The Original Mompodge

Do you know what this is a picture of?   A giant bottle of thin glue.  My kids use it for gluing finished puzzles together.  Completed puzzle can then be displayed in their rooms, since they enjoy the picture more than wanting to ever put the puzzle together again. 

Do you know what happens when your kids are done with their glue project?  The lid becomes dry-glued on.  Yup, no matter how hard you try, that lid is not going to budge.  Or so it seemed.

Here’s what you don’t do:

Don’t bang the lid on the dining room table.  I know this works for the unopened pickle jar.  The key to that statement is unopened.  Unopened.  Modpodge has been opened.  I know you think you’ll just knock the dried glue loose.  You’re right, but you forgot one thing… kids don’t screw lids back on very well.  So as soon as that glue is knocked loose, there’s no need to unscrew the lid. It’s already open.

So now you have:

Mod podge, sticky, runny, smelly, white glue all over your dining room table, your floor, and your new jeans.  Yup, you had those jeans for a week.  They’re now your painting pants. 

Well then, let’s try:

Pinterest: how to get out glue stains.  They tell you to scrape it out with a butter knife, soak in lots of water, even try nail polish remover.   All the how-to’s had great intentions… if you were getting out a dime size amount of stain. 

This is not the procedure for modpodge saturation.  There is no getting that out of your jeans.  You throw them in a cold wash; they seem better.  Everything is the same color… when it’s wet.  You throw them in the dryer.  Glue dries in a dryer.  It’s like you have quarters sewn into your jeans; they are that stiff.  And there are also discolored spots.  It’s dry now, so you can see them, and they’re all over.  These are never being worn in public again.