How to Clean your Room

1. Blog about it
Let's be realistic. If a sneeze makes it to your facebook status, an event like spring cleaning surely merits an entire blog. So, after tormenting your friends with obsessing over your imminent clean-up, writing about it on facebook, twitter, etc, you might as well go the mile and write a blog about it. It can be a series beginning with the exact moment you decided that your room needed hauling up. You may end it with your final battle against disorderliness ending in your victory


2. Do you need to do it?
There are times when you need to clean your room, and there are times when you want to do it. If this realisation strikes you thee months after the last bout of cleaning, then you definitely need to get cracking. However, if you feel like washing the curtains because they look more beige than off-white, you surely need a break. Take the day off and indulge in some retail therapy.

3. Recruit help
A Herculean task it is that you have undertaken. A task best tackled with friends or family who will push you, hound you and generally trouble you until the mission is accomplished. Pick the most neurotic ones. They tend to take over and start doing the work themselves. A little snappish behaviour is to be expected - but hey...your room gets cleaned!

3. Make a playlist
One of the most important add-ons, music. Without it nothing has rhythm, nothing has the right flow or beat. Everything becomes so much more easier when you have music accompanying you. And for this kind particular endeavour, a peppy something would be perfect. You want to select tunes which make you want to do a jig; anything that compels you to be on your feet and move around. Also, it's a perfect ploy to procrastinate without feeling guilty.

4. Tackling your wardrobe
The wardrobe that must not be named, opened or seen, lest heaps of clothing fall on your poor head! Seeing as I have a wealth of experience in this field, let me tell you one thing. Emptying your wardrobe onto your bed, your roommates's bed, the couch or the floor does not count as cleaning it. It just seems clean because it's empty. The real challenge is stuffing it back in. Good luck with that, because thinking about it gives me the heebies jeebies!

5. Sweeping the rug
The dust needs to go right out- into the dustpan, inside the dustbin and far far away from under the rug, behind the bed and bookshelves. Dusting is the best part about cleaning up. Everything becomes shiny, although you run a risk of having bouts of sneezing. And Collins, the greatest boon ever given to us, is your best friend. It cleans everything! And smells great too! The refrigerator, table-tops, telephone, glass panes, everything just needs a spray of Collin to look sparkly again.

Happy Cleaning!