How To Remove Sharpie From Table

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There's a little something floating around Pinterest that tells you all the magical ways to remove permanent (Sharpie) marking from unlike surfaces. It looked like just the thing for the Pinterest Busters to test.

Removing Sharpie from clothing using hand sanitizer?

I of our Pinterest Busters drew a llama on a shirt and attempted to impale information technology with hand sanitizer.
Removing sharpie by using hand sanitizer - does it work? Even after rubbing AND rinsing in h2o, all it did was blur the edges of Ms. Llama. We all agreed that although this was quite artistic, information technology did not wait good for the hand-sanitizer-attacks-sharpie theory.
Removing sharpie with hand sanitizer...does it work?

Removing Sharpie from walls with toothpaste or hairspray?

Kids get so excited when you say "Hey, grab that Sharpie and draw on the wall, okay?"

Removing sharpie with hairspray and toothpaste, does it work? Then you lot say "spray some hairspray on information technology" and the ink runs down the wall.

Removing sharpie with hairspray and toothpaste, does it work? Then you tell them to smear toothpaste all over the other drawing…and they get all giggly.

Removing sharpie with hairspray and toothpaste, does it work? Then you apply some elbow grease with more toothpaste and more hairspray…

Removing sharpie with hairspray and toothpaste, does it work? Somewhen you use enough elbow grease that y'all get the images to fade pretty darn good.

Removing sharpie with hairspray and toothpaste, does it work? All the same…you lot also realize you've taken off pigment at the aforementioned time. And so, I mean, take that for what information technology'south worth.

Removing sharpie with hairspray and toothpaste, does it work?

Removing sharpie from furniture with rubbing alcohol or milk?

As you tin see in the Pinterest image at the commencement of this post, wood is notated differently than furniture. All our Pinterest Busters wondered what exactly "furniture" meant. Was information technology woods furniture? Leather piece of furniture? Upholstered furniture? Plastic furniture? Nosotros opted to examination both rubbing alcohol and milk on the table top…because (at offset) Sharpie concluded upwardly at that place without us planning to put it there.

The sharpie bled through from the llama on the t-shirt…

Removing sharpie with milk and rubbing alcohol, does it work?

And the rubbing booze took it right off!

Removing sharpie with milk and rubbing alcohol, does it work?
Then a sure Pinterest Buster got silly, and drew a smiley on the table…

Removing sharpie with milk and rubbing alcohol, does it work?
…poured milk over it…

Removing sharpie with milk and rubbing alcohol, does it work? …and scrubbed information technology out!

Removing sharpie with milk and rubbing alcohol, does it work?

Removing Sharpie from carpeting with white vinegar?

A Buster went to work drawing a lovely skilful guy bad guy scene on a trivial carpeting…

Removing sharpie with white vinegar, does it work? …and the white vinegar did zero but smear stuff that scene around, no matter how hard we tried.

Removing sharpie with white vinegar, does it work?

Removing Sharpie from a dry erase board with dry erase markers?

Offset, use Sharpies to put some random artwork on the dry out erase board.

Removing sharpie with dry erase markers, does it work? Second, cover the artwork with dry erase marker scribbles.

Removing sharpie with dry erase markers, does it work? Thirdly, erase everything. Information technology really comes correct off. For reals!

Removing sharpie with dry erase markers, does it work? End effect? The Pinterest Busters found that most claims for the hard surfaces turned out to be true, while the things that supposedly worked on cloth items did not piece of work.

The Pinterest Busters also found that it is a lot of fun when someone hands y'all a Sharpie mark and basically says, "Wreck this, we're going to endeavour and fix it. And information technology's okay if we can't."

Lots of things are suggested for removing permanent marker or Sharpie from various surfaces, but which ones work? The Pinterest Busters that live with me decided to find out.