One-minute Cleaner Plain and Simple: 500 Tips for Cleaning Smarter, Not Harder

Easy to read little book chock full of great tips. Not easily used as a reference or how-to but I marked tips that I knew that I would want to refer back to at a later date. It is a book that you will want to keep handy to go back to over and over.

I love the simple, straightforward, and to-the-point approach of the material in this book. The make-your-own recipes for different types of cleaners were the selling point for me. I think that this is a very useful reference book for the home. I highly recommend it for someone who means business about cleaning and organizing. By the way, I have the "One Minute Organizer", so the One-Minute Cleaner is the perfect companion to have. I am busy and have little time to devote to thorough cleaning and keeping the place organized; so this item was not a hard sell.

This book contained many helpful cleaning tips and was very easy to read. There is some great information here. There were quite a few "make it yourself" cleaning recipes, many of which I found helpful. Some sections went into greater detail than needed (like cleaning up after pets) for my preference. With the size of the book, I would have liked to have seen more tips related to challenges that we all face (bathrooms, kitchens, laundry, etc)rather than specific situations that aren't as common.

This book appeals to me because it is written in such a way that you can really get something accomplished. Smallin encourages "a clean house, one small task at a time." And, she is encouraging, because her attitude is that cleaning--for her anyway--is therapeutic,not torture (as I have previously thought). This change in attitude came, for me, from using the Flylady techniques, which also encourage housecleaning a bit at a time. Previously I would have thought that it would never work--there was way too much to do. But, broken down into little steps, housework is not that overwhelming. The author gives many different approaches to cleaning--seasonal, day by day, special occasion. It's like a smorgasbord of cleaning systems you can pick and choose from, according to what works for you. I liked this book and would recommend it to my daughters or anyone who wants a clean house but doesn't want to spend all day getting it. It seems to be, though, a condensed version of the author's other, larger book called "Cleaning Plain and Simple". If you want the shorter, compact version, get this one. If you want a more thorough book that goes into more depth of cleaning how-to's , then I'd recommend the other one. They are good in their own right, but you don't need to purchase both of them (as I did!), thinking this one was filled with ideas on how to clean something in one minute (I wish). It takes one minute or less to read the page and then it takes, well, whatever it takes you, to get the job done.