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how to remove white board pen from white polo shirts!

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poppyboo · 09/09/2010 19:25

Help! Anyone? Grin

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jenroy29 · 10/09/2010 14:09

bleach!

vbusymum1 · 10/09/2010 14:11

he he I read that as how to remove white pen from a white polo shirt. Don't know the answer but it made me smile.

QueeferSutherland · 10/09/2010 17:18

I've never managed it!

jaffacakeaddict · 11/09/2010 08:38

Bin the shirt. I've tried two different brands of vanish and have left the shirts to soak for 2 days in a mixture of water and napisan. Although the stains faded they did not disappear. I only found out afterwards that my son didn't need to use the whiteboard pen. Apparently, the teacher gives them the option of using a whiteboard or pencil and paper. Might be worth having a word to see if this is the case in your school too.

flaime · 11/09/2010 11:10

The best results I had were with a combo of stain devils (biro remover ones) mixed with many doses of the liquid vanish which I would pour on and leave to dry several times before I washed them. If the pen has only touched the shirt briefly this does tend to come out. If it's been left in contact for a few seconds then it's in the bin as even neat bleach won't touch it Angry.

My DS wrote off 5 shirts last year and by day 2 of this year had written off yet another! Worse still our school has just decided to change our white shirts to special coloured ones which cost £5 each!! You can tell that the parent governers who haven't got a braincell between them thought that one through haven't got young kids of their own Hmm

mrsflux · 11/09/2010 13:30

try shout stain remover spray. i haven't found anything that won't wash out if you spray this on it first - puke, poop, curry, tomato etc.

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