Clean Room?!?!?
Question:Hello, my room is a DISASTER! I am not joking, being sarcastic, or ANYTHING! It really does look like a tornado came in. But it's almost 11:00 PM, I am a night owl and usually stay up until 2:00 AM. Point is, I can't clean it tomorrow because we'll be gone all day, so do any of you have any ideas how to get my clean really fast, but i also need to organize it cause sometimes I can be a clean freak. So I need to do this at the most 2 hours, but I always stop and look at some stuff in my room, or read stuff I find, but I need to get right down to buisness. So do any of ya'll have any websites or tips or anything to help me? Thanks.
Answers:
Cleaning Your Room! Fast and Easy
Cleaning a room (your room) really isn't as hard as you may think or believe.
Just follow these easy steps to completely clean your room.
Step one: The bed
Step two: The Laundry
Step three: The nightstand
Step four: Random stuff
Step five: Dressers and closets
Step six: Bookshelves
Step seven: computer desks
Step eight: The floor
Step One: The Bed
Making the bed makes a room look good fairly quickly.
1-Remove stuff from bed, and wash if necessary.
2-Replace and tuck in sheets.
3-Place warming blanket (down or otherwise (unless its summer out)).
4-Place the decorative blanket.
Step Two: Laundry
1-Retrieve laundry from around the room
2-Sort in light, dark, colored, and towels/rag piles
3-Send a load down to laundry, and place the rest of the piles on the bed
Step Three: The nightstand
1-Remove items from nightstand, and sort
2-Clean glass/top of stand, and apply a wood-oil if necessary
3-Place sorted items in respectable places, and throw away garbage
Step Four: Random junk
Move random junk to their respective places, and vacuum where they used to be if your going to place them in their original places.
Step Five: Dressers and Tabletops
1-Remove and sort items from dresser/table tops
2-Wipe down dresser/table
3-Replace sorted items, and remove garbage
Step Six: The Bookshelf
Remove stuff from bookshelf, discard garbage, and sort items into different piles, the ones shown here are:
1-wires/electronics
2-tools/knives
Step Seven: The Computer Desk
1-Stash headphones, cameras, and other portable electronics
2-Remove garbage and dishes
3-Clean surface of desk
Step Eight: The Floor
1-Remove garbage, and sweep floor with a magnet for BBs, and look for nonmagnetic objects
2-Vacuum the floor, starting with rugs, which you should roll up and store on the bed while vacuuming the floor
3-Vacuum the floor, and replace the rugs
4-Use the extension tool for your vacuum to get around edges
Step Nine: Relax!
1-Put all the tools you've used to clean your room in their respective places, and go downstairs and get a Coke!
2-Look at your beautifully clean room!
3-magazines
4-school stuff
5-hardback books
6-paperback books
7-product boxes
8-stray CDs
9-Jewel cases
10-pens/pencils
11-packages
Lots of ideas for organization at www.hgtv.com but my favorite cleaning site is from the show "How Clean is Your House?"
These two women are my heroes and I absolutely adore their show. Not for the faint of heart as they attack some of the grimiest, most disgusting homes I've ever seen. But lots of tips on home cleaning remedies, etc and a few organization ideas.
Good luck!
I do this for my entire apartment -- I let it go all week and then on Sunday, clean like crazy. The hardest part is getting started -- I just start at one end and work my way through it, resisting ALL temptation to stop and "play". You just have to keep thinking "when I get this done, I can play". It usually takes about 3 hours to get it all done, but I'm cleaning every room. You only have 1, so it should be a lot quicker.
Get three laundry baskets (or trash bags or whatever). One is for garbage, one is for things that need to be relocated to other parts of the house, one is for things to give away. Start in one corner of the room, and sort. Decide with each item-is this loved or earning it's keep? If you don't love it or it's not useful to you, either throw away or give away bag is where it goes. Work around the room clockwise (to the right), and only work for about 20 minutes at a time, then give yourself a five minute (and only five minute) break to look at stuff, read, whatever, then 20 more minutes. Unless your room is the size of an airplane hanger, this should work in the time you have. Good luck.
You know there's a great lesson to be learned from your dilemna. You can ask how to do it, collect the information from those who respond, categorize their responses in terms ranging from the fastest way to the slowest way, then pick five of those top answers and submitt them to an advisory board where they can then in turn advise you on the most efficient way to do it, down to the least efficient way to do it, ooops running out of time,.....or you can get off your lazy butt and do it yourself and stop asking lame questions that only delay the work you need to do. Hows that?
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