How Do I Deal With Pet Hair Getting Everywhere?

As nearly anyone who cares for an animal can tell you, pet hair is a nuisance. It loves clinging to carpets and fabrics and mocks your silly attempts to vacuum it up. If you have cats (or some types of dogs), that hair also floats, settling down onto just about everything you own.

Fuzzy Furball writes:

Recently I adopted/rescued a 6 year old German Shepherd. She's adorable and has adapted to my place with relative ease. However, her breed should be renamed to German Shedder. I'm asking you and your readers for tips to remove pet hair from essentially everything. Hardwood Floors (I vacuum with an older model Oreck and minutes later there's hair again), clothes, car upholstery, to food and water bowls.

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Keep Kids from Getting Out of Bed Early with a Timer and Nightlight

Everyone who's ever parented an early riser has been through war—the battle against young kids waking you up at unreasonable hours in the morning. A simple solution to encourage kids to stay in their beds? Add a timer to their nightlight.

Parent Hacks offers this smart tip:

My three year-old daughter was a very early riser and would wake me up repeatedly to ask if it was time to get up yet. [Don't you love that? My kid would creep up to me while I was sleeping, and then wake me so he could demonstrate how quiet he could be. — Ed.] She was too small to read a clock, and although telling her to look for a "6" was an option, she didn't quite get it that 5 was not OK, but 7 was. I was looking for a simple "yes/no" cue that did not require her to do too much thinking if she were to wake up in the middle of the night. I did not want to set an alarm, because I didn't want to disturb her sleep if she were to sleep in.

My hack inspiration came from anelectrical appliance timer. I used it to rig her night light to turn off at 6 am and told her she was to stay quiet and in her room until the light turned off. After a minor setback when she turned off the light manually to make it "time to get up," it has worked like a charm!

Well, it's worth a try until your child starts hacking her nightlight!

Nightlight on a timer tells early risers when it's morning wakeup time | Parent Hacks

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Will getting an advanced degree limit your career options?

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