Removing gum from the carpet
As if parents needed any more reason to hate gum (other than the fact that it’s incredibly unhealthy and bad for our teeth), it also somehow always ends up on the carpet, in our hair, the bottom of a table and basically anywhere that isn’t the garbage bin. No matter how many times you tell your children to throw it in the trash, gum somehow finds its way to the carpet.
The same trick for getting sticky gum out of the hair applies to the carpet: to easily remove gum from the carpet, rub some Vaseline on the gum and around it repeatedly until the gum slides out. After removing the gum, clean the area with water and soap (this would be a good opportunity to wash the carpet, something most of us don’t do very often) – to get rid of any gum or Vaseline residues on the carpet.