Clean as a Whistle: Decluttering Solutions for the Bathroom

The Weekly Tittle is an exercise designed to focus your attention on a specific space, aspect, or challenge of decluttering and organizing your home. We assign a new tittle in each webcast/podcast, then check on your progress the following week.

A Product Problem

Of those who answered our bathroom survey, more respondents blamed their clutter on too many products than on any other single issue, so this week’s assignment is to review the products you’ve accumulated in the bathroom and “thin the herd”:

• Gather all your bathroom products into one place. Pull everything out of all the places where you have stuff stashed!
• Sort by type: shampoos, soaps, dental care items, lotions, bathroom cleaning products, other hair products, makeup, etc.
• Selected the products that you’re currently, actively using and set them aside to keep.
• Keep a reasonable back stock of surplus products, bearing in mind how long the supply will last at your usual rate of use.
• Dispose of any products you’re not using that are no longer suitable to donate or give away.
• Identify one or more recipients, then donate your partially used or unused products. Look for a buy-nothing group, a women’s shelter, a refugee program, etc., or share your excess in the break room at work or any similar place where people gather.

For the full discussion of this week’s tittle, watch the Weekly Tittle segment on YouTube.