The Bottom Line
Everyone can learn something useful from Linda Cobb's "Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean." Try giving this, with a basket of her 5 suggested household products and a spray bottle, as a gift. (You might also want to include a nice watch or jewelry item in the basket, just in case a practical gift isn't what your recipient had in mind!)
Pros
- Easy to read.
- Practical, easy to follow instructions.
- Linda Cobb has a light writing style, but doesn't try to be too cute.
Cons
- I found the blue ink a bit distracting.
Description
- The following items are things that I learned from reading "Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean":
- How to get indentations left by furniture out of the carpet.
- How to get streaks off glassware.
- How to remove rust from a knife.
- How to clean the outside of a grill.
- How to remove rust from the garage floor.
- How to make fresh flowers last longer.
Guide Review - Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean
I hate housework. To be honest, I do as little housecleaning as possible, contracting it out to a professional. But there are still things to be done, and household disasters--red wine stains, beagle spit-up, streaky glassware--that just can't wait until two weeks from Wednesday.
Linda Cobb's book, Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean, has been updated for 2004. The Queen of Clean provides easy-to-follow instructions for handling all kinds of common cleaning jobs, and some that are not so common. Have pets? Have kids? Have a floor? Then there are tips in this book for you. Linda Cobb covers dust, rust, stains, scratches, rotten odors and more.
It's pretty amazing that The Queen of Clean can handle a great majority of domestic dirt with 5 common products that are child and environmentally friendly. And cheap. No, I won't tell you what they are. You'll have to read the book....
