If you can spare 10 minutes once or twice a day, you can spruce up the house without breaking a sweat:

    1. Grab a laundry basket, a large trash bag and some small trash bags. Go from room to room, emptying the trash cans and putting the stuff that doesn't belong in that room into the laundry basket, said Amy Clark, a home management expert for the Kenmore Make-it-Simple Team. Replace the trash bags as you empty the trash.

    2. In another 10-minute chunk, return the items in the laundry basket to their proper homes.

    3. Next, sort the mail. Recycle old magazines, newspapers and file away papers, said Alicia Rockmore, CEO of Buttoned Up, an organizational lifestyle company in Ann Arbor, Mich.

    4. Do a surface wipe. Take some disinfectant wipes or some cleanser and paper towels and clean all the counters and the sinks in the kitchen and the bathrooms that get used the most often, said Rockmore. "Literally, you can do the kitchen in 10 minutes and one or two bathrooms in 10 minutes."

    5. Grab two microfiber cloths and a multipurpose cleanser, said Clark. Dust the surfaces in each room with one cloth and use the other to wipe down the mirrors.

    6. Unload and load the dishwasher.

    7. Do the final eye, said Rockmore. Check room by room to see if anything needs to be addressed immediately, such as a dirty toilet.

    每一两天，花上十分钟，你就可以毫不费力把房子收拾的干干净净。 

    1.拿一个洗衣篮，一个大垃圾袋和几个小垃圾袋，逐个房间地清空垃圾筒，并且把不属于该房间的物品放入洗衣篮，再将新的垃圾袋套入已清空的垃圾筒。——艾米·克拉克，来自楷模公司（Sears Kenmore）省心团队的家政专家如是说。 

    2. 再花十分钟，将洗衣篮内的物品归位到适当的位置。 

    3. 接下来，把邮件分类，回收旧杂志、旧报纸，将文件归档。这是来自阿里莎·洛克默，现任密歇根安娜堡一个生活组织化公司Bottoned Up CEO的建议。

    4. 做表面清洁工作。用杀菌湿巾，或者清洁剂和纸巾，将厨房的台面、水槽以及常用的厕所清理干净。洛克默说：“确切来说，你可以在10分钟之内清完厨房，或者一两个厕所。” 

    5. 拿两条细纤维抹布，一瓶多功能清洁剂，克拉克提议，用其中一条抹布擦净每个房间里的灰尘，用另一条擦净镜子。 

    6. 清空洗碗机，再装满。 

    7. 做最后的检查，洛克默说。逐个房间地检查，看是否有遗漏之处需要立即处理，例如脏的马桶