Spring Clearing – Bathroom

Introduction

As part of Spring Clearing Week 2022, I will guide you through decluttering and cleaning the main areas of your house.

I am starting with the bathroom.

How to declutter your bathroom

To declutter and clean your bathroom begin by taking everything out of the bathroom. Empty all the cabinets and drawers, and remove bottles and tubes from your bath, shower and sink. I suggest using plastic boxes to store your bathroom content. This ensures that A it’s easy to put stuff in and take things out, and B it aids sorting.

Once you have emptied your bathroom, whip down everything thoroughly, mop and hoover the floor and go into all the nooks and crannies to ensure everything is cleaned from top to bottom.

While you wait for the surfaces to dry, go through your bathroom’s content and sort it by type, putting all the shampoos in one spot, all the soaps, all the lipsticks etc. You get the gist. Putting like and like together allows you to evaluate which items you have multiples off and possibly what you have missing.

Discard everything that is out of date, broken or empty. Of course, keep an heir and a spare, but anything more is unnecessary.

You can do several things if you have more than your heir and spare anything.

• Donate unopened items in good condition to your local food bank or refuge charity
• Keep the item and instead of buying new toiletries, donate the money you would have spent to a refuge charity such as Refugee Action UK or the Red Cross.
• Give high-quality toiletries such as shower gels, perfumes or soaps that you don’t use and haven’t opened as second-hand presents to friends or keep for secret Santas

Any items you don’t need anymore, recycle or throw if they can’t be recycled if it’s totally unusable. Any opened bottles with only a little of their content left, put somewhere prominent to ensure you use them quickly.

Conclusion

To get further ideas on how to get organised and more productive, check out my other posts here.

Need help with getting organised, contact me here, and I’d be delighted to work with you.

trabantbettina

Bettina Anna Trabant, Founder of Life Organised, your professional organising and decluttering service in East London. Eco-conscious minimalist and avid tea drinker,