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I feel like an idiot for not knowing about these.

Every 2-3 months I have to snake out our shower drain with a 25' snake. Giant PITA.

After some web searches, I stumbled across these hair trap devices. They come in both external and internal configurations. Many different types to choose from.

I purchased an internal one, installed it, and am going to give it a try. In theory I can just pop it out and clean it instead of snaking the pipes. Folks tell me they work well. If this one doesn't work I'll try another type. They are fairly inexpensive.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

As a father of a girl who inherited my both curly and wavy hair that refuses to ever get a haircut, a hair trap in the shower is a godsend.

And cleaning it out is gross.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I always glove up when I clean out the p-traps under the sinks. The smell is the worst part.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -2 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

I mean if you think about it- there's also pubes there.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Pubes are just different kind of body hair. No big deal.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

When it's your teenage daughter's pubes, it's a lot grosser.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I guess everyone gets wierded out by something else. Pubes of an offspring seem to me like a breath of fresh air after all the urine and poo and puking... well, puking may come again, but their babyhood prepares you for the things to come ;)

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I think the part that stinks is all the dead skin sticking to the hair and all the skin oils and bacteria accumulating on that mass.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Oh probably, but it's the pubes I think about.

I don't like thinking about the fact that I'm having to clean up my kid's pubes.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That sticky white mass is buckets of cum btw

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

I'm the only person in this house able to produce any amount of sticky white cum and that's not where I produce it, so that would be quite surprising.

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 19 hours ago

I don't want to think about what might be worse. We're talking about my teenage daughter here. If it was just gross stuff coming off of me and my wife's body...