About How to Cheat at Cleaning

This is not your mother’s cleaning book. How to Cheat at Cleaning is packed with ingenious ways to do minimal housekeeping and still have a home you’re happy with. But that’s not all. It’s also a liberating lifestyle manifesto, destroying the myths, misconceptions, and guilt that pervade the typical housekeeping advice. Who’s got time to polish countertops, scrub the shower, or stand guard with the vacuum cleaner, waiting for a dust bunny to materialize? In this age of two-career couples, we have money to earn, dinner to get on the table, and Little League games to attend.

In How to Cheat at Cleaning, you’ll learn:

  1. How to clean your kitchen and bathroom in 7 minutes each.
  2. How to de-clutter even the worst desk in 5 minutes.
  3. 10 things you can quit cleaning right now.
  4. About self-cleaning cat boxes and odor-eating light bulbs.
  5. How to kill germs that lurk in surprising places.
  6. Why you should quit making the bed—doctor’s orders!
  7. The awful truth about the 5-Second Rule.
  8. Why spring cleaning is a bunch of hooey.
  9. How to quick-fold laundry.
  10. How to get other people—even your spouse!—to clean instead of you.

You’ll never find a housecleaning book that’s this fun to read, either. Read about the robotic vacuum cleaner that serves beer to guests, the guy who washed his socks in the dishwasher (don’t try this at home!), and the scientist who bought dirty underwear from his students. All told in a swingy, occasionally irreverent style that you will find in no other housecleaning book.

How to Cheat at Cleaning

Published January, 2007, by The Taunton Press (Order at Amazon)