If the stickers are in the dryer (not on the sweatshirt), it sounds like WD-40 and a terrycloth towel will do the trick.
If they are stuck to the sweatshirt (or other fabrics), I couldn't really find a remedy, but it's possible that:
1) soap and a lot of persistence (scrubbing) might work. 2) a non-staining oil (oil of wintergreen?) might also work. 3) Peanut butter might do the trick -- weird huh?
If this is a globby mess on a bunch of fabrics, I'd be tempted to try cleaning the one I care least about and use various methods until I found one that didn't leave a horrible stain.
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Try soaking in water, then rubbing with rubbing alcohol. (Test fabric first.) After removing as much as possible, rinse, Shout! or Spray and Wash it, rub it in, and repeat the wash.
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*still puzzled - and biting her tongue (read - fingers) to not expound on the myriad other ways to keep gum from getting in the hair to begin with*
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I've never HAD gum in my hair (that I remember, anyway) -- I just know that's the way to get it out.
Much the way I know that you douse skunk-spray victims in tomato juice, despite never having had to use that treatment either.
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Peanut butter is greasy, and so it makes the hair greasy and the gum *should* slide out of the hair, or at least not stick to any more hair while you try to disentangle it.
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Neither the peanut butter in hair or the tomato juice bath for skunkings has ever worked for anyone (or any pet) in my family. I definitely wouldn't try peanut butter on clothes; a co-worker did that to get gum off once, and was left with a grease stain that wouldn't come out even with standard grease stain treatments, PLUS a bunch of little pieces of gum still on her pants.
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Personally I would suggest ice, by making the gooey stuff cold, or gum it makes it more solid and easier to chip off. It might be a little more time consuming, but the fabric won't be stained by it.
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But a sticker is not the same as gum; you can try ice, but I'm not sure how it will work. I've found that rubbing alcohol does a very good job of dissolving the adhesives they use in stickers.
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Rubbing alcohol is cheap, and sold at all supermarkets and drug stores.
However, in a pinch, there are a number of other products that contain large amounts of rubbing (or isopropyl) alcohol: many hairsprays, perfumes, spray deodorants, other spray products.
I know that the high alcohol content of many hairsprays is good for taking out some ink stains.
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Why not? I am pretty sure my mom has used it to get tough stains out of fabric. I remember her recommending it to me, though I never ended up using it. so I can't claim personal experience with it.
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Shan, looks like you're not the only one who has run into this problem. The suggestions listed here seem to work while other people suggest you Undo the problem.
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