Here is a tip you might find useful. We use it when we are getting a house ready for resale. This works even if you are starting in one corner. Look around the room, pick up everything that does not belong in the room, put it in a container. next when cleaning when you pick up some thing that belong some place else, put it where it belong or were you want it, that way you are not handling it 2x.If it's a basement we get trash first.