Who cleans your drain?

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So I had a burst of energy today and decided to clean out our shower drain, because I noticed water was starting to pool around the drain when I showered. Holy cow, I lose a lot of fricking hair..I cleaned it probably 9 months ago and I just can't believe that amount of hair I lose. Who cleans out your shower drain, you or your SO? If you clean it out, do you lose a lot of hair? I even lose a lot in my hair brush. I have to clean it out at least once a week. I can never let DH clean out the drain, that would be embarrassing as fuck.

[mustloveerica]

One time I went to clean out the drain and almost died of a heart attack when I realized I had picked up a centipede WITH MY BARE HAND.

.....so DH cleans out the drain now...

[samanthasays]

H and I have separate showers, so I clean mine, and yes, I lose a TON of hair!!! It is insane, and disgusting. I normally clean it every other month just so its not too nasty.

[kcones88]

At first I thought the subject line was a metaphor for something else . I lose SO MUCH HAIR! I shed all over the place. DH even finds strands of my hair in his work vehicle. We have to unclog the drain about once every 3 months and DH takes care of it. The only thing I know how to do is pour a gallon of drain-o down the pipe.

[RaeLynn28]

I make my poor husband clean the drain and the toilets. A couple times I have heard him gagging while cleaning out the shower drain. I'm chuckling just thinking about it. He says he's surprised I'm not bald, so I'm guessing I lose a lot of hair too.

[daisy818]

I shed like no other. DH cleans out the drain because it makes me gag. I really wish we had the type that would catch some of the hair on top so I could just wipe it up. But no, it just creates an awful nasty clog. Ew ew ew.

[longhornwino0907]

I lose an incredible amount of hair! We're talking I go to squeeze the water out of my hair after shampooing and I've probably got 10-20 strands on my hand. I use Drano on the regular to keep the drain cleaned out. And if it needs more than that, DH does it because it definitely triggers my gag reflex!

And I, too, thought this was a euphemism at first!

[Deleted]

I just realized that I'm an idiot and I don't "loose" anything. Lol!

[kawaiikitsune]

MH has to. One time, he was cleaning the drain and he pulled a foot long monstrosity out. I was gagging and puked in the trashcan. Nope, never.

[mrsjene]

H. I'll gag if I try to do it myself.

[daisy818]

Jan 26, 2015 16:11:16 GMT -5 @moonandback141 said:

I clean the drain. I also collect enough hair to make a small stuffed animal.

I am now picturing a teddy bear made of my piles of lost hair.  It is not a pretty picture.

[piccyami]

We both do it, but it has to happen weekly because it'll block the drain otherwise. I lose a lot of hair, but so does H.

[mugster]

We pay for things like this... (spoiled much)...

[dee]

I do... it's pretty much all my hair. Between how much I see when I clean out the drain, how much comes out when I brush it, and how much I notice in general shedding throughout the day, I'm amazed I have hair still.

So, so gross though. I prefer to have a bottle of few glasses of wine in me before I do it.

[negirl824]

I usually do that type of cleaning. I dont mind, if I asked dh to do it he would.

[twinkie0612]

I had to clean the drain for the years I lived alone. DH does it now. This is part of the reason I got married, so I have someone else do the crap jobs I don't want to do.

Seriously though, I have shoulderlength, thick, curly hair and DH got the idea to grow his hair out long and his is currently halfway down his back (I keep threatening to cut if off in his sleep because it's constantly in my face when he kisses me or other things). Even catching much of the hair on the grate, we still end up with giant hair balls that have to be cleaned out. blech.

[sister13]

I have a ton of very long hair. I also lose a ton of hair. DH snakes the drain when needed but that's been only twice in the last 7 years. But it is pretty unbelievable!

[nuggetrn]

I started reading this thread and then I stopped.

I think I mentioned in a thread here earlier that I make DH do it because I absolutely cannot.

Off to vomit now... thanks for this thread

[babycowbell]

My husband always does it, the slow draining shower bothers him way sooner than it bothers me.

[becwheat]

I clean DD's bathroom and DH mostly cleans ours. Both get pretty bad, but I am sure my hair is worse.

[PonyGirl]

DH does it. I lose handfuls of hair daily. I'm with the rest of y'all, I don't know how I'm not bald yet.

[carolinaheart]

Jan 26, 2015 16:33:44 GMT -5 W said:

I clean all drains. Actually, I clean everything in the entire house. I bet DH doesn't even know where half of my cleaning supplies are.

You would think DH didn't even live in our house. He has no idea where anything besides the refrigerator and TV is, let alone cleaning supplies. Lol

[mrsgbmack]

I clean it most of the time. I shed like nobody's business

[mtnmomma13]

We have separate showers for now, so I clean it. I'm glad I'm not the only one losing tons of hair. DH doesn't understand how it gets everywhere.

[raelynn71109]

Usually it will get to the point where the water is draining slowly, I'll keep ignoring it, and DH will pull out the nasty clog of hair and leave it on the side of the tub for me to throw away. Or he will throw it away and make a point to show it to me. Yeah, he spoils me like that.

[getzystark]

DH calls the globs of hair I lose either in the drain or from my brush a "Yeti." He usually clears the drain with a drain stick thingy but occasionally I do it too. I've been told that drain-o isn't good for the pipes so we typically don't use it.

[expatmama11]

This makes me think of the episode on Strange Addictions where a guy was addicted to taking hair from peoples drains. If I remember right he would do this in random peoples houses. It might have been the most disgusting episode ever!

I am also in the club of losing a ton of hair but it isn't just in the shower. I have to swiffer the floors all of the time to get my hair from being all over the place. I already have thin hair so it's amazing that I am not bald.

[mishy2010]

DH cleans out our drain once a week to prevent it from backing up.
My main takeaway from this thread is that my home would be so much better if DH and I had separate showers.

[talon]

Jan 26, 2015 16:04:47 GMT -5 mustloveerica said:

One time I went to clean out the drain and almost died of a heart attack when I realized I had picked up a centipede WITH MY BARE HAND.

.....so DH cleans out the drain now...

Fuck that I hate centipedes so much.

I shed like crazy. DH cleans the drain. He has to use a snake thing and drano to get all the freaking hair out sometimes.

[kawaiikitsune]

Jan 26, 2015 16:22:33 GMT -5 @usernamesarehard said:

Jan 26, 2015 16:13:46 GMT -5 daisy818 said:

I am now picturing a teddy bear made of my piles of lost hair.  It is not a pretty picture.

That just reminded me of the placenta teddy bear. Gross.

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EDIT: My 100th post was a picture of a placenta bear. Awesome. 

That is some serious nightmare fuel.