Running from school, to practice, through the drive-thru, and then collapsing in bed for the night doesn’t leave a lot of time to keep your house – and your life – organized!

But Working Mother has a great list of things you can do if you only have 15 minutes, including:

 1. Tackling the stack of paper on your kitchen counter (or wherever paper piles grow in your house).

 2.  As you are sorting and purging, ask yourself why it always ends up there—and how you might avoid the same pile happening again.

They also have ideas of what to do if you have more than 15 minutes, and things you should do before bed, here.