cleaner hose and tried to suck the fur off the jacket. It didn’t work any better than the lint roller.

In the end, the only real lesson I learned from this hack is to not let your dog play on top of your clothes.

If you have any fur removal hacks that work for you I’d love to hear about them below in the comments. As always, if you are interested in reading about any other life hacks I’ve tested out you can find all of them in the blog archive to the right. Stay tuned for more life hacks every week.