When I was young, I got a sticker from my dentist. I thought it was cute, and with no more thought than a tattoo gained in a drunken frenzy, I slapped it on my dresser. A couple of years later, I tried to pull it off, but when I ripped it off it left this fuzzy residue and a ton of stickiness. It was uglier than the sticker was. I think this situation happens to a lot of us. You can pull those stickers off completely and without sticky residue. This is how:

1.) Get a firm grip on a good corner: This is a very important step. Most of the time you get four tries, it is very important to remember that you have other corners. If you have a good nail, work you nail under the corner. If you have just clipped you nails, pick at it, only bringing up a small bit of it at a time. If it ever starts to rip (regardless of your method), try to work the skin of you thumb from the sticky side underneath the divided portion.

2.) Work Slowly: Even if it looks like its going well, rushing it is probably the surest way to ruin a sticker and you object. Its just like a band-aid, except instead of trying to reduce the pain, we are trying to keep from pulling out the hairs.

3.) Don't use products: Now, hopefully the steps above will get your sticker off, but if they don't, changes are you still want to get the residue off. There are a lot of products on the market to get rid of sticky residue. Don't use them! All you end up with is getting more junk on whatever your trying to get the residue off of. If you are working with a book, use water on glossy paperbacks and hardbacks. If you have a book with a textured surface, rub your fingers over the sticky area. The leftover pieces of sticker will roll up and attach to you fingers. If you are doing something larger or stickier, then you might want to consider WD-40. Do not put this on anything that you cannot wash with soap and water.

4.) A clean and partial sticker: If you rip off a sticker and the entire picture comes off, but not the sticking backing, you might think that the war is over. It isn't. The same principle applies to this 1-ply sticker as it did when it had the sticker on it. Do try again, using steps one and two. Pay very close attention to step two as the thinner sticker will be more likely to break up into pieces. Go very slowly and make sure that all sides are pulling up. If they aren't, run your finger or a metal nail file underneath it to losen up the edges.

And THAT is how you get a sticker off! So, the next time you want to pull of a sticker, remember, get a hold of it, make sure to go SLOW, and don't panic if it doesn't turn out the right way the first time.

I have all sorts of crazy stickers lying about and on things... I'm weird.
» ikimashokie on 2008-01-13 06:23:58

wow :O
» crz4manga on 2008-01-14 11:36:48

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