TubShroom Review: Why You Might Actually Want to Buy This "As Seen on TV” Drain Hair Catcher

"Your hair/it's everywhere"—Dashboard Confessional; “Screaming Infidelities”, 2001.

Who remembers this little screamo ditty from the early aughts? (The video included clips of baby, pre-Breaking Bad Aaron Paul from an MTV movie called Wasted.) Whenever the song comes on, my husband claims it was written for me because my hair is indeed everywhere. It’s pretty thick to begin with, and since I have a hair-pulling disorder, I’m also usually wearing some type of hairpiece or extensions.

What I’m trying to say is, I shed. A LOT. I mean, I shed like an English Sheepdog in a wind tunnel. I watch hairball tumbleweeds roll across my hardwood floor every day, though I constantly sweep. Each time I wash my hair, I’m convinced I’ll be bald when I get out of the shower—how can one person have enough hair to sustain all the giant merkins that get caught in the drain?

So when I saw a Kickstarter video of the TubShroom drain hair catcher on my Facebook feed one day, I ordered it—and it was the best $12.99 investment I’ve made. So here I am, preaching to the unconverted.

BEFORE TUBSHROOM:

My husband and I had graduated to a standard metal drain hair catcher in our tub after way too much hair and pomade residue (my husband’s fault) was getting around the stopper, forming an impenetrable barrier of grossness. TBH it’s pretty nasty to see that wet hairball in the trap every time you shower, and even nastier to pick it up to toss it in the trash after you’re all nice and clean. Worse, if you let it dry, it just forms a drain-cover-shaped cup made of matted strands, which you then have to peel off. Not only does it look gross, it doesn’t even work. We went through the same monthly ritual—my husband slipping $20 every month to our building’s handyman, Cesar, who would snake our clogged drain.