Catch the hair on the cat, not on the pillow
Almost every strand on your bedding started as a loose strand still sitting in your cat's coat, waiting for the nearest soft surface to rub against. A brief daily brush, even two unhurried minutes while she settles in the evening, removes that loose layer at the source and is worth more than any amount of later lint-rolling. Short-haired cats release a steady fine drift that shows most on dark bedding, while longer coats shed in softer clumps that wedge into weave and fleece. Either way, brushing before the main evening settle matters, because the hours she spends kneading and circling on your duvet are when the day's loose coat transfers in bulk.
A morning and evening bedding rhythm
Treat bedding like a surface with its own two-minute routine rather than a laundry emergency. In the morning, shake the top layer briskly and pass a roller or a slightly damp hand over the pillow area and the warm patch where she actually slept, since fur concentrates there instead of spreading evenly. Smooth a washable throw over her favourite end of the bed during the day; the throw catches the daytime naps and goes into the wash far more easily than a full duvet cover. In the evening, a quick roller pass over the throw and sheets before you get in stops loose hair working its way into the fabric overnight, where body warmth and movement felt it in and make it far harder to wash out later.
Protecting the clothes you actually care about
No routine makes a cat home fur-free, so separate the wardrobe instead of fighting the whole of it. Keep the clothes you wear out of the house behind a closed wardrobe or bedroom door your cat does not have access to, and change out of them when you come home before sitting on the sofa with her. A roller kept by the front door, not buried in a drawer, handles the last-minute pass over shoulders and trousers where hair shows most under daylight. Dark fabrics advertise pale fur and pale fabrics advertise dark fur, so if your cat is a pale longhair, a mid-tone throw on her usual chair and mid-tone bedding will buy you visible calm between washes without any extra effort.
Laundry habits that actually release hair
Fur clings in the wash when loads are overpacked, so wash bedding and throws in a load with room to move, and shake each item hard outdoors or over a bath before it goes in, sending a surprising amount of hair out before water ever touches it. A tumble dryer, where you have one, is better than air-drying at pulling freed hair into its filter, so clean that filter after pet bedding loads to keep it working. Wash the bedding on a steady weekly rhythm rather than waiting until it looks bad, because hair left through several washes weaves itself into cotton and becomes the permanent shadow that no cycle quite removes. Wipe the empty drum with a damp cloth after a heavy bedding wash so the next load of clothes does not pick up what the last one left behind.
Keeping the small habit alive every day
This system works precisely because no single step takes more than a couple of minutes, and it fails the moment it becomes one person's occasional blitz. Split it the way households split everything else: one person brushes, another shakes the throw, and the bedding wash lands on the same day each week. When those tiny fur-control jobs live in KinsLe Care Teams as named daily duties that get ticked off with a timestamp, the routine survives busy weeks instead of quietly collapsing back into fur-covered pillows.