Tidying Up The Bathroom: Decluttering, Cleaning, and Organizing Tips

The bathroom is one of the most frequently used rooms in the house. It’s also one of the easiest places to accumulate clutter and mess. If you’re tired of your bathroom looking like a disaster zone, it’s time to tidy up! Here are some decluttering, cleaning, and organizing tips to help you get your bathroom looking its best.

Welcome to my Year Long Thorough Declutter Series. We declutter 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. Each day we do a daily task based on the room we are working on. Today, our task is to start decluttering your bathroom clutter in your 2nd bathroom. If you prefer watching videos, check out my youtube channel here. Today, we’ll look at a few simple steps to tidying up the bathroom.

The best way to develop a new habit is by slowly and daily application. We will begin a new daily declutter habit starting with the 2nd bathroom. In the Year Long Thorough Declutter Series, we will declutter 30 minutes a day, five days a week on weekdays. Sign up to receive daily encouragement and motivation.

Plus, you’ll learn your specific daily task to work toward completing the goal of a Year Long Thorough Declutter where you will declutter every space and learn how to start to purge your house. Are you ready to finally get organized? If so, will you join us? Leave a comment below to subscribe.

If you are new to the blog, welcome! I blog about cleaning, decluttering, and organizing. You can find my free printables to help you get organized in the drop down menu under the Printables category.

Currently we are working on decluttering the 2nd bathroom. The daily task for today, April 27, 2023, is to begin decluttering your makeup. Remember, we are focusing on just the 2nd Bathroom area, so don’t declutter your whole house. We will cover each room separately.

Tidying Up The Bathroom:

Decluttering:

The first step in tidying up any space is to get rid of the clutter. Here are some tips for decluttering your bathroom:

Start by taking everything out of the drawers, cabinets, and shelves. This will help you see what you have and what you need to get rid of.
Get rid of any expired or unused products. This includes old medications, cosmetics, and toiletries. If you haven’t used it in the past six months, it’s time to toss it.
Donate or recycle any products that are still usable but you no longer need or want.
Organize the remaining items by category. For example, keep all your skincare products in one drawer and your hair products in another.

Tidying:

Once you’ve decluttered your bathroom, it’s time to tidy up. Here are some tips for keeping your bathroom neat and tidy:

Use baskets or bins to corral smaller items like makeup, hair accessories, and toiletries. This will make it easier to find what you need and keep the counters clear.
Use drawer dividers to keep your drawers organized. You can use them to separate items by category or by frequency of use.
Keep a squeegee in the shower to wipe down the walls and doors after each use. This will prevent soap scum buildup and make cleaning easier.
Keep a laundry basket in the bathroom for dirty towels and clothes. This will help prevent them from piling up on the floor.

Tidying Up The Bathroom by Cleaning:

Keeping your bathroom clean is essential for maintaining a tidy space. Here are some tips for cleaning your bathroom:

Wipe down the counters and sink daily with a disinfecting cleaner.
Clean the toilet bowl and seat at least once a week with a toilet bowl cleaner.
Scrub the shower and bathtub once a week with a bathroom cleaner.
Sweep or vacuum the floor regularly and mop it as needed.

Tidying Up The Bathroom by Organizing:

Finally, organizing your bathroom can help you make the most of your space. Here are some tips for organizing your bathroom:

Use vertical space by adding shelves or hanging organizers. This will help you maximize your storage space.
Install a towel rack or hooks to keep your towels off the floor and within reach.
Use a shower caddy to keep your shower essentials organized and easily accessible.
Label your storage containers to help you find what you need quickly and easily.

By following these decluttering, tidying, cleaning, and organizing tips, you can transform your bathroom into a clean and organized space that you’ll enjoy using every day.

I personally have a bad habit of placing items that need to be donated in the laundry room behind the door. Out of sight, out of mind, right? Wrong. Delaying decisions means we still need to declutter.

Maybe you have a habit of delaying decisions, too. Let’s decide today where your decluttered items need to go. Do they need to be donated? Disposed of? Don’t delay that decision any longer. If they need to be donated, sort and put them in your vehicle. Then, make a note in your calendar to drop them off at your favorite charity.

As you are decluttering your items, I want you to try not to just move them to another room. You may be tempted to do that. However, resist the urge to keep everything. Decluttering means we actually part with these items. Otherwise, assign those items a permanent home where you can best utilize them.

Easy Steps to Tidying Up The Bathroom:

1.Only spend time on your specific daily task.

2.Do not get side-tracked or distracted.

3.Work within a time of day that you have the most energy and stamina. This is one of the most useful declutter motivation tips. Listen to your body and work at decluttering when you feel the most alert and energized.

4.Avoid thinking too long about whether to keep or discard an item. This is one specific way for How to Be Ruthless When Decluttering.

5.Avoid cleaning during your declutter. The goal is to purge the dead weight. Getting rid of the clutter is your priority. Cleaning can be accomplished later. Read on for more declutter motivation tips and my room specific deep clean checklist, though, as you will begin cleaning after your declutter.

Easy Steps to Tidying Up The Bathroom:

Supplies Needed:

1. boxes -preferably ones you can donate (Avoid plastic storage bins because you may be tempted to just store the items and not part with them.)

2. sturdy trash bags

3. marker/pen to label boxes

Decluttering Tip: Avoid using storage bins to declutter. Storage bins tend to tell your brain to “store” the items for later. That is just delaying decisions. If you aren’t getting rid of items when you declutter, you are not truly decluttering. This is why I recommend a trash bag, also. A trash bag tells your brain to “trash” the item.

Obviously, recycle if you have that option. The boxes you use should be ones you are willing to part with, so I recommend sturdy cardboard boxes. As to donations, there are many charities that will come pick up your items for you at your home.

I use one in particular where you can book an appointment for pick-up online. This is so convenient, as it saves you the hassle of hauling stuff away yourself. Scheduling that pick-up also motivates you to declutter by a certain date.

Minimalist Tips: Easy Steps to Tidying Up The Bathroom:

1. Start by eliminating trash first- use a sturdy trash bag

2. Sort items by category if needed so you can see what you have

3.Get rid of items that don’t work or that work poorly, expired items, anything you don’t love, anything that you’ll never use again

4. Box up the donations and trash/recycle the rest

5.Select a charity to donate your items and schedule the pick-up if that is an option

How Do You Declutter Your Entire House (and get it deep clean?): Need to deep clean?

First, My How to Deep Clean Your Kitchen list can be found here.

Second, My How to Deep Clean Your Bathroom list can be found here.

Third, My How to Deep Clean Your Kids’ Rooms list can be found here.

Fourth, My How to Deep Clean Your Living Room list can be found here.

Fifth, My How to Deep Clean Your Bedroom list can be found here.

You can get your printable Daily Housekeeping Routine and Deep Cleaning Your House Schedule here. This 15 page printable kit is delivered digitally to your email for you to print and personalize. What Does a Deep Clean Include? It includes a daily schedule, calendar pages, and deep cleaning checklists for every room and area of your home. Check out the link above to see a sample page of what you’ll get in my printable set designed to help you create your personal Homemaking Checklist.

Also, you can get the complete digital printable copy of the Year Long Thorough Declutter Series Calendar and Checklists here. The printable digital download is delivered to your email. It includes 25 pages of printable calendar pages and checklists to help you declutter every room in your home. You can find that here.

New to deemiddleton.com and don’t know where to start? I recommend going in this order:

Step 1: Check out this post on the 1st step you should take to get organized. If you don’t have a calendar, you can grab my free weekly printable calendar page here. It is in my shopify store, but it is totally free, so you won’t be prompted to put in any payment information. It is a free download and will be delivered straight to your email.

Step 2: Create a daily Housekeeping Schedule. You can use this series to start to set up your own schedule. You can also use this simplified weekly schedule.If you often ask: What is the fastest way to clean a dirty house? Or, if you struggle to get organized and have tried and failed time and again, you can likely find out which of these 11 reasons cause you to fail to get organized.

Step 3: How do you remove clutter? How Do You Declutter Your Home?.…Sign up for the Declutter Series and get your entire home decluttered in just 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week.”Declutter Your Home” checklists are provided in each email.

Step 4: What is the fastest way to clean a dirty house? Use a timer and use the Deep Cleaning Checklists above. They will help you get your home sparkling after you’ve decluttered.

Interested in becoming a full-time blogger like me? Check out my blogging series. At the top of every page on my blog, you’ll find a drop down menu. Just select the BLOGGING category.