When I was a kid, my older sister bleached her hair and grew it longish - longer than shoulder, but I don't think it ever quite got to BSL. She would sit around and "finger comb" her hair, actually just ripping through the mats. The living room carpet was always coated with a net of tangly fragments.

Yep, my mother didn't like that. 8)

I've found you can take a little pair of scissors and snip through the hair trapped in the vacuum brush. That makes it a lot easier to remove the mass of hair.

My mom just lent-rolls the carpet first, it's easy and no hair in the vacuum!

back from Canada.. woohoo... takin' a rest at my uncle's house before we drive home..

when I'm on the phone with nothing for my hands to do, I take a potato brush and "scrub" the carpet before vacuuming.. to remove all the hair to form hairballs. Then those hairballs just go in the trash! yay

I think my vaccuum doesn't like to pick up long hairs. I vacuumed my bedroom the other day, and the next morning scraped a handful of hairs off the carpet (I hadn't vacuumed in a long time). Maybe I should take a look at the vacuum brush to make sure it's not too clogged.

And I've also been trying to do my hair only in the bathroom. It is much easier to sweep up any strays.