Q&A for How to Clean Your Room if You Are Lazy and Don't Want To

Do minor upkeep every day, like making your bed. Every 2-3 days, do a little more deep cleaning, like sweeping, vacuuming, or mopping. If you hire someone to clean your home, once every other week can be a good frequency.

Try cleaning your room every morning. That way, you don't have to do a lot of cleaning all in one day. Always throw out your garbage, make the bed every morning, and regularly bring dirty clothes down to the washer.

Separate your room into sections. Put the stuff on your bed one section at a time. Clear that section, then put the stuff from the next section on your bed and so on. Of course like the article said, you can also put your stuff underneath it or in other places in your house.

Find the source and remove it from the house. Afterward, you'll want to air out the room. Start off with opening a window & putting a fan facing outwards in the window. Spray some cologne/perfume around, or Febreeze.

Break the cleaning up into smaller steps and see how quickly you can do each step - make a game of it! In the future, just give yourself one or two small things to clean up each day so that you won't be stuck with one big cleaning project later on.

Tell your mom about the problem or dump all her junk on her bed.

Give a reward to yourself after you are done, such as having your friends over for a movie marathon, or eating your favorite dish for supper.

Have her help you clean, make it a fun game where she helps you pick things up and put them away. You could also turn on a show she likes and clean up while she watches.

You can download apps that prevent you from going on certain apps until the time is up. You can do the same for your computer or laptop.

Instead of covering, you can clean out the stain in most cases. Google how you can remove the specific type of stain you have and you are likely to find a method.

You can try to change your habits around how you handle messes as they arise. Generally, for a whole room to become messy, you have to leave a bunch of little messes around until they pile up and make one big mess. If you instead pick up each small mess as it happens, you can keep your whole room from becoming messy.

Go out and do more things and be more active.

Get into a habit of putting something away right after you've finished with it, such as clothes or makeup.

There's no magic answer here. You have to pick up after yourself if you want a clean room. You have to put some effort into it.

Mirrors and light colors are great for making rooms look bigger. Mimimal clutter and keeping the room clean will make it feel larger, too.

Go to any home store they should have window cleaner that should help. Or, you can close blinds or curtains to cover it.

Tackle the biggest problem first, like your bed and piles of clothes. Then, even if your room isn't completely done, it will look much tidier.

Try to cover the bad parts with posters, pictures, or paper printouts. You could also hang tapestry or even a blanket if the walls are really bad.

Ask your mom or your dad to time you, and maybe even give you a reward every time you finish cleaning a section of your room in a set amount of time.

You could, but then it wouldn’t be clean, would it? By putting everything in the closet, you are just moving the mess, and you’ll probably end up having to clean it later. In the long run, it’s better to clean your stuff now.

Ask your parents if they can talk to them about not doing this. Tell them you're getting older and you need your privacy and it would be helpful if your siblings were a little more respectful of your space.

You have to just do it. Keep a few of your favorite stuffed animals, like 2 or 3. Pack the rest away in boxes or bags and donate them to a charity. Keeping them in the basement only moves clutter from one room to another. Be brave, give them up to someone who needs them!

No matter how messy your room is, cleaning it is never impossible. Make a plan first. Write down everything you need to do to clean your room (i.e. put away clothes, put away toys, tidy up desk, make bed, dust shelves, etc.), then just make your way down the list. Ask you check things off, you'll feel a sense of accomplishment because you're getting things done.

Ask someone to help you move the heavier objects, or try placing a piece of cloth underneath something heavy and use the cloth to slide it.

You can throw some things away, or donate to the Goodwill (or similar organizations) to clear up some space in your room.

Ask her politely and say "Can you please clean up the mess you made in my room?." Or, you can clean it up for yourself and say to your sister that "next time you should help me" and if she doesn't want to help you and she doesn't listen, then tell her next time she goes in your room, you'll go into hers and make a mess there.

Put it into a “time capsule” to store in your basement. That way, you can keep the stuff but not have it cluttering your room. If it gets really bad, you should see a therapist to help you with a potential hoarding problem.

Don't pile stuff on your bed. If you can, pile the stuff in a way where you can't get to your bed without clearing away that pile. With a loft bed, you can get away without making the bed, so that's one less step.