Unprofessional Parenting

Some well meaning relative gave my son a giant book of Curious George stickers for his birthday. Since I was very sick all weekend my son pretty much ran the house and I emerged from my fog this morning to find our coffee table cleverly decorated with troublesome monkey smiling back at me. Being my experimental self I decided to run a search and find out the easiest way to get rid of the stickers without wrecking my table. As always, test any of these solutions on an inconspicuous area of your furniture before going whole hog - just in case.

Here’s what I found:

Goo Gone:  Final Grade  A! This was the winner. I suspected this would be the case but sometimes this stuff isn’t handy so I tried a few other things as well.  This was by far the easiest though. I sprayed it on, left it for a minute or two and was able to pull up the stickers as well as the adhesive. A quick wipe afterward with a damp cloth and all was forgiven!

Skin So Soft: Final Grade C-. I thought this was an odd recommendation but gave it a shot anyway. I left it to soak a few minutes and came back to check. If all you are worried about is a small bit of adhesive from a tag then this does actually make it easier to pull off. I still had to do that thumb-nail scraping thing though and given the number of stickers on my table this would have still taken way too long.

Baby Oil: Final Grade C-. Like the lotion this would work well for a very small amount of adhesive. Trying to get the actual stickers off was still a challenge though and did still involve scraping.

WD 40: Okay, I didn’t have this one handy this time but it’s worth a mention. I know it works relatively well on adhesive but I can’t testify to how well it would remove an actual sticker. My guess is it would work better than the lotion or the oil though so it it probably worth a try.

Good luck. I’m so very glad to have that monkey off my table!