Review: Some Useful Tips
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2013
I read a lot of cleaning and organizing books because they seem to motivate me to get busy and get my house in order. I actually like cleaning and get satisfaction from having a well organized house. I feel that if you get one good tip from a book it was worth the money. This book is worth buying for one simple cleaning trick that uses cream of tartar to clean chrome. I won't give the total secret but I just want to say it works very well. I tried it today and was impressed.Now this book says you will clean in half the time it normally takes you to clean. However I found the instructions for cleaning each room to be very detailed. To do the type of cleaning this book recommends is going to take some time initially. So basically you do a deep cleaning first and then do a maintenance cleaning thereafter.One thing I'd like to point out is that if you have pets, especially cats, you won't want to spray counters and sinks and leave them to soak because cats are curious and might get into the cleaners. If you can put your pets in a safe place while you clean various rooms or shut the door say on the bathrooms the some tips might work.The author of this book also seems to think that a bucket is not that great of an idea but I must say it makes cleaning floors much easier. I don't like to be down on my hands and knees cleaning a floor by hand so a bucket and mop are much easier to deal with.There is also a lot of talk about cleaning pots and pans. To save even more time you might just want to get a bunch of nonstick pans and be done with all the scrubbing once and for all.I did find a lot of the tips helpful and there is a tip on how to get crayon off walls that I feel will be useful to many parents.As someone who used to clean a lot of houses for a living I must say that this book is correct in the methods they say to use to clean each room. These methods worked for me for years and I can recommend them. I not only did deep cleaning but I did organizing too. Still this book taught me some new things so I'm glad I read it.~The Rebecca Review