Though I like its low prices, I try as much as possible not to buy music and movies from Wal-Mart. The stickers Wal-Mart use for their price tags are ultra-sticky, and obsessive-compulsive collectors like myself who want their treasures looking almost-untouched hate those stubborn sticker residue that clings forever to their unopened collectibles.
I usually use baby oil (and sometimes cooking oil) to remove the sticker residue from the cellophane wraps of CDs and from other glossy surfaces like plastic or mylar. Once the baby oil removes the residue, I then would apply rubbing alcohol over the cellophane and wipe it dry with tissue paper.
There was a gross-looking sticker residue on the cardboard sleeve of my Inglorious Basterds Blu-ray. I definitely couldn’t use oil on paper to clean it up—the slip case would be ruined. So I looked online for tips on handling these kind of things. A product called Goo Gone was always mentioned and recommended. I knew I’ve heard of it before somewhere, but I wasn’t sure if I could find one in town. After a desperate search, I didn’t find any in all the stores.
There’s some work being done at the basement, so I cleaned up some of the mess yesterday. Guess what I found under the bathroom sink:
There’s a simple but very nice lesson that I learned from this. Sometimes the thing that we want most but think we couldn’t have is just right under our very noses! So seek—and you shall find.
Anygoo, with one little drop and one slight, very delicate stroke, Goo Gone made my Inglorious Basterds look glorious:
