Keep Your Room Clean in Just 6 Minutes a Day

• Make your bed (2 minutes). Even a fluffy down comforter pulled up over messy sheets will look polished.

• Fold or hang clothes and put away jewelry (4 minutes). Even better: Resist the urge to toss them somewhere in the first place! Put them away as you take them off.

• Straighten out the night-table surface (30 seconds). Take last night’s water glass to the kitchen, stow your reading glasses in a drawer, and straighten books or magazines.