I Bought a $60 Fabric Shaver and Now Nothing in My House Is Safe

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If you’ve ever discovered the unholy satisfaction of pressure-washing years of grime off your patio furniture, then you know the high I’m chasing. My new fabric shaver delivers that same weirdly joyful, slightly obsessive energy—except instead of blasting dirt, I’m annihilating lint balls.

De-pilling clothes used to rank somewhere between filing taxes and watching paint dry. I procrastinated so hard that several sweaters went out of style before I touched them. Then my favorite weekly top got pill bumps, and suddenly it was personal. Enter Steamery’s Pilo 2, a tiny gadget that would change my weekends forever.

First off, it’s sleek and minimal, so it passes the ‘leave it on the dresser without embarrassment’ test. It’s also palm-sized, which means storage is a non-issue. I started with my beloved knit pullover and was hooked approximately four seconds in. Then I realized this thing isn’t just for clothes. My living room chair, previously covered in fuzzy nubs, looked brand new in seconds. And a cashmere throw I’d almost surrendered to the dog because of its pill problem? Restored to glory by six tiny razor blades. I may have cried.

Much like pressure washing, de-pilling is weirdly meditative—if I could bill by the hour for this, I absolutely would. Fair warning: large, fluffy, or heavily pilled items fill up the lint canister fast. The included brush makes emptying it easy, but you’ll pause often. That didn’t stop me from shaving every textile in a five-mile radius; it just turned the mission into a marathon. Honestly, when the work is this satisfying, slow and steady wins.

Catherine Dash is a freelance design editor and prop stylist based in Venice, California. When she’s not testing new products and writing about interior trends, she’s likely on set sprinkling her styling fairy dust for clients like Nate Berkus and Chairish, perusing blooms at the flower market, or wrangling her two young kiddos.

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