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How To Declutter Bathroom Cabinets & Closets

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Today's mission is to declutter your bathroom cabinets and closets, removing anything that shouldn't stay there so you can organize what you do end up keeping.


This mission is designed to be done while working on the Bathroom Organization Challenge here on the site, which is one of the 52 Week Organized Home Challenges.

Bathroom Organization Challenge
Yesterday we worked on decluttering bathroom drawers, and today we'll do a similar process when working on the cabinets and/or closets you may have in your bathroom.

(Remember though, we specifically worked on decluttering the cabinet under your bathroom sink in this previous mission, here.)

Typically the cabinets and closets in bathrooms are not huge (unless you've got an exceptionally large bathroom), so much like when you did the drawers, today you can take everything out of the cabinet at once to declutter it.

How to declutter bathroom cabinets and closet shelves, including lots of before and after photos from readers who've done this #Declutter365 mission {on Home Storage Solutions 101}use this Pin it button to save to Pinterest
If you've got a significant amount of clutter though, or a large number of cabinet or closet shelves to deal with, you may want to break it down further, focusing on one shelf or cabinet at a time.

This is especially important to do if you have a limited amount of time to work on this project. If so, break it down into 15 minute segments, and make sure to clean up for the last 5 or so minutes of each of those segments, so
it never gets to be a huge mess. (You can read more about this method for decluttering here.)

When decluttering this area of your home, evaluate each of the items that you take out of the cabinet, or off the shelves, and keep, put elsewhere in your home if it doesn't belong there, trash (or recycle), donate, or get it ready for sale. Each item should have to "earn" its way back into your bathroom, meaning you only keep the stuff you really do use, regularly, and get rid of the rest.

Only once you've decluttered all of your bathroom cabinets or closet shelves should you begin the next part of this process, which is to organize all of these items.

The reason you declutter completely first, is that you may have similar or like items stashed in a couple of cabinets, and ideally all of those items would be grouped together in the organizational process. This is easier to do if you wait, until all the decluttering is done, to make sure you don't forget to group everything appropriately.

Below I've gathered before and after photos from readers who've already done this mission, to show you what kind of great results you can achieve for yourself, and to get you motivated to start.

Collage photo courtesy of a reader, Karen, and bottom photo courtesy of another reader, Jenna

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Before & After Photos Showing Decluttered Bathroom Cabinets & Closet Shelves

Before and after of decluttered bathroom cabinets {featured on Home Storage Solutions 101}


Quite a few readers have already done this mission, and they've sent in the photos of what they've accomplished, which I hope you inspire you. The photos above are from Karen.

As you can see, in this photo she showed how she decluttered quite a bit of toiletries. You can find out more about expiration dates for makeup, cosmetics and toiletries here to help you determine when it's time to get rid of some of these items lingering inside your bathroom cabinets.

Before and after when a reader, Laurie, decluttered her bathroom cabinet {featured on Home Storage Solutions 101}


This photo is from Laurie, who said, "Bathroom cabinet. How the heck did I let it get the way it looks on the left!!"

Before and after of decluttered bathroom cabinets, plus what was held in the various storage containers {featured on Home Storage Solutions 101}


The photos above are from a reader, Brandy. She explained of the top photo, "before and after of the HUGE cabinet. Things just got thrown in there." Of the second photo she stated, "here's a look inside all those organizers in the cabinet."

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Are You Ready To Declutter Your Bathroom Closet Or Cabinets Now?

How to declutter your bathroom closets or cabinets, including lots of before and after photos when the clutter is removed {on Home Storage Solutions 101}use this Pin it button to save to Pinterest

The photos above are from a reader, Jenna. She said of the first photo, "The before in a seriously dysfunctional bathroom closet!" Then, of the second photo she stated, "And the after! Got rid of duplicates and triplicates of cleaning supplies and bought a drawer system to hold some of the lesser used items!"

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Once you declutter one type of item in your home I bet you'll want to declutter some more. After all, decluttering gives you a great reward for even a small investment of time and energy.

The Declutter 365 system is designed to help you declutter, over the course of a year, your entire house, with just 15 minutes of decluttering each day!

Hundreds of thousands of people use this proven system to get rid of their clutter, and bring peace and calm back to their homes.

Declutter 365 works to guide you to clear the clutter without overwhelm, focusing on just one small area at a time, and without making a huge mess in the process, so you see consistent forward progress without all that "messy middle" that makes it even harder to function in your home than before you started.

In addition to building a daily decluttering habit, the Declutter 365 program, along with the accompanying 52 Week Organized Home Challenge, teaches you the skills, habits, routines, and mindsets necessary to maintain the clutter free and organized state of your home from now on, so it'll never be as messy and cluttered as it is right now, ever again.

If you haven't already, make sure to get your copy of this year's Declutter 365 annual calendar here (it's FREE!), find today's date, and do 15 minutes of decluttering on the day's mission. Then, repeat again tomorrow, and again and again. Over the course of the next year, if you do this 15 minutes per day, you'll declutter your whole house!


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Right now you're decluttering your bathroom, and there's a lot of stuff to declutter in this space.

Get your 1 page bathroom decluttering checklist, plus 32 other decluttering checklists, to help you declutter your entire home here.

Get this bathroom decluttering checklist and 32 other decluttering checklists for your home {on Home Storage Solutions 101}

I've done the hard work of breaking down these tasks into smaller more manageable steps for you, so you don't get overwhelmed or worry you're forgetting a task, and you can go at the pace you want, whether that's fast or slow.

In addition, you can tackle these decluttering tasks in whatever order you want when you use these checklists!

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Comments for Are You Ready To Declutter Your Bathroom Closet Or Cabinets Now?

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Looks good to me
by: Anonymous

Here's how bad I am, those"cluttered shelves" don't even look cluttered to me. As long as you can see everything, I don't mind having the shelf be full. No need for half-empty shelves.

under bathroom sink
by: Sharlet

I only have the bottom under the sink (double) in bathroom. How could I make 2 shelves so that I could use more space from floor of cabinet to as high as I could put anything? Is about 24 inches. I would prefer something I would put baskets that I could slide out and use.

Added a shelf
by: Ceci

My cabinet was one big hole. I bought a riser, originally intended for keeping little plates separate from big plates in the kitchen. Voila! Twice as much usable space in the cabinet. So much easier to find things when they are on their own shelf!

Great day for this assignment
by: Anonymous

I moved in Feb. and spent a lot of time at first just putting things in the general area they belonged. I had not gotten to organizing the cabinets and drawers in the bathroom area and was so glad the assignment for today was decluttering the bathroom. I tossed some things, but more or less the bathroom just needed to be organized and straightened. Now it will be a whole lot easier to find what I want and keep it that way with a monthly straightening.

Again The $ Store comes to the rescue
by: Dpopcorn

I have an ordinary bathroom cabinet. The little slim baskets from the dollar store fit perfectly. Now I can grab the little basket and take a quick look. Things don't fall out and get messy.

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