My son was wearing a nametag on this t-shirt and I put it in the wash.?
Question:The sticky part of the nametag has adhered to the t-shirt. Is there anyway I can remove this?
Answers:
Oh, I've done this. Short answer, not really.
Long answer, spending time with that shirt, your fingernails, a soft stick (like a clean Popsicle stick), even tweezers, pulling, scraping, and plucking as much adhesive off as you can, may make the shirt wearable again. Once you've done that, relaunder it, loading the bad spot with Zout (a commercial stain removal product much better than Shout).
Still got stickies or pilling? I bet you do. If the shirt can take it, get the adhesive that's still clinging hot, with really hot water or an iron (which may then have to be cleaned...) and pluck, scrape, and pick again.
Last ditch effort is to find a patch, a transfer pattern, a design you can embroider, etc. and put something new over that area.
Goo-Gone is available at grocery and Wal-Mart/Target stores. It's a citrus based solvent that will be safe to use on most fabrics.
It is designed to dissolve crayon, grease, adhesive, etc. Put the shirt sticky-side-down on a couple of paper towels, squirt the goo-gone on the back and let it soak through the shirt. Let it sit and activate for a few minutes, and wash as normal.
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