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How to Organize Your Bathroom
by Martha Matthews
When your bathroom cabinets are busting at the seams and your shelves
are spilling over, it's time to get organized. Try these four easy
organizing steps to bring some order to your chaos.
1. Clean and Clear
Remove everything from the drawers and cabinets. Toss out all old and
unused or out of date products: Make-up, hair care, lotions, medicines
(check expiration dates). Remember, "When in doubt, throw it out!" Move
your medicines and vitamins to the kitchen. The moisture and heat from
the bath will ruin them.
As you sort through things, take the time to evaluate whether or not you
really need each item. If you have kept perfume samples, and cosmetics
that are the wrong color, now is the time to throw them out or give them
away. If you aren't using them why keep them?
Wipe out the cupboards and shelves. Clean off the counter top. Replace
the shelf paper on the shelves and in the cabinets if needed.
2. Only the Essentials
The next step is to organize your belongings. Start by putting back only
the essential items that you use every day. Put them in locations where
they will be easily accessible. Try to store what you can under the sink
in plastic bins. If you have the room, give each family member their own
plastic bin to store their toiletries.
As you arrange your counter top, try to put out only the things that you
will use on a regular basis. If you can get away without anything on the
counter, that is even better. There will be less to clean.
If you have decorative items, now is the time to review their relevancy.
If you don't really love them, replace them or remove them all together.
There is no sense in having things you don't really love in your home;
especially if you need to clean them.
3. Making Families
Categorize your shelves and drawers by creating families of like items:
shaving products, hair styling, makeup, nails, personal hygiene items,
first aid, medicines, etc.
4. Relocate the Excess
Make sure that only items that belong in the bathroom are in the
bathroom. Transfer cleaning products to a caddy and store them under the
kitchen sink. Store surplus toilet paper, shampoo and seasonal items,
such as beach towels, tanning, or sunburn lotions in the hall closet or
other location.
4. Storage Ideas
Make use of dead space. Try using any or all of the following organizing
ideas: wall mounted cabinets, carts on wheels, hooks on back of door,
shower caddies, coat rack, hanging mesh bag for holding children's bath
toys, wall mount hair dryer and curling iron, drawer organizers.
Once your bathroom is organized, sit back and admire your work. If you
make this an annual project, your bathroom will always be a joy to use.
Now go take a bubble bath. You deserve it!
About the author
Martha is the Executive Director of
Christian-Homemaking.com,
a web site with resources devoted to helping Christian Homemakers
Manage Their Home. She also has a popular free monthly newsletter for
Christian Homemakers called The Christian Homemaking Newsletter. To
subscribe visit her web site at
http://www.christian-homemaking.com/newsletter.html
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