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Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose: And Hundreds of Offbeat Uses for Brand-Name Products

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As a supermarket cashier for 10 years and shopper for even longer, this is the kind of book I wished I could have written. It is not only entertaining, but educational and brings new light and uses for those supermarket products we often take for granted. Yet, I could never have written this book, because I'm sure the research required, while probably fun, also took lots of time. "Polish Your Furniture With Pantyhose" isn't just for reading; it is for using in real life. I actually stripped off two rooms of wall paper using the book's suggestion of a solution of vinegar. I haven't though tried SPAM to polish my furniture, but did use WD-40 which worked well. (My house just smelled like a mechanics shop for a few hours.) Also a good idea was Mr. Green giving us some product information and other interesting tidbits of information about the products featured. Even if your only goal of supermarket shopping is to check-out as fast as you can, you won't be disappointed if you check-out this book. I'm definitely looking forward to his sequel.

While this book did have some cute tips, it fell short of expectations. The biggest issue is that there just wasn't that much that anyone actually does anymore among the tips. Having said that, there were a few little gems in there for coffee filters and for vinegar that were new to me.

Probably the more interesting aspect of this book is the history included. For each product, there is a little section that includes the year the product was first launched, how it came to get its name, product history, product ingredients, and strange facts. To find only 2-3 tips that are practical in today's world out of hundreds just isn't worth it, but I WOULD buy this book again for the fun little reading about each product.