Clean Your Clothes with Cheez Whiz: And Hundreds of Offbeat Uses for Dozens More Brand-Name Products

by Joey Green

Did you know that Baby Magic Baby Powder repels ants and Campbell's Tomato Soup prevents blond hair from turning green in a chlorinated swimming pool? Many of the foods and household items on the shelves of your kitchen and bathroom cabinets have properties and near-magical powers never indicated by what's printed on their labels. In Clean Your Clothes with Cheez Whiz, bestselling author Joey Green reveals hundreds of quirky uses for brand-name products. With dozens of items to choose from, you'll discover how -Clean a toilet bowl with Country Time Lemonade
-Relieve morning sickness with Gatorade
-Remove scruff marks from patent-leather shoes with Noxema
-Give yourself a facial with Cheerios
-Soothe sunburn pain with Cool Whip
-Relieve insect-bite itching with A.1 Steak Sauce
-Clean your clothes with Cheez Whiz (It's great for removing grease!) But it doesn't stop there. Clean Your Clothes with Cheez Whiz also presents short histories, strange facts, and other tidbits about your favorite products.

Genres: Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2000

About the author

Joey Green, a former contributing editor to National Lampoon and a former advertising copywriter at J. Walter Thompson, is the author of more than sixty (yes, sixty) books, including Not So Normal Norbert with James Patterson, Last-Minute Travel Secrets, Last-Minute Survival Secrets, Contrary to Popular Belief, Clean It! Fix It! Eat It!, the best-selling Joey Green's Magic Brands series, The Mad Scientist Handbook series, The Zen of Oz, and You Know You've Reached Middle Age If...—to name just a few.

Joey has appeared on dozens of national television shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Good Morning America, and The View. He has been profiled in the New York Times, People magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today, and he has been interviewed on hundreds of radio shows.

A native of Miami, Florida, and a graduate of Cornell University—where he was the political cartoonist on the Cornell Daily Sun and founded the campus humor magazine, the Cornell Lunatic (still publishing to this very day)—Joey lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

[James Hammer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book. I am using some tips when I need to clean something. Especially when it comes to clean white clothes. By the way, I have found the Clorox Bleach Pen that is effective against stains on white clothes. In any case, thanks for your read.

[Arthur Salyer · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit dated but kinda fun. All sorts of uses for common products...plus history of the product. My favorite was cool whip. The author recommends it for “improving marital relations”

[Grace · Rating 4 out of 5]

How to Clean Your Clothes with Cheez Whiz (or HTCYCWCW as I call it) is a fun little handbook that contains some unusual uses for those every day items you happen to have in your house. It provides you with a list of alternative uses, facts and history about the creation of the product and the company that owns it, and some quirky insights into the makeup of the product. This isn’t really a sit-down-and-read type of book, although that was how I approached it. It does have some really funny/interesting/cheeky ideas for how to use products. For example, you know how every time you eat pizza you burn that little spot on the roof of your mouth? Every. Single. Time. (Or perhaps I still morph into a little kid who can’t wait for it to cool down when I am around pizza.) Solution: Cool Whip! Yup. While reading this, my husband insisted that I immediately go buy some Cool Whip and order pizza so we could experiment. I also ran out to buy some baby powder to put down around our pup’s food bowl to deter ants and – it totally worked.

Overall, it is a fun, if completely unnecessary, read. I don’t really have any intentions of cleaning my clothes with Cheez Whiz in the foreseeable future, but if you are someone who just loves to know trivia or someone who rebels against the traditional (including your average laundry detergent), then this book is for you!

[Helga · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book was a bit pricy for what is offered, but if you've ever done battle with your laundry and lost, it'll be worth it.