Ever had one of those days where you were called by your mum to clean up your room? You practically HATED to throw away your stuff, let alone clean them up. So what do you do? Try these methods. Some have been tried, but you can try them at your own risk. That's why I'm putting the drawbacks here: so you can think about it before doing it.

Lock your room up. That way, your mother won't see the mess. Drawback: She might have the key to your room. Or maybe you'll get locked out or in.

Blame your younger brother/sister/live-in cousin for the mess. Drawback: Your parents might go on and on about being responsible and cleaning up after others.

Throw your unwanted things into EVERYBODY else's room. Drawback: THEY might throw their stuff into YOUR room and you'll have to clean their messes.

Ask your mum to clean your room for you, since she's the one who's grumbling. Drawback: She will either lecture you OR she'll clean up your room, only to find that she threw out the poster of Sailor Saturn that was sooooo hard to find.

Avoid your mum at all costs when she changes the subject to your room. Drawback: She'll suspect something.

Quote something when she asks about your room e.g. "A room reflects one's personality". Drawback: Mothers have practiced the art of turning their child's words against them.

Grumble on and on about getting your own apartment when you start working. Drawback: See above.

Throw EVERYTHING that you have into your closet or under the bed. Drawback: She may look there to see if you tried out this method.

Say that a ton of things are of sentiment of you and you hate throwing them away and you don't have enough storage space to keep them. Drawback: She'll volunteer to sort your things up and that's even worse, because you'll have to think of excuses to keep your stuff.

The BEST and surefire method of all: Arm yourself with a thrash bag and clean your room. Give no mercy to useless things. Of course, everything has a drawback: A few weeks later, you'll slap yourself for throwing out that stub of pencil just because you boyfriend at primary school gave it to you. Drawback #2: Keep this method up and your family will be even more suspicious.

That's all I can get for the time being. If time permits, I'll create more lists like this for those people out there with these problems.

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