3M Post-it® Notes: Strange But True

Family Finds

Hurricane Hugo Was No Match for the Post-it® Note

Post-it® Note Travels By Air A couple in South Carolina stuck a Post-it® Note to their door in 1989 when they had a new baby in the house. The note, which read "Baby Sleeping," was intended to keep people from ringing the doorbell during nap time. After using the note for several months, the family had to suddenly evacuate their home due to Hurricane Hugo. When they left, the note was stuck outside of the door. Funny thing was, when they returned home three days later, the note was still there — a little faded, but still hanging on. The 140-mile winds took down eight oak trees in the family's yard, but they couldn't take down the Post-it® Note!

Check Your Pockets

Or You Could Get Taken For a Cleaning

Post-it® Note ON Moving Truck When his wife neglected to check the pockets of his jacket before throwing it in the washing machine, this Post-it® Note fan was disappointed to find that a full pad of notes had just been put through the spin cycle. Being the thrifty sort, he allowed the pad to air-dry — only to find that the majority of the notes dried out and worked just fine.

It Took a Licking

And Kept on Sticking

Post-it® Note Stcuk At Sea When the floods of 1997 hit Grand Forks, North Dakota, families had to be evacuated from their homes as dikes failed to hold back the waters. As one man evacuated his family, he placed a Post-it® Note on his patio door to alert city workers that the house's natural gas had already been turned off. Returning to his home weeks later, the man found that his deck was in his neighbor's yard. Furniture inside the house had been recklessly rearranged by the receding waters. But the Post-it® Note? It remained exactly where he'd left it.

If this Guy Offers You

Leftovers, Ask to See the Documentation First

Post-it® Note Makes it through the MailWhen this 47-year-old bachelor from Albert Lea, Minn., cleaned out his freezer in September of 1999, he came across some meatloaf from New Year's Eve, 1997. How did he know? The Post-it® Note he'd stuck to the container was still attached! In fact, the note remained attached even after he removed the container from his dishwasher the next day. The message was a little faded, but the note was intact. And the adhesive worked just like it was supposed to.