Why and how to declutter your bathroom?
The bathroom is one of the rooms in the house where we spend the most time on a daily basis. It is also, like the kitchen, a place that quickly becomes messy and cluttered. It is therefore important to declutter your bathroom and, what is more, to do it regularly. Before we start, let’s first ask ourselves the following questions:
Why declutter your bathroom?
As we discussed in our article on the benefits of decluttering , there are 4 major benefits:
Save time
Imagine that you enter your bathroom in the morning to get ready to face the day. You find what you need directly , you don’t have to search for your things. Your day cream is easily accessible and your deodorant is not hidden behind various other hygiene products. It’s only a few minutes saved but they will be precious in the countdown to the morning start.
Save time when cleaning the bathroom . No need to move the bottles placed on the edge of the bathtub or shower to clean it, a wipe with a cloth will be done in no time.
Earn money
In a clutter-free bathroom you have an immediate overview of the different products you want to use. You have a precise knowledge of what you are missing. No more buying toothpaste and realizing afterwards that you still had 5 tubes in the bottom of the drawer! The tidy and uncluttered bathroom allows you to avoid unnecessary purchases .
Space saving
By decluttering, you will get rid of the superfluous, everything you don’t really need or that you no longer use. You will have less things to store in your bathroom and it will therefore, by definition, be tidier.
Energy saving
A tidy bathroom creates less stress. Compare a shower where shampoo and shower gel bottles are constantly falling on your feet to a shower where all the products you need are neatly stored and easy to access. Your mind will be more zen if your bathroom is more zen.
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You will also be healthier thanks to decluttering. As mentioned above, easier cleaning will have a direct impact on the hygiene of the room. Your healthy “stock management” will also prevent you from keeping and using expired products. This is therefore beneficial from a health point of view. No more leftovers of old makeup that, over all this time, have mutated into nests of bacteria. No more expired body cream that is best avoided on your skin.
How to declutter your bathroom?
To declutter your bathroom, we invite you to follow the same procedure as that described in this article .
Gather
First, empty and gather everything in one place . Empty the drawers, the cupboards, the furniture. Take out everything that is in the shower, on the edge of the bathtub or around your sink. You get the idea, empty everything, everything, everything!
Good start but it’s not over yet. Limiting yourself to the bathroom is not enough. Secondly, go around the rest of the house to gather ALL the cosmetic items lying around (hand cream in the bedroom, nail polish in the living room, medicines in the kitchen, etc.). The goal is to not omit any object from this category in the four corners of the house.
Realize what you have
By this simple action of inventorying the items in the “bathroom” category, you will realize the quantity of products accumulated . At the same time, you will realize that you certainly have enough care products to last a little while without having to go to the supermarket. A substantial saving!
Now, it may be useful to group products by category such as shower gels and soaps, shampoos, face creams, makeup, etc. You will easily realize the duplicates that you have in each category. If you like to wear makeup, you probably have several lipsticks and maybe even in the same shades. Is it necessary to keep all of them? We are in favor of keeping only the one that we (still) like and that we wear regularly.
What to do with products you are getting rid of?
Once this maneuver is done, your 5 boxes are full, that’s good. And now, what to do with all these sorted products? Reserve the boxes “to keep” and “to store” and take care of the other 3 boxes first. It is important to go through with this step because if you put it off, these 3 boxes risk hanging around and not reaching their destination. So you will have just moved the mess and not eliminated it.
