If I learned anything as I battled my cold this last weekend, it's that my medicine cabinet is dreadfully disorganized. I KNOW I've discarded old medicines and vitamins recently, but where do these expired bottles keep coming from? It's not a question you want to be asking at 3 am, when you are pillaging your cache of drugs for relief so you can sleep.
Yesterday, I found myself waiting for my husband to get off the phone. I glanced again at the shelves to the right of my kitchen sink where the medicine is kept, and remembered I had some cheap plastic bins tucked away somewhere. So while he yakked away, I did a very quick reorganization of the cabinet. In less than 10 minutes, I'd thrown out the cough syrup from 2003, the prescriptions from Tom's last dental visit (2005), the vitamins from 2008 and the half dozen other bottles that cluttered the area.
Since I don't have a nice label maker, I simply folded an index card in half and tucked it over the edge of each bin for the separate categories of medicines. Now I won't have to dig through the immodium to get to the ibuprofin, and vice-versa.
By the time my man had hung up the phone, I was feeling mighty smug. I can hardly wait to get sick again so I can take advantage of my in-house pharmacy!
Today's Small Thing is to purge your medicine cabinet of expired medicines and vitamins. You don't have to organize them unless you feel so inclined. But you'll be pleasantly surprised to find out it's not as hard as you think it is.
POINTS: 30 for cleaning out the medicine cabinet!
What's the oldest thing you're throwing out?
