How do you organize your Medicines?

[lovetoscrap]

Something to consider is that supposedly it is bad to store medicine in bathrooms due to the humidity in the room. It will break down the medicine faster and it loses its potency.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007189.htm

Yep. That is why I said it isn't a big deal that we don't have any medicine cabinets. My sister is a pharmacist and would beat me if we stored meds in the bathroom. She did approve DD keeping hers in there and in my bedroom the shower is actually separate from the sink and vanity area so it isn't a problem.

You just have to do it all in one shot to get it over with. I'd say, take a laundry basket and just start dumping everything in there. You need something big and bulky enough to be in your way if you decide to put it off. It's easy to shove a little box into the corner or under the bed, a laundry basket isn't as kind and isn't as easy to step over all the time.

Right now most of it IS dumped in a big rubbermaid box-- bigger than a laundry basket. But I have a lot of floor space in my bedroom so it is easy to put it off to the side and in fact right now is a great place to pile the laundry I haven't hung up yet! Serving double duty. Guess I need to come up with something else to make me get it done. Since DD is sick right now and I can't find anything I need that may be the motivation to get it done. It is certainly the motivation for this thread and my current frustration.

I just cleaned out my Laundry room cabinet hoping maybe I could find enough room in there but not sure I did. Gonna keep thinking about it.

 

[bookgirl]

I don't. They are just all in a drawer. I don't have anywhere that has shelf space to 'organize' the bottles. I have a couple of pills that are every day but during certain months I have other stuff for allergies, then I've had a bad ankle and a neck spasam so that stuff is an as needed. Maybe I just have a lot of pills Anyway so in the drawer then go.

OTC meds are in the drawer.

Bandaids and first aid stuff are in a 'hospital bin' that we got in the hospital and in the cabniet in the bathroom.

 

[C.Ann]

Quite a few years ago, I was given a gift by one of my DstepD's that she purchased at a craft fair.. It's a wooden cabinet - three shelves on half of one side - and on the other side there is a door (with 2 hearts cut out) and one shelf in there separating that part of the cabinet into two nice and tall areas.. I have it hanging on my bedroom wall here at my DD's (no small children and no "visitors" are ever allowed in my room when I'm not here per my DD and her DH).. Tall medicine containers (cough syrups and such) go on the side with the door (fit perfectly) and the pill bottles and such go on the other side with the 3 shelves.. It's really perfect and doesn't take up much room at all.. It's about 15 and a half inches wide, 16 and a half inches tall, and 6 and 3/4 inches deep..

At the lake I have a large shelf space under the cabinet where my dishes and such are (up high enough to not have to worry about small children) and that's where I keep my meds.. However, so I'm not constantly knocking things over looking for a "bottle" as opposed to a "pill container" and such, I purchased two plastic bins at the Dollar Store so I could keep the same "type" of containers in the same bin..

Both work out very nicely - and I don't think the cabinet that was purchased for me (that I use at DD's) cost more than $20 to $25.. I often see similar cabinets in the catalogs from abcDistributing, Lakeside Collection, etc., and they're very reasonably priced..

Maybe one of those options would work for you?

Forgot to add that here at DD's, I always keep a bottle of water next to my bed at night "just in case"..

 

[kimblebee]

I always heard it was bad to keep meds of any kind on top of the fridge because of the heat of the fridge. I have needles that are kept in the fridge. Vitamin D pills are kept by my placemat on the kitchen table so that I don't forget to take them every day. Tylenol, cold meds etc are kept in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom.

 

[Katieinwonderland]

We have a storage container from Staples - it's a plastic cabinet type thing, maybe a foot and a half tall, and a foot wide. It has little drawers, I think three across and five down, made from clear plastic. We don't have any prescription meds, but we keep things like Excedrin, cough and cold meds etc in there. We put labels on the drawers so you can easily see what's in each one without having to root around.

We have ours mounted on the wall in the laundry room - now I'm wondering if that's like the bathroom and you're not meant to keep medicine in there. But ours are basic meds that we can live without, so I guess it isn't too big of a deal.

 

[disykat]

I have a lockable file box I keep in our master clostet with some stuff in it. The stuff we use daily was in a lockable tackle box when the kids were smaller and now resides in the "breadbox" on the kitchen counter.

 

[lovetoscrap]

I have a lockable file box I keep in our master clostet with some stuff in it. The stuff we use daily was in a lockable tackle box when the kids were smaller and now resides in the "breadbox" on the kitchen counter.

I have a few tool and tackle boxes from way back when that I used for scrapbooking stuff. Wonder if I can re-purpose them? I may have to look into that. Sounds like my Christmas break project!