How do you get tippex off a shirt...?
Question:my tippex sort of exploded all over my black shirt. How do I get it out?
Answers:
Tippex is water-based so a good squirting of spray-n-wash before washing should do it.If you don't have any on hand,rub a little dish soap on the spill then wash in cold water.
soak in cold water, add a small amount of dish washing detergent, rub in with your finger tips, then rinse with cold water, or pop in the washing machine on a cold wash temp.
YOU WILL NEVER GET IT OUT. NOT EVEN WITH TIPPEX THINNER. If you keep Tippex on your desk in winter and there is a heater under the desk, the heat rises through the wooden desk and heats the Tippex. As soon as you start unscrewiing the lid, even a fraction, it projectile vomits itself out of the bottle and acts like the monster in ALIEN. It knows where it wants to go, and that is over your clothes and your briefcase and shoes. If you usually have trouble getting the lid off Tippex cos it gets stuck a lot, you get in the habit of holding the bottle in your lap with one hand and tensing your leg muscles to help, you unscrew with the other hand. Don't do what I did..I went into the tearoom and stood in front of the sink with my Tippex coated skirt lifted up and bunched into the sink. I was just about to turn the tap on when the tealady came in and threw the hot watery residual coffee grounds into the sink onto my skirt. We ran cold water so I would not get scalded and then eased the skirt off. We made a peasant skirt out of teatowels tucked in the top of my pantyhouse and I went down to the foyer of the building to the shops. I went into the only dress shop there and tried on every garment she had in the shop. It took ages and ages. Nothing fitted. In the end I got something out of character for me. It had lots of pleated frills and tiny flowers and little ribbons hanging off. The only thing that fitted. I went into the only florist and sent an arrangement of flowers to the dress shop lady. I went back up to the office where the guys said HEY LOOK, IT'S HEIDI OF THE MOUNTAINS. A few hours later I got a call from a woman I knew vaguely but hadn't seen for years. She was sobbing. She said MY HUSBAND HAS JUST LEFT ME AND I AM SO DEPRESSED I WAS THINKING VERY BAD THOUGHTS AND THEN YOUR LOVELY FLOWERS ARRIVED. YOU ARE A WONDERFUL PERSON, BUT HOW DID YOU KNOW? The florist only had to take the flowers 3 doors down but they sent them to the other side of town to this woman's shop and she had the same first name as the dress shop woman. I didn't know the dress shop woman's surname. I waited a week and took the dress shop woman to afternooon tea and told her the whole story and she didn't mind that she didn't get the flowers. I couldn't afford another lot of flowers.
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