The Queen of clean by Linda Cobb

Author:Linda Cobb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books

No matter what size your bathroom is, you’ll never have enough storage. Since it’s also the room we most hate to clean (I’ve taken an informal royal survey!), it presents us with some unique challenges in conquering clutter. But start with this premise, Less clutter means less cleaning, and you can’t go wrong.

Before you tackle this project, consider the traffic. Who uses the room—just one person, several family members, or is it a guest bath used only infrequently? Any time more than one person uses a bathroom, it’s a good idea to assign each individual his or her own area for storage. This can be as simple as assigning a shelf or a portion of a shelf, grouping containers together for grooming aids, or declaring one half of the counter “his” and one half “hers.” But before you start on this, let’s add another person to the mix—let’s bring along your , and work through this clutter-clearing program step-by-step-by-step.

Question: Look around. What things in the bathroom are really working? What things do I like—what things do I hate? Am I wasting time every morning digging for essentials? Is my blow dryer tangled in its cord? How many times have I been late leaving the house because I had to search for my curling iron or razor among all of the clutter that has accumulated?

Unpack: You’ll be familiar with this step by now. Working with one area at a time, take everything out of the medicine cabinet, remove the bottles from the side of the bath, and unpack the cabinet under the sink. Remove towels from the cupboards and toiletries from the vanity. Once you have everything emptied out, you can look it all over and decide what to keep. Be sure to work with just one area at a time, though. Otherwise you’ll have an unholy mess!

Evaluate: Think your bathroom is home to just soap and towels? Think again!

• Start with the larger things, such as towels and washcloths. Look them over to determine if any of them should become rags.

• Weed out the hot rollers you used in the ’80s, your husband’s sideburn trimmer that he used when he had sideburns. . . and hair, and all of those headband and hair ornaments you used when you had long hair.

• Try your blow dryers and see which one(s) work(s) the best.

• Gather up all of your prescription and over-the-counter drugs and check the expiration dates on each bottle. Discard any that are past their expiration date.

• Toss out all pill bottles that don’t have labels.

• Blister-pack pills often get separated from their boxes. While the blister-pack itself often contains identifying information as to the type of drug and the expiration date, if you’re in doubt, get rid of them.

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