Now that Fall is upon us, so is cold and flu season. Â So far we have had 2 stomach bugs, 2 ear infections, and last night my older daughter had a fever of 104 degrees. Â In order to be prepared, medications need to be easily accessible. Â Trust me, you don’t want to be searching for children’s ibuprofen at 3 a.m. and not be able to find it! Â We keep our most used items in an upper cabinet in the kitchen. Â Today I want to share with you some easy and cheap medicine cabinet organization.
Hot Mess Before Picture
This cabinet was a complete mess. Â I kind of had an idea of where things were, but it would take me forever when trying to find one specific thing. Â There was one little white basket in there, but it held all kinds of stuff and not one category. Â I thought that if I can get more of those baskets, I can have one for each group of medicine that we frequently use.
Labels, Labels, Labels
Once I emptied out my cabinet and went through my medicine, I grouped them into categories. Â I mainly wanted to keep vitamins, Kids, Pet, and regularly used medications in this space. Â Other specific meds, like prescriptions and cold medicine, were relocated to our master closet. Â I have a space in there for all other medicines I will show you another time.
I used my Silhouette Cameo to print and cut card stock labels for the following categories: vitamins, pain & allergy, tummy, kids, first aid, and one for our dog Georgie. Â Also, I recently got this new Brother printer and I am SO happy with it. Â It prints onto card stock with no problems and the ink replacement cartridges are really cheap! Â Like $30 for all the colors cheap!
Set up Baskets
Once the labels were cut out, I then used a hot glue gun to attach them to the baskets. Â Also if you don’t have a Cameo, you can get a cute paper punch to make small labels. Â You can also just print them out and cut them by hand with scissors.
Easy Medicine Cabinet Organization
Once all the baskets were labeled, I began filling them with bottles and placed the baskets on the shelves.
No more wasting time searching for medicine, especially at 3 a.m. haha. Â Now I can easily pull an entire basket down onto the counter and look for what I need.
I’m so happy to have yet another project checked off of my Kitchen Project List! Â Not much left to do in there except to tackle my plastic container cabinet, organize a few drawers, and either replace or spray paint the ceiling fan. Â Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are now inspired to organize your own medicine cabinet.
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