Or how about it when the hitch a ride on your socks and then trail around the house, up the stairs, to the bathroom, and the kitchen. My little circle of course. I do longarm and you do not want to know how much thread hits the floor there. For the floor in there, I take a piece of cotton batting that is left over, attach it to the swiffer picker upper, poking it in the holes on the swiffer, then sweep up those threads very easily and then just toss. It makes clean up much more simple than trying to remember to throw them in the garbage. I may have to try out the toilet brush option for the carpet. And I do hear you abuot those pins falling into the carpet. My husband finds them occasionally, only by sight praise God, but hands them to me with that "look".