Cleaning Tip #4

Removing Glue and Stickers from Surfaces

If you have children around the house, this cleaning tip is for you. Children often end up dribbling glue on furniture. Additionally, either with approval or not, children end up putting stickers on furniture and other items around the house. If this is the case in your house, you may have established an unwanted routine trying to figure out a way that you can remove things like stickers and glue from surfaces around the house.

There is a very process to remove glue, and stickers from the surfaces in your house that you don’t want them on. To remove stickers and glue from furniture surfaces, pour some vegetable oil on them and rub them off.

Yes, it is that easy (and cheap)! You just apply a small amount of vegetable oil to the sticker or glue. With a soft, clean cloth, apply some pressure to the sticker or glue and slowly rub the sticky stuff away.

Using vegetable oil works to make sure that you do not harm the furniture in the process of removing glue and stickers. Unfortunately, even some of the best selling major brands on the market cannot promise that using their products to will not stain or damage furniture surfaces in the course of using them.

By using vegetable oil to remove stickers and glue, you will also be saving some money. Most of the store bought products designed to remove these unpleasant residues in reality cost quite a bit. Vegetable oil, in contrast,  is inexpensive and probably something already in your pantry.

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