Joey Green's Cleaning Magic: 2,336 Ingenious Cleanups Using Brand-Name Products [Paperback]

Joey Green (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 6, 2010

From the guru of discovering extraordinary uses for brand-name products come brand-new ways to
make cleaning, organizing, and decluttering quick, easy, and a lot more fun

The public is endlessly fascinated by quirky and offbeat uses for their favorite products and, this time around, Joey Green tackles household chores with his pantry full of cleaning power. Green’s easy and effortless tips and tricks show how to scrub, deodorize, shine, and remove stains with products already in the house.

While Green’s suggestions may sound implausible, they are, in fact, highly effective. Most products on the market today are a complex mix of lubricants, abrasives, and cleansers, giving these brand-name products plenty of power to clean, dissolve, and fix in the most unexpected ways.

 

Green offers clever ways to make household items do double duty, like using a slice of Wonder Bread to clean up tiny shards of glass from a kitchen floor—just pat it flat against the floor and toss it away—and wiping away the gunk from the bottom of an iron with Purell. This practical, useful, funny, and entertaining volume includes thousands of incredibly simple ways to clean up every room (and dusty corner) in the house.

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About the Author

JOEY GREEN has authored more than 30 books and frequently appears on national television. He lives in Los Angeles.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (July 6, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1605297453
• ISBN-13: 978-1605297453
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,307 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joey Green--author of "Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose," "Paint Your House with Powdered Milk," "Wash Your Hair with Whipped Cream," and "Clean Your Clothes with Cheez Whiz"--got Jay Leno to shave with peanut butter on "The Tonight Show," Rosie O'Donnell to mousse her hair with Jell-O on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," and Katie Couric to drop her diamond engagement ring in a glass of Efferdent on "Today." He has been seen polishing furniture with SPAM on "NBC Dateline," cleaning a toilet with Coca-Cola in "The New York Times," and washing his hair with Reddi-wip in "People."

A former contributing editor to "National Lampoon" and a former advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson, Green is the author of more than forty books, including "Sarah Palin's Secret Diary," "Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayings," and "The Zen of Oz: Ten Spiritual Lessons from Over the Rainbow." A native of Miami, Florida, and a graduate of Cornell University, he wrote television commercials for Burger King and Walt Disney World and won a Clio Award for a print ad he created for Eastman Kodak. He backpacked around the world for two years on his honeymoon and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Debbie, and their two daughters, Ashley and Julia.

You can visit him at www.joeygreen.com and www.wackyuses.com

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Info, Yet Too Much Emphasis on "Brand Name" Items, November 5, 2010

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Carmen (Madison Heights, MI, US) - See all my reviews

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I am very impressed with the amount of great cleaning tips in this book! I would have given 5 stars, but I honestly cannot understand why every item he says to use is a brand name product. Does it really matter if you use a "Conair 1875 Watt Hair Dryer" when removing a bumper sticker? Um, no I think not. And literally EVERY SINGLE tip names specific brands, which I guarantee 9 out of 10 times makes no difference what-so-ever. Who knows...Maybe he got a kickback from the companies he mentions. Regardless, great book I would definitely recommend to anyone who hates cleaning as I do.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What a stupid book..., January 15, 2011

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Hints like use a clothespin to keep frozen food bags shut, use a Magic Eraser to clean stuff.
The redundant tips in each category and brand names listed in every sentence was annoying.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Frugally Delighted, October 16, 2010

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I teach Consumerism to middle school students and they were fascinated with Cleaning Magic. They found great ways to save money and get things clean. They gave it an A+ after factoring the savings into their household monthly budget project.