It’s the white smush of death.
A shiny cover. The smell of fresh ink on crisp pages that
were bound just for you, just so you can sit back and read and weep and laugh
and maybe snuggle under the covers and is that a cup of tea on the nightstand?
A new book.
Then you flip it over and there it is, that dreaded little
rectangle, marked and barcoded and bearing the amount of money you shelled out
for your new baby. That nuisance. That sticky mess.
That price tag.
And in an imperfect world where price tags are mercilessly
stuck onto the book covers themselves, it is nearly impossible to remove this
stupid sticker without damaging the cover of your book forever.
Life’s just not fair.
For years, I have been struggling to remove the price tags
on my precious books without leaving that glaring trace telling me that
something was once taped there by a bookstore employee. Sometimes, when the
sticker is new, it comes right off. Oftentimes, I’m not so lucky. I either remove
it in a flourish but it leaves an annoying rectangular mark where it once was,
or worse, bits and pieces of the sticker remain on the book, haunting me
forever.
Luckily, my MacGyver husband has a way of removing those pesky price tags without leaving a trace.
How to Remove a Price
Tag and the Residue It Leaves Behind
