Just as sleepy eyes and snotty noses can make boogies in the night, so can sweaters slumbering in the laundry conjure bobbles on their bellies, at the elbows, under arms. But don't send the tiny fuzzballs packing or they'll end up floating on the high seas. We have luckily a mini non-solution to the bigly microplastics problem: pile more pompom on the pilling — the disguise is drastic and just seriously super.