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NATIONAL ORGANISING WEEK, DAY 7 – MY BLISSFULLY ORGANISED BATHROOM

National Organising Week, Day 7 – The Bathroom

It’s the final day of National Organising Week and I wanted to focus on another busy room in your home, the bathroom.
This room is often under pressure at key times of the day as family members complete grooming routines at the start and end of the day.

What’s cluttering up your bathroom?

a. Towels
b. Toiletries
c. Medicines
d. Other (I’d love to know)
Please respond with your answer a, b, c or d

My Blissfully Organised Bathroom

Today is the final day of National Organising Week for members of the Association of Professional Declutterers and Organisers.

Organising a bathroom will vary from home to home depending on the size of the room, storage, number of users and the variety of items needing to be stored in this space.
When I work with a client on a bathroom declutter I make specific suggestions that work for their individual lifestyle. However, there are some general principles that you can adopt to help you get more organised, whether you have a large family bathroom, small en-suite or downstairs WC.

How to reorganise your bathroom in 5 easy steps?

Once you’ve got a better understanding why your bathroom has become cluttered you can now focus on what you can and should store in this space. Decide what you need on display and what can be stored away. For an uncluttered bathroom, you need to store less stuff. Sinks or showers crowded with products look very busy and will make cleaning the bathroom more time consuming.

Step 1: Remove all contents from the sink and storage units in your bathroom.

Step 2: Decide what you need to keep in this space. It’s useful to ask yourself the following questions to help you make decisions.

Do I Need It? Do I Like It? Do I Use it?

Step 3: Remove surplus items – items that belong in other rooms in your home; gifts that you have received but won’t use, surplus supplies (toothpaste, soap, shower gel etc.) extra cleaning products and expensive beauty products that you no longer use.

Step 4: Throw away any old or broken items. Any unopened toiletries can be donated to local food banks who need key supplies for families in need (shower gels, shampoo, conditioner soap, toothpaste)

Step 5: Review your current storage. Is it effective? Does it allow you to store everything in this room effectively? Do you have lots of small storage cupboards that are taking up valuable floor space? Cupboards where products can be screened away from view will create a less cluttered look.

I’ve really enjoyed sharing s few of my top tips with you this week. I hope that you have found them useful.

Lets keep organising!

Tracy Ross
Professional Organiser

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  • Tracy helped my young girls and I declutter before a house move. In particular I was impressed with how Tracy got on well with the girls (7 yrs and 3 yrs) straight away and explained the sorting process simply. This has had a lastly impact on my children, getting them to appreciate you can’t keep everything!! I too enjoyed spending focused time with Tracy looking at my wardrobe. I will definitely be implementing the learnings for my clothes purchases such as reducing my tendency to buy some items in too many colour ways! Thank you Tracy for all your help. Jo

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    August 25, 2020

  • I first met Tracy in 2019. I live overseas and wanted to help my Mother clear a downstairs room to become a bedroom, I needed a gentle, trusted professional to complete the task after I had returned to my home. We all met and agreed upon a plan, but it was not to be as my Mother’s health deteriorated very quickly and she passed away. Although I did return to the UK a few times that year, decluttering wasn’t a priority. Then Covid put an end to my being able to return. Finally, in spring of this year, flight restrictions were lifted and I saw an opportunity to return to the UK, now faced with the task of clearing the family home. I contacted Tracy and thankfully, despite short notice, she had some free days to help me. We arranged 6 days throughout my 2 1/2 weeks to help me stay on track and motivated. Tracy helped me stay focussed and helped me believe we could achieve a fairly daunting task of going through a lifetime of memories, papers, photos and possessions. I had to be very disciplined about what was kept as whatever I chose to keep was to be shipped back to my Country. Tracy gave me time to tell a story about an item and why it made the “keeper”, or “think about it” pile, yet didn’t break stride in her work whilst listening. It was a very cathartic process. I felt like I was talking to a long time friend. She has a talent for putting you at ease, and for helping you see objects with a critical eye. Not once did I feel she was making the decision, more that she helped me verbalize my attachment, or not, and that really builds a bond of trust. After each session, I had “homework” to complete before we met again and a follow up email charting the successes of the day and the plan for the next session. As I was on my own during my stay in my family home, this could have been rather lonely, but knowing that Tracy was coming, both broke up the monotony of going through endless boxes and kept me on task such that the job was successfully completed.

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    May 9, 2022

  • Tracy is exceptional at what she does and is generous in what she gives. Highly recommend.

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    February 23, 2022

  • Tracy has helped me many times over the years, and I think I must have known her for 10 years now! When I first contacted her I had reservations about letting someone into my home, making judgments and telling me what I should do. But Tracy's service is NOT like that at all. She did a full home audit and we chatted about what I hoped to achieve. For years I'd been frustrated by our storage area, a large room under the house which was hard to access and full of things we hadn't seen for years. We agreed to tackle it and Tracy suggested that to start with, we took everything out. I thought she was completely mad at this point. Three hours later we had done just that, assessed what was there, got rid of some of it, sorted some and made plans for the rest. It was like a massive weight had lifted from my shoulders. After that she helped me organise rooms, and filter through boxes of stuff. More recently she helped me prepare for a big move. It's always an absolute pleasure to see Tracy and she is very thoughtful in her approach. Her service is life changing and I am very grateful that I contacted Tracy all those years ago. Contact her now, you honestly won't regret it.

    thumb Clare Suttie
    June 11, 2020

  • Tracy is amazing. We were renovating our house and finally was able to plan some extra storage. Tracy helped us to plan out new fitted wardrobes and then came back a few months later to help me get into a system with my laundry ( one of the things as a family I find hard to keep under control! ). She is kind, non judgemental, motivational & inspirational! I would say most people could do with a bit of Blissfully Organised in their lives!

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    December 14, 2020