Welcome to Day Seventeen of the 31 Days of Organizing Tips series! I'm so glad you've joined me. Throughout this series I'll be sharing organizing tips that will help you on your journey from overwhelmed to organized. I'll include lots of pictures and links for ideas that I've found around the web that relate to the topic each day. You'll find a complete list of all the posts in the 31 Days of Organizing Tips tab above, or at the end of this post.
Today's tip is about organizing your medicine cabinet. Some people store their medicines in their kitchen, some in their bathroom, and some in their linen closet. Wherever you keep them, it's important to keep them organized, because you don't need anything else making you feel overwhelmed when someone is sick or hurt!
A few medicine cabinet tips:
- Regularly go through your medications to ensure you purge items that have expired.
- Make sure you are storing your medications at the recommended temperature.
- Keep your medications up high and locked away if you have small children in the house.
- Store all your first aid supplies (bandaids, gauze, ointments, etc.) in the same location as your medicines so you don't need to search in multiple places for something you need.
- Choose a storage system that will work for your space and that makes the best use of the space you've chosen.
For more on purging expired medications, including how to properly dispose of them, check out this post from the 31 Days of Easy Decluttering series.
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| Decluttering Expired Medications |
Here are a variety of storage options for organizing your medicine cabinet. Please remember to pin from the original source for all these fantastic pictures!
1. Lazy susans / turntables. You can rotate them to easily find what you're looking for. Plus, you don't have to worry about knocking bottles over when you're trying to reach for one that's at the back of the shelf. These double decker turntables are great for medicines since the bottles and boxes are often short.
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| Store More in Your Bathroom |
2. Caddies. I love how cute this caddy is and it's portable so you can bring it wherever it's needed. Click the link below the picture for a really cute "Daddy cold caddy" too!
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| Organized Caddy for Colds |
3. Dishpans (or any plastic containers). These are great in case any of the medicine spills (you only have to wipe out the plastic container instead of dealing with sticky medicine everywhere). You can group your medications and label the containers so you (and others who may be helping you out!) can quickly find what you need and return it to its place for the next time it's required.
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| How to Organized the Medicine Cabinet |
4. Plastic drawers. These help you keep small items separated and maximize your vertical space. They are perfect for first aid supplies and small things like medicine cups or droppers.
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| Medicine Cabinet Makeover |
5. Create your own solution! I love this system that uses stackable letter trays and drawer organizer bins. It really made great use of her space and she was able to re-purpose items she had already.
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| How to Organize Medicine |
For Day Seventeen, purge your medicine cabinet. Then, if it needs better organization, choose one of these solutions or come up with one that will work for you and then make it happen. Keeping things organized in your medicine cabinet (wherever it is!) will make things less overwhelming when someone in your family is sick or hurt so it's really worth the time it takes to organize it.
{Note: If you're getting overwhelmed with all the ideas in this series, please understand that is NOT my intention! :) This series is designed for me to write every day for a month, not for you to completely organize your house in a month. That thought overwhelms me! So, feel free to skim and pin/bookmark these tips now and then come back later when you're ready to tackle a particular organizing project. I'll add a button or tab to the blog at the end of the series that will make it easy for you to find all the posts. Hope that take some pressure off!}
Tomorrow we'll take a break from organizing various spaces in your home and look at tips to help your kids get organized. We'll return to some more spaces in your home later in the series. I look forward to going through this series with you and hearing your tips too!
Where do you store your medicines and first aid supplies? How do you organize them? What's the best organizing tip you've implemented?
Have a great day and happy organizing!
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