Next up: Medicine cabinets

Back from vacation and back to work.... We know how to have fun around here!  Tonight:  Medicine Cabinets.  All three of em.  Because everyone needs three medicine cabinets, right?   

Two of which are pictured below.  (The third, a drawer of random travel sized toiletries and lightbulbs) was tackled rather spontaneously last night after tucking in the kids.)

Before:

The assembled clutter...  8 years worth of accumulation...

Mid-sort.  I find I create a circle as I work through each category.

Ivy has been my dedicated helper on this project.  She had a great time throwing out all of the expired medications, quickly internalizing the rule that any "loose pills" were an automatic pitch (you'd be surprised how many of those there were!  You'd also be surprised at the number of medications that were 8-10 years old.  That trash bag?  Full.

After:

Kitchen:  Only medicines are in middle bin-- vitamins and painkillers. The joy of empty space inside a cabinet should not be underrated...

Bathroom:  The rest of the medicines are here, upstairs storage has been freed up for bedding.  Extra space in this cabinet now houses toilet paper and cleaning products, which were previously shoved into the space around the toilet.  Getting better around here, one forgotten little corner at a time..

I'm a bit concerned about these bins in the medicine cabinet.  At the moment they are organized by type and size and frequency of use and it's all lovely.  But this storage method seems to violate the rule of accessible and visible, and I can see these bins overflowing with randomly tossed items before too long.  The likely solution is to discard more.  But it turns out that the criteria of "sparking joy" is a tough one to meet when working with allergy medication and Pepto-Bismol.

It's a good start, at any rate...

Now, what to work on tomorrow???