Tips & Tricks: Removing Permanent Marker

We come bearing a trick of how to remove permanent marker from nonporous surfaces!  Believe it or not, this is a trick that Brian has had up his sleeve for years and only just recently introduced to me!

What you'll need is the nonporous item that has permanent marker on it, a dry erase marker and a cloth to wipe away the dry erase marker.  It literally is that simple!

Dry erase marker...

...item with permanent marker.

First, take the item with the permanent marker and scribble over the permanent marker with the dry erase marker:

Permanent marker has been scribbled over.

Then, take your cloth and wipe away the dry erase marker.  Like magic, your permanent marker will disappear!

What?!  Where?!  How?!

Folks, we weren't even trying to get Kate's name of the bottom of this tin.  Brian told me about this technique that he had learned when he and some coworkers accidently wrote on a dry erase board with permanent marker and I was so intrigued that I had to try it!  It worked like a charm!

We used this same technique again on a plastic cup and there is no more permanent marker!

I make a point to use the word nonporous because I have not tried this on porous surfaces, such as wood or fabric, and am pretty certain that it will not work the same.  If you find otherwise, please enlighten me!

Now, go work some magic!