How to get gum off of clothes

pasta_paul

Last night I somehow had chewing gum on the back of my shirt, and before I knew it was there, I leaned against a throw pillow on my couch, getting gum on the pillow too. How would you remove the gum? NOTE: This is different than the existing question of how to get gum out of a carpet , since carpets are typically stuck to the floor and are big. The fact that the shirt and pillow are "free" and small results in different answers (like the one...

Originally asked by BrettFromLA on Stack Exchange (lifehacks) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I put my shirt and the throw pillow in the freezer overnight. In the morning, I was able to break off most of the gum. There was still some stringy residue. I pressed duct tape against it, peeled it off, pressed the duct tape against it again, peeled it off again, and both the shirt and the pillow are now gum-free.

Full answer by BrettFromLA: https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/a/6337 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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