How to Clean Your Room the Easy, Fast and Fun Way

Last Updated: December 23, 2021

Ready to impress your guests and friends with your beautiful room? Follow these fast, easy steps to clean your room in no time!

Part 1

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Pumping up the volume

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Put on a good, energetic CD, MP3 player, or your iPad music. Play a song from a favorite artist. Whatever you choose, it must be music you feel energized by and that helps you to move quickly. Music is always helpful while doing something like homework, or cleaning your room.^{[1]
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Part 2

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Piling the mess

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Put all the things that make your room a mess onto the floor. Be sure to pull out all of the junk from underneath your bed and in your closet.^{[2]
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Divide the mess into separate piles of trash, clothes, and toys or other belongings. You can also have an "undecided" pile for possible donations or trash (but not sure).^{[3]
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Clean up the trash pile first. Throw out all garbage, things that you will never use again, and rotten food. You may need to make another pile for things that you will give away or donate.^{[4]
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Part 3

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Tidying the rest of the room

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Make your bed to give yourself a nice laundry folding space.
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Separate your clean clothes from your dirty clothes. Put the clean clothes onto the bed and the dirty clothes into a hamper or laundry basket. To save on laundry time, put away things that you only tried on briefly. Smell it if you aren't sure.^{[5]
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Now, you only have toys and other belongings on the floor. Briskly straighten that stuff up by putting things in their appropriate places on shelves, in drawers, or boxes in the closet.
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Finally, fold up all the clean clothes on your bed and (neatly) put them away in your dresser. Hang all closet items neatly in the closet.
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Move furniture as necessary to facilitate vacuuming, sweeping or mopping.
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Next, tidy up all your dresser, shelf, and countertops by arranging objects, wiping away dust, and putting stray objects away.

Part 4

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Optional, for the ultimate clean

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Finally, you can clean your windows, if you're still motivated. Or perhaps you can even use furniture polish and a clean, soft cloth to wipe down your wood furniture (if you have any).^{[6]
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Community Q&A

Question

What do I do if I don't want to clean my room?

Community Answer

Motivate yourself by listening to your favorite music, setting a timer to clean for just ten minutes at a time and thinking about how you will enjoy your clean, organized space.
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How do I keep my room clean after I have already cleaned it?

Community Answer

Keep on top of things and give a quick refresher every day, depending on how much it is needed. Daily small cleaning will take care of most things and ensure that you don't need to do really long, involved cleaning later.
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How can I make cleaning my room fun?

Community Answer

Listen to your favorite music, challenge yourself to clean as fast as possible and give yourself a reward to look forward to when you are finished cleaning.
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How do I clean my dresser?

Community Answer

Organize sections by type of clothing, accessories and knick-knacks. Usually, use underclothing on the top shelf, t-shirts on the second, and so on. You can do it any way you want, as long as it is organized.
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How do you clean your desk?

Community Answer

Put all your pencils/pens into a holder or pencil case. Put books/paper stuff into a neat pile and sort out from there and put it away tidily. Then sort out your drawers (if you have any). Last of all, put some stuff on your desk like a pencil case, homework, computer, a notebook, etc.
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How can I clean my messy room in ten minutes?

Community Answer

Prioritize what has to be cleaned first. Listening to songs to boost your energy and keep yourself active.
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How do I sort the closet?

Community Answer

Pair and line up your shoes on the floor of the closet, ensure all the clothes are on hangers and arrange by type, and keep the shelves neat and clutter-free.
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What if I have too many things and I can't fit them anywhere?

Community Answer

Try re-organizing the items you already have put away to make room for everything else. You can also get some storage boxes, containers, or extra shelves.
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Approximately how long does it take to clean your room?

Community Answer

It depends on how big the room is and how dirty it is. It could take anywhere from a quick pick-up that may last ten minutes to a full fledged cleaning that may take a couple of hours.
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How can I clean a lot of clothing off the floor in 5 minutes?

Community Answer

Push the clothing to the destination or pile it up and transfer pile by tipping basket sideways and pushing it in. Take it all to the laundry and wash everything. When it's fresh and clean, sort it into keep, donate and discard piles, then put away the keeps and donate and toss the rest.

Warnings

If you are at a young age(or any age really) with parents who rely on you to clean your room, do NOT use the "under the bed method" because it ends up very noticeable, suspicious, and just bad.