Josip Sesar

The bathroom is a small room that gets a lot of use. It needs special control. That basically means getting rid of the clutter. Bathrooms differ markedly. They range from those with ample drawers and ample cabinet space to those with no storage room at all except a small medicine cabinet over the sink. If a person is a kind of busy, it hardly matters how much space there is because all surfaces and spaces will be overused and cluttered. The trick is to pare down all the junk—makeup, hair curlers, blow dryers, brushes, and so forth.
Many of these items should be stored in other places. My medicine is in the kitchen; my curling iron and blow dryer are on hooks in the hail closet. My makeup is in plastic shoe boxes in the hail closet. Some of these things should be moved to bedroom closet shelves or dresser drawers.
A woman at my self-help group was sharing her foray into the bathroom. “I spent two weeks camping in the Rockies recently,” she said. “I had only one little cosmetic bag of makeup and every day I looked beautiful. When I got home, I asked myself why I needed this room full of lipsticks, creams, and lotions. So I got rid of them, and now my bathroom is wonderful to be in!”
Somewhat sheepishly she added, “I didn’t throw them out exactly. I packed them in a box and put them away.” Well, at least it was a good beginning. Her mind is adjusting to their going, but it’s hard to get rid of cosmetics because you have to throw them away. (Nobody wants to adopt used cosmetics!)