How to Cheat at Cleaning: Time-Slashing Techniques to Cut Corners and Rest

by Jeff Bredenberg

Book Overview

Change the way you think about cleaning, and the amount of time you devote to this arduous task In How to Cheat at Cleaning , down-and-dirty author Jeff Bredenberg shows how you can get away with just... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561588709
• ISBN13: 9781561588701
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

"How To Cheat At Cleaning"

Just by chance, this book ended up on my coffee table, and every woman who has come within 5 feet of it has immediately picked it up! Surprised at now entertaining this book is to read, we have all enjoyed the short descriptions of how to solve cleaning problems. It's an entertaining and useful book.

Most Helpful!

This is a good book - many many helpful hints not just for quickness but to get the job done!!

Don't keep this a secret!

I bought one for myself and one for each of my 3 daughters. Everyone loves it. Wonderful ways to clean in the kitchen without having chemicals where you cook your food. Great hints for the whole house--saves hours of cleaning time.

My wife loves the book!

I bought my wife this book hoping that she would take the dust-mite "don't make the bed" hint to heart. That didn't happen, but it's still a practical and, at times, oddly effective approach to household management. She has taken many of it's recommendations to heart and so have I.

Finally! A Cleaning Book that Makes Sense!

Do you feel like housework is just all too much? Are you still trying, in vain, to clean the house like your mother did, even though you have two kids, a career, and a home all at once? Or are you just sick of trying to keep up with everybody's mess? Then look no further, this is the book for you. How to Cheat At Cleaning is Jeff Bredenberg's new book for the rest of us who don't have designer pails full of aesthetically-pleasing homey-looking mail-order cleaning supplies that all smell of lavender. This is the practical person's how-to that not only shows you how to clean faster and easier, but eases up a lot of guilt you feel at not getting the house as clean as mom did. For instance, he gives you a 7 minute cleaning routine for the bathroom that really works. He shows you what needs to be done and what can be dropped from your cleaning routine, such as laundering shower curtains. Just toss 'em, he says, and buy another. Its an easier, faster way of getting things done, extremely practical with a lot of cost-effectiveness thrown in to boot. I'd also like to add there is a LOT of useful tid-bits of information in easy-to-read asides on all sorts of house-reated subjects, my favorite being a microbiologist's standpoint on the five-second rule and useful facts like the middle stalls in the public restrooms have the least germs. He also addresses the need to put your spouse and family to work to help you acheive your housecleaning goals in a nag-free approach. This information itself is worth the price of the purchase book alone--I mean, why should you be cleaning the house by yourself? Get that family to cleaning too, by making it easier, faster by using the cheats outlined in this book. (The easier it is for them to clean, the less you have to nag). The book lives up to its title and is a sure safe bet for you if you really want a clean house, but don't have a great deal of time or even if you just hate cleaning house. It's guilt-free housekeeping--a little cheating goes a long way.