How to get hair and lint out of a broom
Standard plastic brooms trap hair and fibers deep in their bristles during sweeping, forcing people to peel out the gross gunk by hand or resort to tools like a toothbrush. This tedious manual cleanup ruins the experience of sweeping and leaves pet hair and fuzz permanently tangled in the brush.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1cleaning out standard brooms with a toothbrush
- 2peeling gunk and hair off brooms with hands
- 3using traditional palm or branch-based brooms that do not trap hair and fibers
- 4Using a seam ripper to slice through tangled hair
- 5Using a fork and a straw cleaner
- 6Picking the hair out manually with fingernails
- 7Using the end of an old comb
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“These ones don’t pick up the hair and fibres and hold on to it. Because after I finish sweeping with white man’s broom, I have to clean it out with a toothbrush to get rid of the lint and whatever else.”source ↗
“That’s definitely true, I hate plastic brooms for that. It’s so gross to go peeling all the gunk off with your hands after 🤢”source ↗
“There has to be a better way than just yanking out carpet fibers for 30 minutes.”source ↗
“I just pick it out with my fingernails 🫠”source ↗