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Cleaning a room doesn't have to be a hard or boring job. In fact, there are many ways to make this task easy and fun.

Listening to music can add fun to work. Before you start to clean your room, turn on a radio or put on your favorite CD. Be sure to choose music that has a lively beat. This will brighten your mood, and it will help the time go by quickly.

Picking up the trash in your room is a good place to start. This step is really quite easy. First, find a wastebasket or paper bag. Moving in time to the music, go around the room and pick up all the trash. When you finish, empty the wastebasket into a trash can.

Putting large items away will make a room appear cleaner. Look around and find the four largest objects that need to be put away. Put these objects where they belong. In an instant your room will seem neater and your job smaller.

Next, put everything that is out of place into piles. You might place all the clothes in one pile, all the toys in another, and all the books and magazines in another. Plan ahead as you do this. This is, put the pile of toys near the toy box and the pile of clothes near the closet. Don't forget to sing along to the music while you work.

Finally, go through each pile and put everything where it belongs. Put the dirty clothes in the clothes hamper and hang up the clean clothes. Neatly arrange the books on the book shelf and put the toys in the toy box. Last, take a quick look around to be sure that you didn't forget anything. Be proud of a job well done.

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