On my first Christmas as a mature adult, I was overjoyed when I bought my first Christmas tree and brought it home to my apartment. I thought to myself, "I will be decorating my first tree at last and be able to show my family that I can handle myself easily." That was before disaster strikes me.
I got pine sap all over my hands, my floor, my car, and even on my coat! Where is a mother when you need one? Nope, I promised myself I will never ask for any help from my Mom to show her that I am a big girl now, a lady in fact. I just didn't expect that getting and decorating a Christmas tree isn't as easy as they portray it on the television. There is much more work attached to it than what I presumed earlier.
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Now, how do I get started cleaning up this pine sap mess? I better start with my hands and work my way up to the other infected pine sapped items. I did the basic thing to do in removing the gunk from my hands by using soap and water but to no avail it didn't remove the pine sap. The gooey pine sap is starting to harden, what am I to do?
The best place to find answers is the internet so I quickly ran to my room and accessed the information highway. The first solution to my problem was Crisco, a brand of shortening. Unfortunately, I am not fond of baking or cooking so I moved on to the next answer which is butter or margarine. To my luck, I just ran out of butter. The post even says that butter works well with pine sap on cars and clothes, I will have to buy that for my other pine sapped issues and for later use. I thought to myself, "This is going to be a long day..."
Another answer was from a guy and he said gasoline works well with removing pine sap, eeew! There's no way I'm going to dunk my hands into some old smelly gasoline. I need to search for more answers. What's this? A bug's spray to remove pine sap from almost anything, double eeew!!! Never will I spray my hands with that.
I think I have found the best solution for my problem, either an alcohol or an alcohol gel hand sanitizer. I don't have the alcohol right now but I stink I stashed a hand sanitizer somewhere. I searched high and low until I finally found it in one of my handbags.
This is the moment of truth. I poured a couple of squirts in my hands and rubbed them together. Magically, the pine sap began to dissolve in front of me. The gooey sap turned into some kind of glue residue which can be easily eliminated by rinsing your hands with water.
Now that my problem is gone I can continue on with the other things affected by the pine sap and then finally decorate my Christmas tree. I used the sanitizer on the pine sapped floor and rubbed it with a mild scouring pad. It worked! My car sitting on the street had some droplets of pine sap all over the trunk area. I squirted a few drops on every sap and rubbed it with my fingers. Of course I needed water to wash down the residue. The pine sap instantly vanished as well. For my coat, I think I'd rather use butter than the hand sanitizer because it might ruin the color.
Removing pine sap is easier than I thought, thanks to the power of information highway, the internet. I won't be caught off guard next year during Christmas tree shopping time. I will make sure that I have my alcohol gel hand sanitizer ready.
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