How to clean chewing gum stains from your clothes; it's easy ( + video inside)

We all like and need chewing gum (ok, some people like TicTacs only :) ) but oh boy do we hate it when gum gets on our clothes.
It happened to me, I sat right on a gum at a concert. I thought it ruined my pants. Tried to scrub it with a knife off, washed it afterwards... NO USE!

Until I came across a new method to clean those stains:

Step 1 Useless normal washing

Yeah, my pants have been washed yet the gum stain still remains.
I was considering to throw them, yet they were too comfortable to give up.

Comments

[mguer133]

Or do not eat chewing gums.. it made with petrol you know..

[mribrahimali]

diesel works just as well, but i am not sure of it going onto colours, you'll have to test it first on an inconspicuous area

[intactos]

Nice tip! Thanks, man

[janito]

I used WD-40 on my son's Polyester school trousers that had a chewing gum stain. I got the tip off this site. I sprayed some on the stain, gave a little scrub with a brush and the stain disappeared. I washed immediately in soapy water. It worked a treat!

[LinuxH4x0r]

You can also freeze the pants and pick the gum out

[gamer]

Rub an ice cube on the gum.

[Weissensteinburg]

I've never heard of vinegar, just freezing, like linux said. Neat!