To those with kids and having to remove stickers from doors...

[silkiechicken]

Thanks for all these ideas! I may have to get a bottle of that goo-gone if the options I have here on the list of suggested items don't work. I am beginning to think that a few of the things on the door were glued on with elmers glue. Pretty sure that one should be water soluble. I was one mischievous kid... I'm choosing to ignore the few thousand glow in the dark stickers dispersed on the walls and ceiling in my room, although, I may take down the few hundred hanging plastic glow in the dark stars while I'm at it.

 

[ams3651]

one place i worked would run a flame over it guickly a few times, it heated up the adhesive and it came right off. Not sure how it would work on old stickers. By the way, you should see my picture window behind my couch.......

 

[mamaboyd]

You may also be able to steam the stickers off with kettle steam. Than just scrape the stickers off. I've had my share of getting thinds off walls and doors myself and I still have many years ahead of me, since my youngest is 2 and very mischeivous

 

[silkiechicken]

If anyone is curious, here's my door, the biger "clear" spots is where I started picking at it...

And that's just one side.

 

[jackiedon]

If you use fingernail polish remover make sure it's the one that has acetone in it. Acetone is what removes the sticky stuff so if you have just acetone it will work. That's what the hospital people use to remove stickers from machines and etc.

jackie

 

[mamaboyd]

Oh my goodness!! You were very mischievous as a youngster

That's going to be alot of work

Maybe rent one of those steamers that you use to get old wallpaper off, that might work faster?

 

[Poison Ivy]

Kim & Aggie will tell you to use Mayo! I love those two ladies. Seen them use it on a bunch of stickers some kid stuck on the door. They have the show How Clean is Your house.

Added they rubbed it on the stickers pretty good and let it sit for several minutes to let the mayo soak in then used a plastic spatula to get them off.

 

[Cassandra]

Hm. I might run over that with a plastic putty knife first, just to see what I could scrape off. (I'm afraid a metal one would leave deep gashes in the door.)

When my sister & I were about 8 and 10, we cut a bunch of pictures of models and house stuff out of a Sears catalog and glued them with elmers glue onto our bedroom wall making a dollhouse. I don't think we ever got it all off.

Cassandra

 

[ChickenladyinMN]

There is something else that will work and you probably have ajar of it in your cupboard - peanut butter will remove stickers and gum!

 

[MandyH]

Goof off is EXCELLENT, it's in the same place as the foo fone but it works way better. Also, liquid tide works great. Coiver the stickers and let it soak then they will usually rub off.