Stevea Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is quickly cleaning before a party without stooping to sweeping stuff under the rug.

The quick and dirty tip is to keep moving and clearing, using holding areas and a a party-clearing worksheet to deal with those tricky-to-handle situations.

Last weekend was party weekend! It was time for our fall party where all our friends, loved ones, and neighbors get together and find every excuse to drink.

Eat fattening foods, thank you, nutrition diva, and make merry. Sadly, one party

highlight happens the day before. I get to clean the apartment. I know this sounds easy, but I'm a guy

and I have been for most of my life. If you've ever tried to clean a guy's apartment, you know

it is a daunting task. Guys have too much stuff. We don't really have places

to put it, and we have food stuck to the walls. We usually don't know how to clean. Cleaning

is all about decisions. Cleaning up really amounts to making a bunch of decisions. You go through

your apartment, bathroom, or garage, and put each item away, complaining

bitterly about how much you hate house cleaning.

You put each item where it belongs.

It sounds simple until you reach that sculpture of Queen Elizabeth made entirely out of macaroni

and glitter.

It's obviously worth keeping, but where does it go?

The time and energy of making that decision is what makes

clean up a chore. There are two ways to clean something up. You put it where it actually belongs,

that's real cleaning, or you can get a really big carpet and sweep it under the rug. That's easy

cleaning, but it's fake, because you forget where you put things,

so you buy replacements, giving you twice the junk to clean up for your next party. Plus,

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