Jeff Campbell - Speed Cleaning

MAYBE YOU THINK YOU KNOW HOW TO CLEAN: IF SO, YOU CAN [STILL] PICK UP A FEW TIPS AND LEARN HOW TO WORK A LOT FASTER.

The Village Voice

THE MOST WORTHWHILE BOOK IVE READ SINCE THE JOY OF SEX.

L.G., Pepper Pike, Ohio

Week 1 took me just over two hours. Week 2 took about an hour and 15 minutes. Week 3 took 56 minutes. Week 4 took 46 minutes. Im sold.

Michele Fagin, Vermont

YOU MAY HAVE SAVED MY LIFE!

K.B.E., Minneapolis, Minn.

Im an industrial engineer and I have always felt my cleaning technique was efficient until I read yours. It really is amazing.

B.M., Fairless Hills, Penn.

SPEED CLEANING TELLS TRADE SECRETS THAT WILL HELP ANYONE WORK FASTER AND MORE EFFICIENTLY.

Richmond Times-Dispatch

MY HUSBAND CANT BELIEVE I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT CLEANING HOUSE.

S.B., Fort Worth, Texas

CAMPBELL OFFERS MUCH EDUCATION IN THIS BOOK.

Rocky Mountain News

The first believable housecleaning book I have ever seen.

M.V.B., Loma Linda, Calif.

I THOUGHT IT WAS TERRIFIC! MY HUSBAND AND I BOTH WORK FULL TIMEI STAND BEHIND THE CLEAN TEAM SYSTEM 100 PERCENT.

S. Brown, Illinois

I LOVE YOUR BOOK!!! I HAVENT BEEN THIS EXCITED IN YEARS AND CERTAINLY NEVER ABOUT CLEANING. I LOOK FORWARD TO CLEANING YOUR WAY. THANKS!

L. Sorg., Alexandria, Va.

I HAVE NEVER READ SUCH AN ENLIGHTENING BOOK ON A SUBJECT THAT HAS MYSTIFIED MILLIONS OF WOMEN [AND MEN] SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME. BLESS YOU.

B. McG., Madison, Wis.

To my friends and partners at The Clean Team. Before them I mistakenly thought that work wasnt any fun. Thanks to them I look forward to weekdays also.

SPEED CLEANING was first published in 1987. More than ten years later, and just like the well-known batteries, its still going strong.

Ive been told that a books average shelf life is only three weeks or so. That means SPEED CLEANING has endured approximately 173 times longer than average. Why? I believe its because it makes such good sense in todays busy world. It will teach you how to do housecleaning in the very best way possible and in the most efficient way possible. And not by working harder. Just smarter! The result? You will reclaim that spare time that has vanished from your life.

SPEED CLEANING was and is the first comprehensive solution to the housecleaning chores that each of us copes with and must find time for virtually every week of our lives. SPEED CLEANING finally paid attention to the fact that almost no one in our culture is actually taught how to do this. We seem to assume that if you drop someone in the middle of a dirty house, she (or he) would instinctively know how to go about getting it clean: sort of a cleaning gene at work. However, for those of us who arrived without the magic gene, SPEED CLEANING provides the very first step-by-step set of instructions on housecleaning. Its a proven method that furnishes even the most profoundly cleaning impaired the wherewithal to clean in the smartest way possible.

SPEED CLEANING also takes very, very seriously the amount of time that housecleaning consumes and the limited amount of time in which we have to do it. Its about time someone respected all those hours you spend scrubbing, dusting, and vacuuming. Whatever housecleaning skills most of us have were handed down by our mothers or grandmothers, who were able to do the work on a full-time basis. Given how our society has changednow that so many women in America are working, commuting, and keeping housethose full-time cleaning methods no longer work. Full-time techniques wont fit into a weekend. Besides, not many of us look forward to spending precious weekends cleaning house. Its like going from one job to another.

SPEED CLEANING teaches new skills. Learning how to clean (or do anything else) the very best possible way can change how you feel about the activity. As you get better and better at a task, you move closer to the cutting edge of your attention. (Just watch a kid play a computer game.) As you get closer to that edge, its nearly impossible to dislike what youre doing. When you learn how to shave off unnecessary steps, motions, and repetitions, youll move closer and closer to full attention. Youll become a pure cleaning machinea Ninja warrior of cleaning, if you wish.

If you already enjoy cleaning, the payoff is that youll have a thoroughly clean house in as short a period of time as possible. It you dont enjoy cleaning, thats still not a problem. Youll get the same clean house, the same extra time for other activities, and youll dislike it less.

I used to work for the telephone company. My work efforts were forwarded to various departments in paper form, and several weeks or months later a phone system would be installedan event I might not even know about unless something went wrong. At its very best, I had precious little feedback for my efforts. By contrast, housecleaning offers a much more direct payoff. First the house was dirty and now its clean, and whoever did it gets all the credit. Most of us dont stop to gloat over every item that gets cleaned, but each new bit of cleanliness provides a dose of straightforward positive feedbackthe kind thats becoming increasingly rare.