Early morning routines often involve rushing out the door, while nighttime ones frequently mean going through the motions exhausted. Neither is the ideal time to realize you’ve run out of aspirin or can’t find an essential product. Organizing your medicine cabinet with the following steps can help keep everything in order and easy to spot.
1. Take Everything Out
First, remove everything from the cabinet and set it aside. There’s no need to sort items yet, but you can save some time in the next step by doing some broad categorizing as you take things out.
Give the cabinet a good cleaning so you have a tidy space to work with.
2. Declutter What You Can
Before sorting what you need, get rid of what you don’t. Check the expiration dates on all your products, and throw away any expired ones. Anything unidentifiable or odd-looking should also go in the garbage or be disposed of safely. Carefully go through what’s left and determine what you use frequently or need to keep on hand.
3. Organize Items by Type
Once you’ve identified what you want to keep, separate items by their use. Invest in organizing baskets or bins that help you group similar things. For example, sort by categories like beauty, personal care and essential oils. Repeat the process to form subgroups, such as hair care, contact lens necessities and medications.
4. Assess Your Needs
Next, consider how you use your medicine cabinet. Do you start every day in front of the mirror with a multivitamin or take your contacts out each night before bed? If so, it makes sense to keep those items handy. Look at your baskets or bins to determine what must stay in the cabinet and what you could easily store elsewhere.
5. Expand the Space
If it still seems like you have more items than available cabinet storage, expand your space with clever solutions like:
- Add shelves to the side: You can mount storage shelves directly to the cabinet’s sides or the walls flanking it.
- Put storage on top of the cabinet: Narrow baskets and bins placed on top are ideal for less-used items.
- Use hooks: These accessories can attach directly to the underside of shelves, the door’s inside or the cabinet’s sides.
- Install a magnetic strip on the side: Strips are perfect for holding small metal items like tweezers or magnetic containers.
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