Tidying Up: Step 4 – Komono – Bathrooms

We have two bathrooms with a decent amount of storage space. There are two cupboards in our downstairs bathroom. Upstairs there is a shelving unit, medicine cabinet, and a dresser. The dresser holds blankets and such, but the top of it has been a dumping ground for bathroom items that we don’t have room for.

Our bathrooms don’t look that horrible, but we have already had to go out of our way to buy items we thought we had but couldn’t find, only to find them a month later. We have to get rid of some things in order to make room for the the items that we will use. I know the whole Marie Kondo thing is all about loving items. Most bathroom items I don’t really “love”, so it’s mostly an assessment of usefulness here. There are a few items I do love though. My cousin gave us skincare products to pamper ourselves with for our wedding. However, we have yet to open a single bottle, but I would love to do it one day!

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I was surprised how much stuff we had from the bathrooms. Neither of us is really big into primping. My “personal care routine” consists of brushing my teeth (sometimes) and showering a few times a week. I wear make-up maybe 3 times a year. The first thing to go was all of the expired pills. Almost all of the pills were expired. We had multiples of a lot of things. We had 7 pairs of nail clippers. Also, hydrogen peroxide apparently expires! After we sorted through what we wanted to keep, we sorted through which items would be useful in which bathroom.

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