31 Days to Declutter Your Life - DAY 9 (Bathroom)

Our bathroom and laundry room are combine.  If we ever add on to our current home, purchase or build, I want them separate!!  I feel like there just isn't enough room in my bathroom to also have my laundry in there.  We also only have 1 bathroom, which is eventually going to be a problem when the girls get older. 5 girls + 1 bathroom = NOT GOOD!  But for the time being, we are thankful for what we have.

I have always wondered when I walk into bathrooms at other peoples houses, 'How do they keep it so clean?  Where are all of there things? They don't have their toothbrushes out on the counter.  Where do they keep them?"  I just don't get how some bathrooms have almost nothing in them.  I then find myself looking around their house for their laundry room or a linen closet.  I need to reassure myself that the reason their bathroom looks so much better than mine is because they have some other place to put all of those things that I have to keep in my bathroom because I don't have a laundry room or linen closet.

Here are some pictures of what my bathroom/laundry room looks like right now.

Our bathroom is just off our kitchen.  It normally isn't THIS messy, but Jason has been working on the backsplash in the kitchen so his tools are out.  I also use to keep our laundry baskets in the kitchen by the bathroom door.  Now that the kitchen in clean, I don't want to do that anymore, but I have no idea where I am going to put it now.  So it ended up in the middle of our bathroom floor for now.  

Here is our 'laundry room'.  We have some nice shelving above our washer and dryer.  I need to find a better way to utilize them.  

Alrighty, my goal is to get the 'bathroom' part of my bathroom done by Sunday evening. I think the challenging parts are going to be the drawers under the sink and the medicine cabinet.  I don't use a curling iron or blow dryer, but I have them just in case.  Most of the time 'just in case' items I would get rid of, however, these are items that I might really need and I can't just run to the store to pick up.  As a teacher I get several gift of 'smelly stuff' every year for Christmas and at the end of the year.  I can only use so much so I have a drawer devoted to these gift sets.  

I will work on the 'laundry room' part in the next week.