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Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures: 1,150 Ways to Prevent and Cure Common Ailments with Brand-Name Products
Stop bleeding with Krazy Glue®?
That's amazing!
Find the cure for what ails you in the kitchen! And it's only one of the 1,150 astonishing ideas in Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures ! Discover more remedies that are hiding in your favorite household products as Joey reveals that you * Beat a backache with Adolph's Meat Tenderizer®!
* End insomnia with Aunt Jemima Original Syrup®!
* Cure a cold with Gold's Horse Radish®!
* Stop arthritis pain with Heinz Apple Cider Vinegar®!
* Get rid of headaches with Gatorade®!
* Prevent allergy attacks with Dannon Yogurt®!
* Arrest acne with Colgate Toothpaste®!
* Soothe aching feet with Alka-Seltzer®! The next time you're facing a late-night bout of sickness and can't reach a doctor-- get a cut, scrape, or bite-- or just want to save money-- reach for the brand-name products in Amazing Kitchen Cures instead of medications. You'll find that they're just as effective, and some are even better! * Stop sunburn with Cheerios®!
* Clean your teeth wuith McCormick® Food Coloring!
* Soothe a sore throat with Hershey's® Syrup!
* Calm allergies with Endust®!
That's amazing!
Find the cure for what ails you in the kitchen! And it's only one of the 1,150 astonishing ideas in Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures ! Discover more remedies that are hiding in your favorite household products as Joey reveals that you * Beat a backache with Adolph's Meat Tenderizer®!
* End insomnia with Aunt Jemima Original Syrup®!
* Cure a cold with Gold's Horse Radish®!
* Stop arthritis pain with Heinz Apple Cider Vinegar®!
* Get rid of headaches with Gatorade®!
* Prevent allergy attacks with Dannon Yogurt®!
* Arrest acne with Colgate Toothpaste®!
* Soothe aching feet with Alka-Seltzer®! The next time you're facing a late-night bout of sickness and can't reach a doctor-- get a cut, scrape, or bite-- or just want to save money-- reach for the brand-name products in Amazing Kitchen Cures instead of medications. You'll find that they're just as effective, and some are even better! * Stop sunburn with Cheerios®!
* Clean your teeth wuith McCormick® Food Coloring!
* Soothe a sore throat with Hershey's® Syrup!
* Calm allergies with Endust®!
384 pages, Paperback
Published October 25, 2002
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About the author
Joey Green
69 books32 followersJoey 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.
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.
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April 11, 2009
This was a neat book about using common household items to relieve, cure, aid in the prevention of other common ailments, enhancements, or bothersome "stuff" we run into in life. The chapters are in alphabetical order and include (I can't list them all; there are too many): acne, air fresheners, allergies, arthritis, asthma, athlete's foot, bad breath, bee and wasp stings, blisters, body odor, cholesterol, cough, dandruff, dry hair, earache, eczema, flatulence, fleas, hair coloring, hand cleanser, insect repellent, lice, marital relations, memory loss, menopause, menstruation, muscle pain, nosebleed, pet problems, poison ivy, shampoo, skunk odor, sore throat, stress, toothache, warts, yeast infections and much more.
Each chapter has common household alternative methods of treating what I bought individual products to treat. I had no idea that 409 and Windex also killed wasps and bees on contact. Mercy! Don't know whether I was relieved to know I didn't have to buy the toxic wasp killer anymore or concerned at the ingredients of 409 and Windex. At the end of each chapter are "Strange Facts" about the word or some relation (usually funny) as to the meaning.
Under "Air Fresheners" and "Strange Facts" it says:
"Before buying an air freshener in a grocery store, most shoppers pick a can off the shelf, remove the cap, and spray the air or their fingers, and breathe deep to test whether they like the fragrance. Air fresheners contain chemicals that no one in their right mind should be inhaling."
Yikes!
Some of the most common items used for a wide-variety of treatments are: bag balm, baking soda, dawn liquid soap, Alberto VO5 conditioning hairdressing, bounce (dryer sheets), and apple cider vinegar
Some suggested usages were in multiple chapters. I thought the book was well laid out and easy to read and use for a reference. A few recommendations had me raising my eyebrows, but while they may in fact help alleviate a particular ailment, they turned around and caused another. For instance, applying turtle wax to a tub and walls to make them shine. The ramifications of that turning into a slippery death trap aside...
Or to repel insects one of the suggestions was to soak in a clorox bath. Talk about drying out skin! There were other suggestions for this such as using a bounce dryer sheet which I thought was neat.
How to put red streaks in brown hair--naturally? Most of us know using lemon juice and sitting in the sun will put highlights in blond hair...Did you know you can use Dawn liquid soap in a mixture to kill fleas in your carpets? Or using a baby aspirin or Blistex Medicated Lip Balm to get rid of warts?
Each chapter has common household alternative methods of treating what I bought individual products to treat. I had no idea that 409 and Windex also killed wasps and bees on contact. Mercy! Don't know whether I was relieved to know I didn't have to buy the toxic wasp killer anymore or concerned at the ingredients of 409 and Windex. At the end of each chapter are "Strange Facts" about the word or some relation (usually funny) as to the meaning.
Under "Air Fresheners" and "Strange Facts" it says:
"Before buying an air freshener in a grocery store, most shoppers pick a can off the shelf, remove the cap, and spray the air or their fingers, and breathe deep to test whether they like the fragrance. Air fresheners contain chemicals that no one in their right mind should be inhaling."
Yikes!
Some of the most common items used for a wide-variety of treatments are: bag balm, baking soda, dawn liquid soap, Alberto VO5 conditioning hairdressing, bounce (dryer sheets), and apple cider vinegar
Some suggested usages were in multiple chapters. I thought the book was well laid out and easy to read and use for a reference. A few recommendations had me raising my eyebrows, but while they may in fact help alleviate a particular ailment, they turned around and caused another. For instance, applying turtle wax to a tub and walls to make them shine. The ramifications of that turning into a slippery death trap aside...
Or to repel insects one of the suggestions was to soak in a clorox bath. Talk about drying out skin! There were other suggestions for this such as using a bounce dryer sheet which I thought was neat.
How to put red streaks in brown hair--naturally? Most of us know using lemon juice and sitting in the sun will put highlights in blond hair...Did you know you can use Dawn liquid soap in a mixture to kill fleas in your carpets? Or using a baby aspirin or Blistex Medicated Lip Balm to get rid of warts?
May 7, 2023
My Mum & I Liked that there are good ways/ tips and advice and means to save money on everyday household usage.
May 18, 2025
Some of you might recall the name Joey Green. He's a life hack expert who has been helping people save money by using everyday household items in some very practical and often unusual ways. I seem to remember at some point he went to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and got Jay to smother peanut all over his iconic chin and use it as shaving cream.
Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures is a book in which Joey offers tips on how to cure and treat a variety of ailments using everyday ingredients like olive oil and black tea bags. Not all of his offered cures are edible. Like you can use WD-40 to help get a stuck ring off your finger or use panty hose, filled with oatmeal, as a soothing exfoliant if you have the chicken pox or shingles. Being from 2002, I'm not sure if all of the brand names Green recommends using are still in existence. Do they still make Star olive oil?
The book can borderline on the repetitive. Let's be honest; there's only so many ways that you can tell readers how to use a Ziploc bag filled with ice as an ice pack. To combat the redundancy, Green includes factoids in each chapter about the ailments covered within. Some chapters include articles on the history of some of the household name products recommended by the author. There's also tips about when to give up on the home remedies and seek professional medical treatment.
Not all of the suggestions seem practical or even safe. Green's chapter on sex has some ideas that border on risky. No way in the world am I ever going to use one of my credit cards as a toothpick! Even if I was to Purell and Clorox the heck out of it before hand... Google claims that some of Joey Green's suggestions are jokes. If that's true, I'm just not sure if some readers these days are able to weed out the hoaxes from tried and true cures.
I got this book at a consignment store. Good price. The shop had a couple other of Joey Green's books. Based on my experience with this read, I wouldn't mind a trip back to get them. Now that I understand the formula of his writing and know that not every suggestion is a serious one, I should have a better experience.
Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures is a book in which Joey offers tips on how to cure and treat a variety of ailments using everyday ingredients like olive oil and black tea bags. Not all of his offered cures are edible. Like you can use WD-40 to help get a stuck ring off your finger or use panty hose, filled with oatmeal, as a soothing exfoliant if you have the chicken pox or shingles. Being from 2002, I'm not sure if all of the brand names Green recommends using are still in existence. Do they still make Star olive oil?
The book can borderline on the repetitive. Let's be honest; there's only so many ways that you can tell readers how to use a Ziploc bag filled with ice as an ice pack. To combat the redundancy, Green includes factoids in each chapter about the ailments covered within. Some chapters include articles on the history of some of the household name products recommended by the author. There's also tips about when to give up on the home remedies and seek professional medical treatment.
Not all of the suggestions seem practical or even safe. Green's chapter on sex has some ideas that border on risky. No way in the world am I ever going to use one of my credit cards as a toothpick! Even if I was to Purell and Clorox the heck out of it before hand... Google claims that some of Joey Green's suggestions are jokes. If that's true, I'm just not sure if some readers these days are able to weed out the hoaxes from tried and true cures.
I got this book at a consignment store. Good price. The shop had a couple other of Joey Green's books. Based on my experience with this read, I wouldn't mind a trip back to get them. Now that I understand the formula of his writing and know that not every suggestion is a serious one, I should have a better experience.
July 21, 2018
I have used several of these cures over the last couple of years, and they work quite well!
March 27, 2014
I bought this at a Box Sale where I fill a Box with books for 30 dollars and there you have it.
This is one of those books I found fun and interesting while I have not really attempted the stuff in the books.
I guess I'm holding out for emergencies.
This is certainly one of those coffee table books.
This is one of those books I found fun and interesting while I have not really attempted the stuff in the books.
I guess I'm holding out for emergencies.
This is certainly one of those coffee table books.
May 22, 2012
I always enjoy Joey Green's books. They are full of interesting information about products we use every day.
April 6, 2014
Plenty of things to try. Lots of strange stories. More of an entertaining read than useful.
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