If you're over 30 hair is getting in your drain. It's a fact of life. For some more than others.

And getting it out of the drain is a pain in the ass like no other. Liquid drain cleaners work sometimes. On some clogs. But not always. What I usually do is stick a wire hanger down there and hope I can either force most of it down or pull most of it up. And I've pulled up some stuff that looks like something Jim Henson coughed up.

Here's something that falls in the damn-I-shoulda-thought-of-that category: a flexible, disposable drain snake with a velcro-tip, called the FlexiSnake.

You know from experience that Velcro will snag almost anything. Just shove this little snake down the drain and yank it back up. Clog fixed.

I like it better than dealing with chemicals. And it doesn't damage pipes like my wire hanger remedy.

$6.95 for a three-pack www.flexisnake.com