Give your medicine cabinet an organizing makeover with this organizing hack and five simple steps

Looking for easy steps to organize your medicine cabinet? It may have been a while since you have taken a good look at what is inside your Rx stash. Like most of us, I included. It’s like the last thing on our minds until we end up looking for medications or vitamins.

Even though I go in my medicine cabinet daily to take my vitamins, I still have falling pill bottles. Yes, I am your happy homemaker advocate and love cleaning and organizing. But I am also a mom, and there are a few areas that need my attention but don’t get it as often as they should.

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Maybe your medicine cabinet is in your vanity or in the kitchen cabinet like mine.

Today I wanted to share 5 easy steps to help you declutter a medicine cabinet in 10 mins.

Step 1.

Is to pull everything out. We need to be able to see everything we own.

Step 2.

Sort it out using the S.P.A.C.E method, which stands for

Sort

Purge

Assign a home

Containerize

Equalize

Find a counter, area in your home, and place all the stuff in your medicine cabinet where you can see it all. Sort like items together. Then discard all expired medication. Next, decide on its new home.

Think about how often you use medication/vitamins etc. The most used ones should be easy to reach, displayed in front, and easy to put back.

Then you want to containerize everything. Organizing your medicine cabinet can be done in a few ways.

Simple 4 step category

pain
vitamins
cold
prescriptions

By type

Childrens
Adults
Vitamins

By Aliments

Cold/Flu
Allergies/Asthma
Digestive health
Pain/Fever
Sleeping
Vitamins
First Aid

There is no right or wrong way. You need to categorize your medicine in a way that suits you best. Based on all the medications/prescriptions you have. This helps so that you can find items faster and reduce the chances of duplicate medications.

5 Steps to organizing your medicine closet

Active Time 10 minutes

Total Time 10 minutes

Materials

Organizing bins
Clean cloth
Cleaning spray

Instructions

Remove all medications/vitamins from your cabinet
Wipe down cabinet
Discard all expired medication/vitamins
Categorize your medications
Replace all medications back in the cabinet

Notes

Organizing hack tip: If you have your medicine cabinet in the kitchen as I do. One of the best tools to organize your medication is with a lazy susan like this one.

Best medicine organizers and storage containers

Depending on where your medicine cabinet is located or where you live. You may need a few organizers to help keep everything neat once you have taken the time to declutter.

As I mentioned above, my favorite medicine cabinet location now is in my kitchen. Because I can store things high up away from my children. And I can sort by shelf. And currently, I am using dollar tree wire shelves. When are totally working for me. I just change this at the end of 2021 so I will live with it a while to see how it goes.

But I didn’t always have this luxury. In my apartments, I have a skinny medicine cabinet and no under-storage sink. And in my condo, I had no medicine cabinet but under the storage sink but still in the bathroom.

These are some great medicine storage container options:

Why you shouldn’t store your medicines in your bathroom

When most people think of a medicine cabinet or vanity, they think the bathroom. It’s common in many households as the go-to place to store their medications.

But did you know this is the worst place to store them?

If you have ever read the label of your medication, it says to store it in a cool, dry place. Well… the bathroom is quite the opposite of that.

The heat and moisture in your bathroom will cause your medication to be less potent and expire sooner than intended.

As a mom, I prefer to store the medication in the kitchen because it keeps it in a higher place out of reach for my kids.

How often should you empty your medicine cabinet?

Honestly, I think once a year is a good enough time frame. Most medications have a year or more expiration time frame.

But I will say the best time to empty your medicine cabinet is during the fall season. Right before the cold/flu season hits and during the time of the year where you may find yourself reaching for more cold ezze.

I love using it as a reminder for back to school as well. Because I also keep all my essential oils in the medicine cabinet as well.