Advice on Getting Gum Out of Clothes

Use ice. It works great!! Rub it on area of shorts that have gum on it.

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This same thing happened to my daughter a few months ago. I used ice and it came right out!

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Try freezing the gum with an ice cube and then scraping it off with a dinner knife. Either that or the peanut butter thing are things I remember my Mom doing (we haven't had this particular problem at our house yet!)

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Skin So Soft or WD-40 will break down the gum (or any other sticky substance - like adhesive on stickers that stay on glass, etc.). Use it sparingly and keep in mind that you might have a 'grease spot' - I would use it - get the gum out, then use something like ERA or Shout on the oil to get it to lift out, then wash immediately.

I've heard that putting the item in the freezer until the gum hardens, and then scraping it off.

put some ice on it to freeze it. then it will pop off. use a degreasing cleaner like Dawn to spot clean then wash as usual.

Stick the shorts in the freezer for a few hours, then the gum should peel right off. This same principle works for gum on carpet, only you put ice cubes on it. The gum freezes quickly and isn't sticky. Watch out, though. It also thaws quickly, so you may have to do a few trips to the freezer, or use ice cubes from the get-go.

Not sure about clohing - but peanut butter takes gum out of hir. G.

Goo Gone is a wonderful product. I've used it to remove the gummy stuff left after washing a shirt with a sticker on it. It works great to get the goo from tags off of glass. I haven't had any problem with it staining clothes. I usually sturated the area with the Goo Gone get the stuff off and rinse the fabric and then put some dish washing soap on the area to get the Goo Gone out.

Good Luck!

Goo Be Gone get's anything out. Get it at Hobby Lobby. Also takes sticker stuff off mirrors and crayon off walls.

Peanut butter is supposed to dissolve gum. If it is in clothing, peanut butter is oily so you can put a dab of DAWN soap on the clothes after using the peanut butter (BEFORE putting them in the wash) and scrub if there are any oil marks left on the clothing. DO NOT put clothes in the wash with DAWN soap unless you want a huge soapy mess on the floor!
** I have never tried this, just heard that peanut butter dissolves gum and DAWN dish soap gets out oil stains on clothes.**

Hope this helps!

I agree with the ice suggestion. I always have just rubbed an ice cube on it, then gently scrape with a butter knife.

Have you tried rubbing peanut butter on the gum and then washing the shorts?

I've always been able to get gum off ANY fabric by taking a paper towel and setting it on top of the gum stain and taking the iron and rubbing it over the top off the paper towel. It will melt right onto the towel. You will need to repeat it over a few times maybe, but I promise it will come right off. This works well if it ever gets on carpeting in the house, or on the floor off your car....can you tell I've had to do this a few times...LOL

A.

Hi C.,

I dried a hoodie sweatshirt that had a stick of gum in the pocket 3 times before I found it. I've found ice works the best. Just rub an ice cube over the gum and it hardens so you can pick it off in little bits. You will have to keep working at it, but it does work.

Is it a color change or just gum stuck on the clothes? First, would be to remove as much as possible. I've come to discover that a butter knife works best for me with this. Slow work, but normally if I continue to scrap in one direction, it eventually comes loose.

Good luck,
D.

Rub the areas of gum with lots of peanut butter...the gum will dissolve! Good luck!

Goo Gone, in the laundry aisle.

My son got gum on a pair of shorts a couple of weekends ago. I laid them on the kitchen counter and put a piece of ice where the gum was on the shorts. Let them sit there a little while until the gum froze and it came right off.

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I have been told an ice cube, peanut butter or mayo. I hope this helps you out.
G. R.

Here's a cheap way to get gum out of clothes or carpet.
Get an ice cube and rub on it untill the gum is hard or frozen, then you can pick it off.

What worked in my daughter's hair was to freeze it and it cracked off.

Peanut butter works wonders on gum in hair so it may help if the ice thing doesn't work out so well... Also, the suggestion about the paper towel and iron sounds good to me. I do that for wax...
C.

Sometimes rubbing ice on it will work. You can also try "OOPS!". You can buy it at Walmart or a hardware store. It stinks and it's toxic around kids.

Put Peanut Butter on it, then scrub with an old toothbrush. Obviously then wipe off the peanut butter and launder. Works everytime for me!