Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture

RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Hard Wood floor Post By Eddie (Guest Post) (07/04/2008) My 4yr old wrote on my oak floors with dark blue permanent marker.(I was told three days later) I used a light colored Dry Erase Marker and wiped it clean with a paper towel. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By (Guest Post) (06/25/2008) Wow! thank you soooo much! I didn't know what I was gonna do with the permanent markings on my kitchen table! I have guest coming over tonight, so I was even more freaked out. Thank goodness I have a Magic eraser handy! I didn't even think of that! Thank you again! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By AM (Guest Post) (06/25/2008) My daughter wrote on our wood desk with a black permanent market. I tried the eraser trick and it worked! The eraser took the markings right up. Thank you so much for the good cleaning tip! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By amy (Guest Post) (06/24/2008) i used some Mean Green and a scratchy sponge to remove it off of my Honey Pine Kitchen Nook and it done the trick. It left no marks behind and the sponge didn't hurt the finish or anything. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By kmr68 (Guest Post) (06/11/2008) Wow! Mr Clean took the permanent marker right off my brand new hardwood floors! Thank you for the advice. There is no trace of anything left. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By meee (Guest Post) (06/11/2008) I was writing with green sharpie on my computer table and the marker bled through the paper onto the computer table. Pencil Eraser took it all off! Thanks so Much! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Melissa B. (Guest Post) (06/11/2008) I just helped my Boss's son remove permanent marker from the custom built desk in his Dad's office by combining two of the suggested methods: overwriting with dry erase marker and removing it all with a pencil eraser. Thanks! Report Spam or Abuse Yes! Post By Will (Guest Post) (06/08/2008) Wow I just saved my girlfriend's sister from being in trouble with the parents.. The MR CLEAN MAGIC ERASER worked so well! Thanks Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By janelle (Guest Post) (06/07/2008) Nail polish remover works great on white finished desk. I saved my sisters butt! (: Thanks! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Lauren (Guest Post) (06/04/2008) I googled "removing permanent marker from wood furniture" and it brought me here. The Mr Clean Magic Eraser did the trick after I accidentally let some green sharpie transfer onto our natural (light) wood dining table. Just a tip for others who come here - I accidentally got acetone nail polish remover on the coffee table once and it stripped the varnish. I highly recommend NOT using anything with acetone unless it is a last ditch effort! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Wendy (Guest Post) (05/31/2008) My daughter made me a pretty picture with permanent markers but the whole thing bled through the paper onto my new sofa table. I tried suggestions above. The pencil eraser did very little. The dry erase marker worked a little but then I remembered I had some Mr. Clean Magic Eraser and that worked FANTASTIC! No damage to wood and it came up so fast! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By D.Lessen (Guest Post) (05/28/2008) My daughter got permanent marker on our cherry table. My wife worked on it for a couple of hours using rubbing alcohol, and this did get a lot of it off, but not all. Eventually we switched to fingernail polish remover (acetone). This did the trick, but a word of caution, as a chemist I've used acetone for cleaning purposes on various items, sometimes with disasterous results... melting plastic, varnish and paint removal etc. So test it on a small section with a q-tip. I also think methanol (wood-grain alcohol) would work well and be less stressful to the wood than acetone, but I'm not sure this is available over-the-counter. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Dianna (Guest Post) (05/26/2008) I use dry-erase markers to remove permanent marker from any shiny surface. Whatever is in the dry-erase marker eats right through the permanent marker and it just wipes away like dry-erase. I always try to use a yellow dry-erase marker so I don't add more color to the problem. I've tried it on finished wood but I wouldn't recommend it on unfinished wood. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By (Guest Post) (05/18/2008) Outstanding advice. Thank you! Pencil eraser did the trick for us too! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Tracy (Guest Post) (05/11/2008) I stepped on a Sharpie lying on my hardwood floors while we were moving. I used rubbing alcohol to get the dark spots off but it did not get a lot of it. Then, I tried pencil eraser and it came right off and did not harm the floors at all! Thanks for the great advice...I couldn't even imagine showing that to the buyer! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Tracy (Guest Post) (05/09/2008) I stepped on a Sharpie lying on my hardwood floors while we were moving. I used rubbing alcohol to get the dark spots off but it did not get a lot of it. Then, I tried pencil eraser and it came right off and did not harm the floors at all! Thanks for the great advice...I couldn't even imagine showing that to the buyer! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Kelly (Guest Post) (05/06/2008) Yes, rubbing alcohol removed permanent marker from my antique wood table with no damage. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By T King (Guest Post) (05/02/2008) Use hairspray. I have a brand new table my daughter used black permanent marker. Hairspray took it right off. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Sarah (Guest Post) (04/26/2008) I don't know what kind of marker my 20 month old used, I swore it said "washable" on it. Lysol took some of it off, rubbing alcohol took the rest off. Goo gone didn't do anything for it at all. Thanks for all the recommendations! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Barbara (Guest Post) (04/22/2008) Off bug spray. It really worked on our wood cabinets that were covered (from my 2 year old) with black permanent marker. Thank you for the tip! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Betty (Guest Post) (04/12/2008) I used a pencil eraser to get out red sharpie splatter on a light wood surface. It came right off! Thank you for the tips! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By crickett (Guest Post) (04/01/2008) My boss just bled through his papers with a sharpie onto our gorgeous conference table. Pencil eraser made it good as new! Thanks! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Naomi (Guest Post) (03/31/2008) A simple pencil eraser worked to remove sharpie from my wood desk in seconds!!! Thank you Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Jojo (Guest Post) (03/28/2008) PENCIL ERASER WORKED! Permanent marker on fir floors. Thanks for the great tip! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By melissa (Guest Post) (03/17/2008) I was devastated when my 3yr old cousin wrote on my mother's fine wood center table. I wanted to spank her and leave this world because I would've never heard the end to this incident. But I used some fingernail polish to remove the marker. All you have to do is place some Polish onto a washcloth and gentle place the washcloth on top of the stain and gentle dab the surface. Not hard. And it should come right up. It also works great on glass too. It does miracles. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Whitney (Guest Post) (03/08/2008) This web site saved our children! I have forwarded this info to everyone with kids!on my e-mail list! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By . (Guest Post) (03/08/2008) My two year old made huge circles with black sharpie on the hardwood floor. It took about 20 minutes of scrubbing with fingernail polish but we finally got it out. Noticed that the progress was much faster when we scrubbed AGAINST the grain. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Mark (Guest Post) (03/05/2008) I was about to beat my kid, (kidding) but our brand new cherry wood desk got stained! Black sharpie! Mr.Clean pads took them all out! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Susan (Guest Post) (03/03/2008) After picking myself up off the floor when I realized my son had accidentally written with a black sharpie at our $$$ cherry desk, I quickly did a "google" search of how to remove it. I didn't expect it to work, but the alcohol did it! I will forward that piece of information to all my friends! I'm so relieved, and so is my son! :) Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Kelly (Guest Post) (02/26/2008) WOW! After finding this site, I am amazed at the results. My 4 yr. old son was doing "artwork" on our beautiful Ethan Allen oak coffee table and the blue permanent Sharpie marker bled through onto the table as he was drawing. I tried the Mr. Clean Magic Marker and within a minute or so after scrubbing, it all came off without hurting the finish. My table looks as if nothing happened! Thanks for your great tips!!! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Jaci Poplin (Guest Post) (01/30/2008) I used eraser on green permanent marker on a light pine wooden table -- had to use elbow grease in some spots but it came out - I was amazed! Saved the day! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Jennifer (Guest Post) (01/30/2008) I love this site. I used rubbing alcohol to remove black sharpie from my daughters WHITE pottery barn bed. It really works. I have tried hairspray, magic erasers, polish remover and the alcohol was the only thing that would touch it. It didn't even take the white off! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Petra Wright (Guest Post) (01/30/2008) I used the eraser on my kitchen table and the black marker came out! Thank you all so much! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By (Guest Post) (01/25/2008) My daughter used perm marker on my new kitchen table. I thought it was ruined. I tried the pencil eraser and it didn't work so I used rubbing alcohol. It worked great. A million thanks! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By (Guest Post) (01/23/2008) My 3 year old took a Sharpie to her baby brothers brand new dresser! I used rubbing alcohol and it came right off! Thank you so much! I thought I would never get it off! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Louie Keefer (Guest Post) (01/21/2008) Lysol did the trick, after we tried goo gone, and simple green. WOW, simply amazing. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By (Guest Post) (01/21/2008) I just used a regular pencil eraser and it worked like a dream on my oak cabinets. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By amy (Guest Post) (01/20/2008) My 18 month old drew all over my brand new bedroom set with a sharpie. I used awesome. It worked on finished wood but not on the unfinished. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Vince, Cincinnati, OH (Guest Post) (01/18/2008) Wow, thank you for the suggestion. The black Sharpie marker came off of our oak dining room table in less than 1 minute. Thanks, again. Vince Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Dawn (Guest Post) (01/16/2008) AMAZING! One of my kids got marker on my new kitchen table. In an effort to find some way to get it out I found this site first. I used the pencil eraser and the marker just disappeared! Everyone with little kids needs to know this!! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Wendy (Guest Post) (01/13/2008) OMG. I am so glad I found this website. My niece used permanent black marker on my light stain wood desk. I got it out in 2 minutes with a pencil eraser and a little elbow grease. Thanks so much! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Nicole (Guest Post) (01/12/2008) I was babysitting once and one of the kids was coloring with a sharpie marker and got it all over their wooden furniture. All I had to do was get a pencil eraser and rub it on the spots where there was marker and it came right out. I advise you to use this because I know you won't regret it! Report Spam or Abuse sharpie pen rubs out with pencil eraser! Post By shifrah (Guest Post) (01/10/2008) This happened to me right now! It was a black sharpie pen I had used on my poster and it went through onto my desk which is very light, if this has happened to you recently, use a pencil eraser and rub it out. Hopefully it will work, if it doesn't I advise that you should use a cleaner product, like some mentioned here. Hope this helps =) Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Ken (Guest Post) (01/07/2008) Sun Magic worked. My 3 year old put Sharpie permanent marker on our Oak desk. It took my wife about 5 minutes to take that off with Sun Magic and a cloth. Sun Magic did not damage the finish on the desk, and that marker stain is gone. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Geoff (Guest Post) (01/07/2008) I had to remove a not so flattering autograph from a silver fine tip permanent marker on a MLB bat, so my buddy could resign it w/ a more appropriate silver sharpie. Nail Polish remover couldn't do it, but the good old Mr. Cleam Magic Eraser worked like a charm, Kudos Mr. Clean! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By omi and maggie (Guest Post) (01/07/2008) My granddaughter went to find nail polish remover and brought rubbing alcohol, her doubting grandmother was hesitant, but it worked to get the black sharpie off the wood dining room table, light oak. Something new every day, necessity is truly the mother of invention. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Jen (Guest Post) (12/21/2007) Found my 20 mt. son, using a silver paint style permanent marker on my dark cherry furniture. It was already dry. Rubbing alcohol didn't work. So I found this site and got out my trusty Magic Eraser. Worked perfectly. Thanks Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Lucy (Guest Post) (12/20/2007) I just wanted to say that I removed 3 year old permanent marker from an oak table with nail polish remover. Worked like a charm! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Joyce in southeast Ohio (Guest Post) (12/12/2007) I just got a bunch of video boxes from eBay, and some of the titles were still on them, written in permanent black marker. I sprayed them with Awesome cleanser and scrubbed a little bit with a washcloth, and the letters came right off! A couple of years ago, I found a steal on a round, solid oak pedestal table that had orange crayon marks all over the top. I used Awesome on it as well. Awesome is a yellow liquid that comes in an almost-clear plastic spray bottle with red lettering. And, it is awesome as well as non-toxic. I use it for all kinds of things, sometimes direct from the bottle, and sometimes diluted depending on what I'm cleaning. Hope this helps! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By D Westfall (Guest Post) (12/11/2007) Thank you Mr Clean! You've saved the day again! After "weeks of sleepless nights and days full of horror" my wife was able to use her Mr. Clean Eraser to totally remove Sharpie marker off our dining room table in about 20 seconds. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By (Guest Post) (12/05/2007) My son wrote on my 4 day *new* table with a sharpie..I tried the Magic eraser, but it was taking the finish/sheen off...will the bug repellent do that too? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Kristen (Guest Post) (12/01/2007) THANK YOU THANK YOU! The Bug Repellant trick worked perfectly on my bedroom wood furniture that our two year old decorated with a blue Sharpie!! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Diane (Guest Post) (11/24/2007) Hey, the Mister Clean Magic Eraser worked GREAT! Thanks for the tip. Our granddaughter had used black and red permanent marker on our oak dining room table. Yikes! The eraser took it off with no problem and no scratching of the finish! Thanks again for the great information. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Emmy (Guest Post) (11/19/2007) My son wrote with permanent marker on my office desk. I tried alcohol and lysol, but it didn't work. I didn't have a magic eraser, and I wanted to clean it off before my husband got home. I tried my nail polish remover, and the stain came right out. Nail polish remover also took it off my son's hands. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By karen (Guest Post) (11/16/2007) The MAGIC Eraser worked for me. I had black sharpie on an antique oak dresser, courtesy of my 2 yr old. I just read this and pulled it out. It came off in about 30 seconds. Now I can let my mother back in my house! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By (Guest Post) (11/14/2007) Please be careful using the Mr. Clean magic eraser. I saw a special the other night where I little child had severe burns to her face,hands and arms from using this product. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Jessica (Guest Post) (11/12/2007) I just found my 4 year old daughter with a wide tip blue permanent marker in her hand, and in front of her on my cherry side table was her name written in 3-inch block letters with the same blue colored ink. I jumped on the computer, found this site, and ran to my econo-sized box of Magic Erasers....never would have thought to use it on the wood. The ink came off no problem....THANKS! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Rich (Guest Post) (11/10/2007) Magic eraser did not work for us, but OFF bug repellent did! We were shocked. Thanks for the advice. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By (Guest Post) (11/09/2007) Magic Eraser worked like a charm - of course, I've owned it forever and used it before but until I read the posts, I never knew it had to be wet!!! LOL!!! No wonder it only worked so-so before. The Magic Eraser cleaned Sharpie off my dining room table that had been there for MONTHS. And it cleaned off the new Sharpie that was all over my desk this morning :-) Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Michelle (Guest Post) (10/20/2007) I just read this after my 2 year old took a thick point black sharpie to our hardwood floors. Oh, everywhere! I used the off and it made it lighter but didn't completely remove it. Am off to buy the Magic Eraser. Wish me luck! :( Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Gigi (Guest Post) (10/15/2007) I purchased an antique wooden game board from a local thrift shop who priced it using a permanent marker right on the wood! (What were they thinking?) Anyway, I was concerned about removing the lovely antique patina on the board...but the magic eraser removed only the marker (and a little dirt) leaving all of the patina! Yay! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Bret (Guest Post) (09/30/2007) Thank you Jesus! My 6 year-old just put major black permanent marks all over my wife's prized oak table...AHHHHH! Anyway, I jumped on this board and went to Target immediately. I purchased OFF, Lysol & the MR. Clean Magic Erasers. Mr. Magic is a miracle worker. That eraser pad removed all the marker in about 45 seconds. My wife is still up in bed, and I still get to live in this house another day! Thank you everyone! I never even got to the other two suggestions, but will keep them handy for future events. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By (Guest Post) (09/28/2007) The Off worked! Whoever posted that tip ROCKS! Thank you bunches Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Paige Degnan (Guest Post) (09/26/2007) Use Lysol to get dye, Permanent Marker, and other stains out of wood. Now, make sure your furniture is actually real wood or it will spread and it has to have a finish on it! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Sandy (Guest Post) (09/22/2007) My 5 year old son got a hold of a permanent marker. Wrote on my wood computer desk with it. I got a couple of paper towels and sprayed Off on it. Rubbed it on the desk and wiped off very easily. Thanks for the tip! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By not so smart 14 year old (Guest Post) (09/20/2007) i was writing a note with a sharpie and i was in a rush so i didn't think about it bleeding through onto my moms wooden dresser and i had green sharpie all over the place. luckily i found this topic and i used the eraser method. first i rubbed as hard as i could and i noticed that there were streaks left where i had rubbed, so i used a wet paper towel and it worked to get the streaks off. Thanks for the topic Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Angie (Guest Post) (09/17/2007) Rubbing alcohol worked great. I put just a little bit on a dry cloth and it rubbed black permanent marker off our desk. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By judy (Guest Post) (09/17/2007) you just use a good eraser like paper mate or stedler, on the wood desk or table and erase after a while of erasing it will start to disappeared. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By JODI (Guest Post) (09/02/2007) Off worked great on our wooden desk! The black sharpie marker came right off! Yeah! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Lisa (Guest Post) (08/25/2007) My daughter was drawing with a Sharpie marker and it "bled" onto our oak dining room table. I tried the Magic Eraser and it came right off! I applied furniture polish and the shine came right back! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By RIck (Guest Post) (08/21/2007) Off works great. Be careful because it will dull the furnisher. Just put a little on a rag and rub only the marker spot. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By mommyof2 (Guest Post) (08/21/2007) Thank you so much for the information. My 2 1/2 old daughter got a hold of a blue sharpie. Wrote all over the computer screen,buttons, computer , mouse and the wooden desk. Im so glad my boyfriend had the magic eraser. It worked great on getting it off. I would have got in trouble cause it is her grandpa's new computer and desk. THANKS ALOT WHO EVER POSTED IT>. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By sharie (Guest Post) (08/08/2007) NAIL POLISH REMOVER! works like a charm on wood floors! just spray a little pledge after to get the shine back. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Jen (Guest Post) (08/01/2007) Just go get a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser...it was extremely gentle, non-abrasive and removed sharpie marker on both my hardwood kitchen table (which had been there for a looooooong time) as well as a beautiful 50yr plus cherry end table. You obviously have to follow the directions on the magic eraser (ie, wet it and then rub) but it took absolutely NO elbow grease on my part. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By amber (Guest Post) (07/30/2007) i was writing with a black sharpie and went straight off the paper and onto my wood dining table. i was so sad! however, i tried some aerosol hairspray and it took it right off! thanks for the help! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By ben and tom (Guest Post) (07/29/2007) we got cdr pen on a polished wooden kitchen table and it came straight off with deodorant and a regular eraser Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Helen (Guest Post) (07/28/2007) Thank you Thank you Thank you. I'm a foster carer and have a door that over the years I have measured the children that have lived here and wrote their names and heights and the date in permanent marker. My latest foster children, very angry at being taken into care (not to mention the locked door preventing them from running away) took the permanent marker and wrote across the door that I'm a bi***. Luckily they didn't write across the writing they just wrote in the gaps. Reading through this the only thing I had in the house was hairspray so I tried it and it came straight off. I'm so happy the door with all my children from over the years on has been saved. Thank you. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By needs help (Guest Post) (07/25/2007) My cousin scribbled all over one of my wood desks. I tried the alcohol but only worked a little. Nothin seems to work. PS: Are the magic erasers the mr.clean one or regular erasers Editor's Note: I think that people have used both the Magic Erasers and the regular ones. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Mary (Guest Post) (07/13/2007) THANK YOU so much for the idea of using Off to remove perm. marker! My 2 year old grabbed a purple sharpie out of the drawer of my computer desk and before I knew it scribbled on the wood surface. The off (which I sprayed on a paper towel and rubbed lightly) took it right off and left he finish perfect. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By rob (Guest Post) (07/05/2007) My 5 year old will survive the Magic Eraser worked and did not mess up the finish of the table. It then went on to clean the handles of my fridge and oven that i have been try to get white again for years! before trying to get the stain out of the table, i did try it in a spot just in case of ths finish. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Rob (Guest Post) (07/03/2007) This Magic Eraser better work, my 5 year old just drew on my table that i had for 3 days!!! Report Spam or Abuse RE: hairspray worked great! Post By J.M. (Guest Post) (06/26/2007) Whoever said use hairspray when they were out of alcohol is brilliant! I would never have thought of that but, it worked super! Thanks. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By A Happy Person (Guest Post) (06/16/2007) My mother recently bought some wood chairs at a yard sale. Unfortunatly on the back of one of them it said "75.00 each" in permanent marker (not what we paid). After reading the rubbing an eraser on it removes it trick, I figured I'd try it. She didn't think it would work. But it did. Thanks for the tip. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By "D" (Guest Post) (06/11/2007) Okay, the Magic Eraser really worked! I couldn't believe it! We have hard wood on the wedges of our couch and a blue sharpie marker bled right through some paper and onto the wood. I tried a couple of different things to try and get it off, but nothing worked except the Magic Eraser!!! Thanks for the tip! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Nicole (Guest Post) (06/10/2007) Thank you so much for the magic eraser tip. My 2 yr.old wrote all over our computer desk with a blue permanent marker. It came right off with the magic eraser and looks new again. Whew! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Ben (Guest Post) (06/10/2007) I used a combination of baking soda and alcohol. The baking soda provides friction. This method requires elbow grease, but will remove sharpie from a wood desk Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post by Kathy H (1) | (05/21/2007) Profile | Contact Help ! I tried magic reaser on my coffee table stained with black sharpie. It didn't do anything, I am afraid to rub to hard. How long do you need to rub ? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By kiwi (Guest Post) (05/05/2007) I just inherited a beautiful old Eastlake dresser, and it had black sharpie marker on several places on the top - it could have been there many years. Thanks to your recommendations, I used magic eraser, and it came off without any difficulty, nor did it leave any residue or "rubbed spot". Thanks for the great tip! Report Spam or Abuse Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By afzu (Guest Post) (05/04/2007) Can anybody tell me how do I clean the stains of permanent marker on my door. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By haleski (Guest Post) (04/21/2007) HAIL MAGIC ERASER. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By JC (Guest Post) (04/18/2007) My 4yo wrote on my wooden desk with a black sharpie. I used the magic eraser and it came off immediatly. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Natalie (Guest Post) (04/16/2007) I read the comments after my 2 year old took blue sharpie to our wood chair. I didn't have rubbing alcohol, but I did have a magic eraser- it came right off! Thanks everyone. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Tiana (Guest Post) (04/12/2007) thanks SOOOO much! i wrote with RED sharpie and it leaked through the paper onto my moms WHITE WOODEN DESK! i just used a little rubbing alchohal and it came RIGHT off! thanks A LOT! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By swathi (Guest Post) (04/09/2007) Alcohol swabs worked like a charm on the wooden table.... Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Frustrated (Guest Post) (04/09/2007) My daughter used a sharpie on my cherry wood desk. I tried rubbing alcohol and it didn't work. I then tried mineral spirits, it didn't work. I then tried nail polish remover which worked but stripped the top finish and left a residue. Then I used the magic eraser to get rid of the residue, which worked. It looks better than before, but I need to repolish the top part which won't be hard. But after reading all the comments, I thought it would be easier than my experience. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Becky (Guest Post) (04/08/2007) Off is fantastic for this. My 6 year old daughter used permanent marker on our mahogany table. If it weren't for the Off trick, I would have sent the child off to military school just for spite. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Chad (Guest Post) (03/28/2007) Used alcohol lightly. took off sharpie marks from my 2 year old off a table and the top of a laptop. thanks. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By robyn (Guest Post) (03/27/2007) try mineral spirits. can get it at lowes or homedepot. works like a charm! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker my guitar Post By michael (Guest Post) (03/10/2007) i wrote on my guitar with sharpie a while ago and it came off, i did it again but now it wont come off, what would i do, e-mail me at aeroralston09 AT aol.com Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Permanent Marker from Wood Furniture Post By Anita Chapple (Guest Post) (03/03/2007) My brother was drawing with permanent marker and it leaked through the paper. I took a regular eraser and rubbed it out like pencil marks. Then I put pledge on top. Report Spam or Abuse