Product Description

NOW UPDATED WITH MORE EASY, TIME-SAVING TIPS FOR TURNING YOUR HOME INTO A SPARKLING PALACE!

The down-to-earth housekeeping guide that brought the Queen of Clean® into your home is now better than ever! As always, her marvelous collection of tips and shortcuts gives you the keys to conquering dust, rust, stains, gum, clogs, odor, mildew, smudges, scratches, allergens, pet problems, and water damage. And she works her magic with the hidden cleansing powers of natural, inexpensive ingredients such as baking soda, lemon juice, petroleum jelly, tea, vinegar and more. Now, the Queen expands her domain with:

More penny-saving tips...

Thrifty hints for frugal living.

Waste not...

Don't trash it! The Queen finds fun, creative uses for everyday products.

An ounce of prevention...

Foil common household problems?before they begin.

The Queen's favorite tales...

Happy endings to the most unusual and daunting cleaning challenges!

You'll also find handy sidebars, an updated index, and a revealing cleaning quiz to help you measure your status as a domestic diva.

Never be a slave to housework again!

Includes Helpful Hints From The Royal Guide To Spot And Stain Removal!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #145818 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From Amazon.com
Stand back, Heloise, here comes the Queen of Clean. Armed with both common sense and ingenuity, Linda Cobb made a name for herself on Morning, Arizona. For those of you who don't happen to live in Arizona, she has written this helpful little book. Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean tackles just about any household stain, stink, or accident you can think of.

"There are five cleaning products you should never be without," says the Queen, "and most of them are things you already have in your home." What are they? White vinegar, baking soda, lemon juice, club soda, and Spot Shot Instant Carpet Stain Remover (her favorite brand). With these simple items, you can clean and deodorize nearly every room in your home, thereby saving money on expensive store-bought cleaners and reducing the amounts of chemicals in your home. Did you burn a casserole? Fill the dish with hot water, one tablespoon of baking soda, and soak. Try cleaning brass and copper with half a lemon sprinkled with salt. It should shine right up (and smell good, too).

The chapters are short and sweet, and besides the usual home/pet/kid/upholstery cleaning techniques, the Queen also tackles patio furniture, the grill, electronic equipment, plants, and smoke and water damage. Did you know you can distract grasshoppers by planting basil around your flowerbeds? They'll eat that and leave your flowers alone. Here's our favorite tip: when painting or washing walls, wrap washcloths or old rags around your wrists and secure them with rubber bands. When you lift your arms, the paint or water drips will be absorbed instead of running all the way down your arms. Keep this book handy. --Dana Van Nest

From AudioFile
Cobb and her pesky cat, Zach, cheerfully dispense cleaning advice, with short breaks of jazz and classical music thrown in. In a squeaky-clean Midwestern accent Cobb narrates rapidly, justifying her warning at the beginning to take notes. Her humor about poor housekeeping (including jokes about dust bunnies doing a rodeo in the living room) keep the listener amused as she gives practical tips about every room of the house for every season of the year. Anyone who cleans (or needs to clean) will enjoy this peppy production. A.G.H. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About the Author
Linda Cobb first shared her cleaning tips with readers in a weekly newspaper column in Michigan, where she owned a cleaning and disaster-restoration business dealing with the aftermath of fires and floods. After moving to Phoenix, she appeared weekly as a guest on Good Morning Arizona; since then she has shared her housekeeping tips on radio and television shows across the country, and in two New York Times bestsellers, Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean® and Talking Dirty Laundry with the Queen of Clean®. She is also the author of a bestselling month-by-month cleaning guide, A Queen for All Seasons; The Royal Guide to Spot and Stain Removal, a handy, pocket-size laundry guide drawn from her previous bestsellers; and The Queen of Clean® Conquers Clutter, a collection of quick and easy organizing tips. Linda Cobb lives in Phoenix with her husband. Visit her popular website: www.queenofclean.com.

Customer Reviews

IT IS POSSIBLE TO MOTIVATE CHILDREN TO HELP CLEAN
Yes, it is possible to motivate even the laziest child (my own) to help with spring cleaning! We saw Linda Cobb on Oprah one day and then went out and bought her book. When we got home my 10 year old daughter wanted to purchase the cleaning supplies and get going. So, I struck while the iron was hot. For about ... I purchased all of the "staples" that Ms. Cobb recommended. Then my daughter went to work. She made a paste of baking soda, bleach and borax, wore rubber gloves and goggles and attacked the mold and mildew on the bathtub/shower tiles by gently brushing the paste on. We let it sit for one hour and rinsed it off with the shower. No scrubbing, no scraping the mold is gone! Next I made Linda's solution to clean screens, took the screens outside, applied it and hosed it off. Walla! You could see the dirt falling off almost by itself! This is the best, most affordable and efficient book on cleaning I have ever read. God Bless Linda Cobb!

Linda Cobb is help available for inveterate slobs like me
If you read this book, you will find a way to tailor it to your own cleaning needs, good points and lacks. She has helped me turn the corner on my 44 year old bad habits by helping me attack the dirt her way. It is much easier to have a sense of control over your mess if you have knowledge of how to clean and what to clean. Thank you very much!

Absolute Genius!
Linda Cobb is an absolute genius when it comes to cleaning, spot removal, helpful hints, etc. I haved tried several of her recommendations and have saved $$$ and a lot of valueable time!

I must tell everyone about one specific helpful hint that has completely changed the way I clean: "ACT NATURAL" the chemical free cleaning concept! I ordered these fantastic products from "euronetusa.com" as soon as I read about them and could not believe the results. I never thought it was possible to clean without chemicals (you just use water with these products!) but was able to get rid of nearly all of them! No more dangerous fumes around my family. It saves me money, time and energy and helps our environment...

Linda, you have really changed my life! Thank you...