Clean Your Bedroom in Five Minutes or Less

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Five minutes is all you need to tidy up even the messiest bedroom, says Barbara Webster, president of Nice N Clean Maid Service in Miami. Here’s her five-step whirlwind formula. Got your running shoes on?

1. Make the bed: Pull up the cover and straighten the pillows.
2. Collect all the clothes that are flung about the room. Dirty stuff goes in the hamper. Clean clothes go in a “to be put away” basket or pile (an assignment for the owner of the bedroom).
3. Toss toys into toy bins or baskets.
4. Put books in a neat pile or on a shelf.
5. For a nice cosmetic touch, position the curtains so that each side is equally open. Either pull blinds up or leave them down but open.