If ever one of your children steps on an impossibly large glob of sticky tack, and somehow spreads it over most of the sole of the shoe and into the deep crevices of the tread, I want to assure you that there is a way to handle it beyond pitching the shoe into the schoolrom trash (which contains only paper and no damaging gunk of any sort), but which will cause the owner of said shoe to cry in hysterics, despite your reassurances that you will take it back out of the trash when you're not in the middle of trying to finish school and start dinner, and that you won't leave him one-shoed for long, you just don't want the sticky tack spread any further before you can get back to it.
When chaos has abated, apply a liberal amount of Goo-Gone. Wipe down severely with a rag, and dig out crevices with a toothpick. Repeat 4 times. Scrub with dish soap. Return the offending shoe to its rightful owner, accompanied with a smile and a stern warning never to touch the sticky tack again, nor to ever even look at it again. Hug (the child, not the shoe), then check that an ample supply of Goo-Gone still remains in the closet. And add "sticky tack" to your shopping list, because that wad that you've been using for the past ten years just didn't make it. (And then consider if you shouldn't just ban the stuff from your house forever).
1 comment:
I wonder if that works in hair. We've had to use scissors for that before... never thought to try Goo-gone. :-)
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