How To: Clean the Bedroom in 10 Minutes

The web has how-to instructions for everything...even things you didn't know required directions. Most people know how to clean a bedroom, but to learn the secret to cleaning it in 10 minutes, we turned to WikiHow:

WikiHow's tips for cleaning the bedroom in under 10 minutes:

• Get your cleaning supplies together: garbage bag, surface cleaner, broom, dustpan, etc.
• Give yourself a set amount of time for each task. For example, 1-2 minutes per step.
• Pick up anything that's not in its proper place.
• Gather all of the misplaced items on the top of your dresser or on your bed.
• Pick up each item and put it where it belongs.
• If there's no specific place for an item, put it in a separate pile.
• Make your bed, dust the furniture surfaces, and sweep or vacuum.
• Find a spot for each of the items in your misplaced pile.

If you want to be more thorough, give yourself 20 or 30 minutes, but try not to get stuck on any one step. Keep moving and you'll be finished faster.

Image via Living Etc.

Comments (21)

huh? this was worth posting? Great picture tho! :)

posted by E.M.H on February 5th 2008 at 8:51am
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lovely bedroom! However, I certainly hope that people already know how to clean.

posted by twenty twenty-one on February 5th 2008 at 8:54am
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Alternative - everything in a laundry basket, basket in the tub, curtain drawn, skip the vacuuming, make the bed. Time for guests!

posted by cakekick on February 5th 2008 at 8:58am
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Even better alternative: keep the door closed.

posted by SFGail on February 5th 2008 at 9:01am
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This presupposes the bedroom is in reasonably good condition to begin with.

Head/desk, head/desk. I have to get to work on decluttering.

posted by Aldyth on February 5th 2008 at 9:08am
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Or, like my parents taught me from a very young age, once you're done with it, put it back. Because guests in 10 minutes? Who cares, the place already looks put together.

Channeling my mom, "Where do dirty clothes go? In the dirty clothes hamper; which is not the floor nor the chair."

posted by gretchen on February 5th 2008 at 9:10am
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pick up dust bunnies with your socks! Feet are great dusters

posted by revolution9 on February 5th 2008 at 9:12am
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I love that little table. Any guesses on where it's from?

posted by Pixie on February 5th 2008 at 9:18am
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My cat once got into my ventilation system and fell through the duct system into the furnace (thankfully it was summer and the furnace was off). It occurred to me later that I could spray her with Endust or Pledge and clean out my duct work.

posted by kimg924 on February 5th 2008 at 9:52am
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That bedroom is perfect.

posted by trygve on February 5th 2008 at 10:26am
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kimg924...LOL

posted by IdRatherBeDesigning on February 5th 2008 at 10:26am
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"This presupposes the bedroom is in reasonably good condition to begin with."

Which is generally not saying much. If any room is kept in reasonably good condition it's easy to tidy it up with these steps or your own. The hard part is making sure each room is in that condition, and that can take hours or days! In my experience all the music in the world doesn't make a difference.

posted by buffalogirl on February 5th 2008 at 10:26am
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kimg924 That is an image that will stay with me for a long time. Maybe you could even rent her out and call her "Kitty Kleaner".

posted by SFGail on February 5th 2008 at 10:41am
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Wow I love that chair. Can anyone source it?

posted by duckumu on February 5th 2008 at 10:46am
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I love that gray!

posted by Laura on February 5th 2008 at 11:03am
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Ditto on the gray. First person who sources that wall color (or something insanely close) gets a cookie.

posted by freneticfloetry on February 5th 2008 at 11:11am
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duckumu

According to Living ect "Elsie armchair, designed by Russell Pinch for SCP"

http://www.scp.co.uk/

They don't mention the paint though :(

posted by buffalogirl on February 5th 2008 at 11:16am
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Thanks, GR. Gorgeous chair. Too bad it costs two month's rent.

posted by duckumu on February 5th 2008 at 11:23am
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Looooving that gray, no idea what it is though.

posted by jennyy on February 5th 2008 at 11:40am
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I'm liking cement gray from Benjamin Moore, as seen in this bedroom:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/jan-jumpstart-2008-east/east-10-robin-sams-bedroom-reboot-041451

I know it's not an exact match...

posted by ace on February 6th 2008 at 12:20pm
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Hey, read all those comments from the perfect housekeepers! Some of us are just not made that way and welcome every hint we can (discreetly) get. We don't like to advertise our housekeeping deficiencies, we just work hard at trying to keep a semblance of order.

posted by Battling Betty on January 5th 2009 at 10:38pm
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