Before I Kondo’d the heck out of my closet… 
… and after 🙂
In my previous blog post I discussed how I am the queen of organization. Which holds true when it comes to grocery shopping, paying bills, school work, work life, etc., but when it comes to areas in my house I have been struggling to learn how to best get organized. It has been a goal of mine at the start of 2019 to organize and decorate our apartment to function best for us. The bigger goal was to not break the bank doing it. Everything at Home Goods and Target is so adorable, but c’mon, $30 for a basket to organize?! Yikes.
Although I made this goal at the beginning of 2019 and we are already more than halfway through… now is as good of time as any to start the organization! On my list- our bathroom is first. In our previous apartment we didn’t have a lot of bathroom space… so there wasn’t much that needed to be organized. I kept most of my make-up, body sprays, nail polish, etc., on my vanity instead of in the bathroom while everything else went under the sink. Now that I have more room organization is much needed!!
I have been keeping my make-up and every day products- leave-in conditioner, perfume, deodorant, etc., on top of our counter, which had been working, but it just felt so cramped. It was time for a change. I moved our shelving unit that I had in our entrance way into the bathroom and decided that was the best place to store my every day needs. This way it was not on the counter, but was within easy reach.
To start, I took every item out of the drawers and closet and put them into categories all over the floor and counter. I classified all of my items into 7 categories: beauty, medicine cabinet & first aid, Kevin’s, towels, paper products, oral hygiene products, miscellaneous. I also took every storage item I had been using in the bathroom (a basket, 2 drawer storage units, fabric basket, and a couple organizers for the drawers in the vanity) and took inventory of how they could be most effectively purposed. Once everything was in their respective categories I determined if there were any products that needed to be tossed, either because I wasn’t using them or they were expired. After dwindling all the bathroom products into what I use regularly- and getting rid of some OLD bathroom towels– I started adding each category into existing baskets.
With the remainder that didn’t have a home or storage bin- foundation, toliet paper, paper towels, nail polish, our eye “accessories” (aka glasses & contacts), my robe, and extra “medicine cabinet” items- I determined how many more organization items would be needed and what size would be appropriate. I made a list in my Notes App on my iPhone as I do with just about every list in my life. LOL.
Now, usually I would make a trip to Target to get some trendy baskets, but since a big part of my goal was to get organized without blowing my budget out… I headed to Dollar Tree! I’m not going to lie, this was the first time I had ever stepped foot into a dollar store at all, but I recently watched one of my favorite YouTubers who does DIY and home decor on a budget who said that dollar stores are the best place to get small organization needs that are budget friendly. Since these baskets were literally just going into my closet or a drawer, I decided that the dollar store was definitely worth a trip.
I started by going to Family Dollar. There I was able to find a door hook for my robe ($2.25), 2 small drawer organizers for my hair ties & bobby pins ($1.00), a small gray tub for the extra medicine cabinet items ($2.25), and 3 small black drawer organizers for my nail polish, foundation, and our contacts & glasses ($1.00). I was wanting baskets for the extra toliet paper and paper towels that we have, but the baskets that were available at Family Dollar were around $8-$10 and I knew I could find some more reasonably priced ones than that. I ended up venturing to Dollar Tree and found a white basket for $1.00. Yup, ONE DOLLAR. I bought two. So in total for everything to up my bathroom organization game I spent $8.50. Just for kicks and giggles I researched what I would have spent on similar items at Target and folks… it would have cost me about $58, WHAT?
Once I got everything home, I put all the items into their perspective baskets & bins and in the closet I put the things I use most often at eye level. I am planning to add some more decor to our bathroom- especially now that we have more counter space! If you enjoyed this organize with me blog post… let me know and I can post more because there are a few spots in my house that could use some TLC in the organization department. LOL.
Happy Organizing!!!