Linens and Loos- Monthly challenge wrapup

Here's what I wanted to accomplish when this monthly challenge was given:

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I am going to sort through all my sheet sets, blankets, and towels. I will be getting rid of ones that I don't use and get down to just a bare minimum. 

I want to organize all my spare linens in baskets at the top of my closet. Right now they are just piled and driving me crazy!

I would like a spare set of white sheets for my bed- so I may be finding and ordering one.

I will be reorganizing the bathroom drawers and cleaning them out.

I will be going through all my beauty products and makeup (despite them not living in either my linen area or bathroom) "

Check. Check. Ehh. Check. andddd Check. I accomplished *almost* everything I set out to at the beginning of the month. I am still on the lookout for a spare set of white sheets- but other than that everything else I wanted to do I did!

Here's how the month went:

• I started off by cleaning out my linens
• Then I organized the bathroom
• I cleaned out my samples
• I sorted through my makeup
• I donated extra towels
• I updated my linen storage

Overall, I feel like it was a pretty successful organization month. I can't wait to see what the April challenge is on iheartorganizing! 

Linens and Loo Pinterest-Inspiration!

Since we are still working on our linens and loo organization- I figured I would dedicate todays post to some pretty inspiration courtesy of my pinterest page. These are pictures I found on pinterest that have things organized in a pretty and functional way.

What a great way to organize medicine! If I had to organize more medicine I would definitely implement this system for myself. This system would make it easy to know if you were running low on a certain type of medicine and makes it really easy to go through medicine and toss the expired products.

Nail polish in spice racks is a great idea! Makes it easy to see what you have and organize by color!

This reminds me of the way hair tools are kept at the beauty salon.  What a creative way to organize hair tools!

What a beautiful under sink organization system! I love the baskets for toilet paper and towels, the lazy susan for products and all the containers holding qtips and cotton balls. 

Pretty towel storage =)

Love this vanity! Seems to have the perfect amount of room for makeup storage!

This is such a perfectly labeled and organized linen closet. Man oh man. I'm in heaven.

This just goes to show there are so many ways to organize items in the bathroom and in the linen closet. There's so many brilliant ways that you can easily make it your own!

Some of my favorite organization things in the bathroom and linen closet:

• Baskets- I love the look of them and they keep things tidy while allowing you to toss things inside if you are in a hurry.
• Labels- Labels are so helpful so other people using your space know where things belong and can put things back efficiently.
• Over toilet storage- since bathrooms tend to be tiny, over toilet storage is key. There are so many ways to do it from putting up shelves, using a piece of furniture meant to go over the toilet or hanging baskets on the wall.

Happy organizing!

How many towels do you need?!

Well, my towel shelf wasn't over-packed but I definitely was finding that I had more towels than I needed. I also wasn't using certain towels because they weren't soft and I preferred to use others that were soft and cozy.

I decided to sort through them and get rid of my old set of pink towels, and keep only the towels that were in my newer set and were still soft. 

Here's what I started with: 

I had a total of 6 bath towels, 5 beach towels.

5 face cloths (2 were in the wash)

I also had 5 hand towels. (2 in the wash)

After cleaning out my towel stash- I have ended up with: 5 beach towels (I kept all of these because they are great to have around and I honestly use all of them, especially during the summer), 2 bath towels, 2 hand towels, and 2 wash cloths. There is no reason for me to need more than that since I am the only one using these towels and wash them weekly.

I decided the best thing I could do with these towels is donate them to our local animal hospital. The above picture is one of two bags that got sent off.  A great thing to do with items I no longer need!

Cleaning Out the Linens!

Since March has been officially be dubbed "Linens and Loo" month by Jen over at iheartorganizing, I decided to dive right in this weekend and get my linens organized!

All my linens lived on the top shelf of my closet and were pretty organized but I knew there had to be a few things up there I never used.

I started off by taking everything down- and going through the two baskets I had. There were tons more blankets, sheets, and pillow cases shoved in the back as well. Who needs all that?!

There wasn't a whole lot in the first basket- just some flannel sheets- which I don't really use- but could potentially come in handy. Plus the whole set is there including pillow cases, so those stayed together and are allowed to stay.

I shoved a pink blanket (I swear it is pink-despite the color in the above picture) in the basket as well, since it matches the flannel sheets well and is super soft. Keep!

In the next basket there was my old everyday sheet set, as well as the flannel sheets you can see on the top. I've never used this flannel sheet and am not even sure it fits my bed. So off to the Salvation Army it goes. I kept my old everyday sheet set incase I need to cover a guest bed someday, it will be nice to have.

I also kept a couple of pink sheets at the top. I probably could've gotten rid of them but it is definitely nice to have a backup.

I pulled down the rest of the stuff that was in the corner of my closet. My old comforter, which I will keep as a backup comforter. I have a striped throw blanket which I am keeping, a few curtains that I will hold onto because they match the ones I have on my windows now. Also in this pile were a few pillowcases that I didn't need and a white sheet set with some rips on it, I decided to get rid of both of those.

Minus the comforter I was able to fit pretty much everything I wanted to keep inside the two baskets which is great. 

The pile of things I got rid of was not huge, however I feel good about it. The goal of this project was to go through the items and get rid of what I don't need and that's exactly what was done. 

Doesn't it look better?! I would like to get a basket large enough to fit my old comforter inside. It would look a little more organized then- but for now it works!