one of the many things i did on my day off today was to remove my old, peeling bumper stickers and replace them with a new one.
these old ones looked terrible:
the new one is geeky but i love it wholeheartedly:
it was really difficult scraping off the old ones. more difficult than i would have thought. in fact, i gave up and didn't finish... the "NL" sticker still remains, under the new one, and if you look closely you can see it through the symphony sticker. whoops.
i'm not a very patient person. ray always jokes that my favorite whiny line is "i just want it to be done...!" i often get frustrated with how long a task is taking and i start cutting corners just to be finished with it. not one of my most appealing personality traits.
Posted by xta at March 26, 2006 03:34 PM | TrackBackHey, I've got one of those XDU bumperstickers--on my minivan, sorry hipsters--I've only seen one other XDU bumpersticker on the West Coast (in a parking lot at UC-Santa Barbara, about eight years ago).
Posted by: Penny at March 26, 2006 05:02 PMI am just the same vis a vis getting stuff done and cutting corners - my motto is: If I can't do it half-assed, it won't get done at all.
Posted by: marianne at March 27, 2006 08:06 AMi'm a big fan of having all the best tools for the job so i can get it done as fast as possible without cutting too many corners. even if the tools are expensive.
as always, you should consult me for all things automotive. i would have loaned you my bottle of goo-gone, and advised you to get a razor blade in a holder/handle thingie. those two tools would have had the job done in a jiff.
if you have any remaining residue, the goo gone will take it off. just let me know.
and, because i know you like tools too, if you want to see j.'s rivet gun in action, let me know. i'm borrowing it to work on some gutter stuff.
Posted by: lisa at March 27, 2006 09:09 AMlisa, dood, i'm not totally incompetent! ;-)
i researched online for the best ways to remove bumper stickers, and the sites uniformly recommended first using WD-40 to saturate the area to help the sticker come off. which i did.
the sites also suggested pointing a hair dryer at the sticker to loosen them up. my only hair dryer is a weird-looking round diffuser, so that wouldn't really have helped. so i omitted that step.
but i then went at it with a wallpaper scrapr (also recommended) but in hindsight a razor blade would have been useful. touche!
after the stickers came off i used my own bottle of goo gone to get the residual crap off. goo gone ROCKS!
Posted by: christa at March 27, 2006 09:48 AMthat's funny about lack of patience. I have the opposite problem: in the middle of a project I start to realize how much better it would be if I just did things in a more complicated way, and also added a bunch of little details and additional steps. Before you know it I've got a project I can't (or don't want to) finish.
Posted by: Sarah at March 27, 2006 02:24 PMI thought for sure you were going to replace them with identical (but new) stickers.
Posted by: Phil at March 27, 2006 10:17 PM