Those price-tag sticker labels that refuse to come off without breaking apart can be so frustrating. Here’s how to remove Homegoods stickers as well as the peel-off price tags from Home Sense, Winners, Marshalls, and all the others, easily and in one piece.
If you’ve ever shopped at HomeGoods, HomeSense, TJ Maxx or any of the other stores in that family, then you know how frustrating removing their die-cut price stickers can be once you get your purchases home. Of course, the stickers are frustrating for a reason. There used to be a problem at those stores where people would take the sticker off of one item and switch it out with another item to make whatever they wanted to pay a cheaper price. Because of this, The HomeGoods people formulated a sticker that can’t be removed easily in one piece like regular rectangle price labels and have left millions wondering how to remove Homegoods stickers.
These stickers actually break apart into many tiny pieces when you try to remove them, which prevents them from being switched in-store. After many years of dealing with these stickers on my purchases and lots of silly scraping with a razor-blade to remove sticky sticker residue, I decided recently to see if there was a better way to remove break-apart price stickers. Now, I no longer need to spend 20 minutes of my life on each sticker, and I’m able to get them off with very little elbow grease or effort.
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Tools Needed to Erase Evidence of Pesky Price Labels
If you’ve ever become so frustrated with the price tag sticker on a gift that you’ve resorted to scratching the price out with a sharpie marker, or if you’ve ever just given up and left the half-peeled off label on the back of a vase or your new wall-art decorations and just hoped that no one would notice, this one’s for you.
Here are the tools that you’ll need:
- 1 hair dryer
- a minute or two of your time
If you run into a little difficulty, by chance, every now and then, you may want to have some kind of adhesive remover like goo gone nearby. If you don’t have that, a little lemon or rosemary essential oil are great for so many things as well as those last little bits of adhesives that can sometimes stick around. Simply saturate a cotton ball and wipe the last little bits of sticky trouble away.
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How to Remove Homegoods Stickers
So here’s what I discovered actually works. This method is great for all surfaces, whether shiny or matte, and you don’t need to worry if your item is waterproof or not because there will be no soaking in hot soapy water or harsh solvents.
First, take your hair dryer, turn it on to the low setting, and use it to warm up the sticker evenly for about one to two minutes. This process is much like what you do when you’re ready to remove vinyl decals from a wall. I’ll demonstrate with this cute bowl I picked up at my local Winners/Home Sense store.
Next, begin carefully peeling the sticker, starting at one of the corners. If you start to encounter some resistance or tearing, warm the sticker up a bit more.
You’ll notice that the sticker is much less prone to breaking apart at all the little perforations when it’s heated up slightly; this is because the warmth makes it so that the bond of the glue to the product is less strong than the bond between the different sections of the sticker.
It’s really so satisfying to be able to peel one of these stickers off in one piece!
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Have you dealt with having to remove break-apart price stickers like these? Do you have another method that works for you?
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Courtenay Hartford is the author of creeklinehouse.com, a blog based on her adventures renovating a 120-year-old farmhouse in rural Ontario, Canada. On her blog, Courtenay shares interior design tips based on her own farmhouse and her work as founder and stylist of the interior photography firm Art & Spaces. She also writes about her farmhouse garden, plant-based recipes, family travel, and homekeeping best practices. Courtenay is the author of the book The Cleaning Ninja and has been featured in numerous magazines including Country Sampler Farmhouse Style, Better Homes and Gardens, Parents Magazine, Real Simple, and Our Homes.