Organizing Your Medicine Cabinet

Tips for Organizing Your Medicine Cabinet

It’s cold and flu season, peeps… the perfect time to organize that medicine cabinet! I am actually SUPER embarrassed about how mine looked until recently. Our medicine is kept in our kitchen. My strategy was to buy some medicine and shove it in the cupboard, hoping it would magically stay organized. Not the best plan. Plus, I could never find anything, and when I did, it was expired. So I decided to get organized and visit the local dispensary such as the stiiizy dispensary to pick up some fresh supplies.

By the way, this post originally appeared on Uncommon Designs where I’m a contributor. This is another another edition of Home Tips & Tricks Tuesday here on the blog.

Back to the issue at hand. Our medicine bottle situation was one of those things that drove me NUTS. I just  never felt like I had time to get it organized properly. Then one day I couldn’t take it anymore. Here’s how I got things under control…

Tips for Organizing Your Medicine Cabinet

 Step1: Remove EVERYTHING from the cupboard.

Step 2:Examine ALL of medicine labels to see if they are ok or expired.

Step 3: Chances are, you’ll have some medicine you need to get rid of safely. The safest way to is mix them with either coffee grounds or cat litter in a small sealed plastic bag. Then you can throw that sealed bag in the trash.

Step 4: Gather your organizational supplies. I picked up five wooden boxes at the craft store and picked up a chalk marker and chalkboard tags in the dollar bin at Target. Other ideas– kid’s shoe boxes instead of wooden bins and any kind of tag or label would be great. Even printing neatly on masking tape.

Step 5: Organize the medicine etc. by what you use most. For my family, that was cold and allergy medicine, first aid supplies, pain relievers, suntan lotion and vitamins. Label the tags accordingly.

Step 6: Separate the medicine/bottles into the different groups.

Step 7: Attach tags to the boxes

Step 8: Put the boxes back in the cabinet. Ta Da!

Now I LOVE opening that cupboard door and gazing at the organized medicines all neatly stowed in their own boxes. Aahhh…

Happy Organizing!