Stickers that won't come off

imme

Why are these things made the way they are.
You buy a new item and it has a sticker that just won't come off properly, i.e. you can't get a bit of the sticker off or the glue stays on.

It can happen on glass, cutlery anything.

And why are TK Maxx stickers made up of circles and other shapes.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Do we need a sticky for this thread?

Barry Badrinath

Feckin airline peanuts!

Amirite?

Are Am Eye

The stickers stickiness is a liquid glue.
Heat it up with a hair dryer and the sticker will come straight off
in one place.

For the more heavy duty stickers like 'No Parking' that is put on your car windscreen you will need something like nail polish remover to take off.

the_pen_turner

ct1 multi solve is great stuff to have on hand for this sort of problem

nkav86

Bought a 3 shelf TV stand, glass one side, matte the other. Feckin stickers across every glass piece drove me mad! So the top shelf is glass side up, the others aren't!

Daisy 55

Mr sheen and leave it for an hour.

the_pen_turner

what really annoys me is timber slips an mouldings. they put the sticker on the face side instead of the back. you end up cutting off 6" because it screws up varnishes

Dublinflyer

Spray a bit of WD40 on a cloth and give it a good wipe

cbyrd

Or coconut oil

antodeco

Get a sticker the same colour as the rest of the item and stick it over the troublesome sticker

harr

Hairspray or cheap vodka works a treat even a drop of petrol works wonders .

r93kaey5p2izun

Yes it's a head wreck. Particularly on books or magazines. Those responsible for this should be shot, along with those who authorise irritating clothes labels that can't be removed without opening the seam of the garment.

elperello

harr wrote: »

Hairspray or cheap vodka works a treat even a drop of petrol works wonders .

White spirit is good and cheaper than vodka but don't take a slug of it!

heroics

This is a pet hate of mine. Nice champagne glasses stupid stickers that won’t come off. Plenty of other places to stick stuff on the packaging. Why on every glass.

McMurphy

WD40.

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timthumbni

There is a product out there to remove the sticker without damaging the product.

I can’t remember the name but it’s supposed to be good.

Retro gamers particularly hate stickers. I’m seen some go full falling down Michael Douglas over a sticker on a snes boxed game.

dragona

imme wrote: »

And why are TK Maxx stickers made up of circles and other shapes.

So people don't pull off a €3.99 sticker and plop it on a €39.99 sticker I suppose. They don't come off cleanly, but in bits.

Dr Strange

Baby oil works well.

Atoms for Peace

Why don't you freeze them with an ice-cube and hit them with a hammer, works for me when i get bubbly gum in the 'oul push-broom.

Mr Meanor

This stuff, melts the adhesive.
https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/3M-Adhesive-Remover?N=5002385+3293194120&rt=rud

usually got at industrial cleaner suppliers like avsales might be a slightly different version but it will work.

Lorelli!

There's some kind of circular foil sticker on the pumpkin I got and it won't come off :mad:

When my friend and I were 17, she asked me to go to a pub because she was meeting a fella there. I didn't want to go and be third wheel and thought we wouldn't get in without ID anyway but she convinced me to go with her.

We got in and ended up spending the whole time giggling like the two schoolgirls we were because the fella she was meeting still had the sticker on his jeans

Gatling

Mayonnaise works a treat