1. Prioritize.
Take a step back and reaaaaally look at your room. What is the biggest offender? Shoe piles? No visible floor space? Crusty old dishes? Crusty old dishes and half-empty glasses of curdled milk under the bed that are creating a sour odor? Crusty UNDERWEAR? Try to see your room for the first time, treating a shared room as if it were completely yours. What’s most immediately shocking? What’s the first thing that might snag someone’s gaze? (Hint: it’s the underwear.) Time spent: 10 seconds.