• Organized Chaos: Medicine Cabinet

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    Medicine Cabinet

    The medicine cabinet is in the kitchen.  The items that don’t fit in the medicine and first aid tackle box are placed on the bottom shelf in baskets to keep everything organized.  The cabinet is high enough that the little kids cannot reach it, but is accessible for adults.  We have been using this method for awhile now and it works really well for our family.

    There are 3 different Medicine baskets on the bottom shelf (from left to right):

    1. Miscellaneous
    2. Fever & Miscellaneous
    3. Cold & Allergy

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    Medicine organized in baskets on the bottom shelf

  • Organized Chaos: Medicine & First Aid Tackle Box

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     Our Medicine & First Aid Tackle Box

    I like tackle boxes, but probably not for the same reason as most people.  Some people like them to store their fishing supplies, I like them because they make great storage containers.  We have had this medicine and first aid tackle box for many years.  It has worked very well in storing basic medicine and first aid items.  The medicine and first aid tackle box is stored in our medicine cabinet in the kitchen.  It is within easy reach if you need something, yet not at a level young children can get access to it.

    The top of our medicine and first aid tackle box contains items we only use once in awhile like wrapping, bigger bandaids, poison control items, burn gel, spare thermometers, and a few more items.  The 3 containers with the white stickers is the section we access the most often which we go into further details about what they contain below.   The front right side of the tackle box contains our thermometer and an otoscope (we had kids with a lot of ear infections and this tool has been a huge help for our family).  If you have a kid that gets frequent ear infections an otoscope is well worth the investment!

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    Items in our Head & Stomach Medicine Container:

    • Tylenol 8 Hour
    • Excedrin Tension Headache
    • Naproxin
    • Tylenol Extra Strength
    • Excedrin Migraine
    • Ibuprofin
    • Children’s Tylenol
    • Children’s Ibuprofin
    • Gas X
    • Anti-Diarrhea
    • Draminine
    • Tums

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     Items in our First Aid Container:

    • Eye Drops
    • Antibacterial Cream
    • Drawing Sauve
    • Nexcare Clear Waterproof Bandaids
    • Advanced Healing Bandaids
    • Fun “Kid” Bandaids
    • Small Bandaids
    • Sheer Bandaids
    • Medical Tape
    • Antibiotic Bandaids
    • Large Bandaids
    • Antibiotic Ointment
    • Gauze

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     Items in our Cold & Allergy Container:

    • Cough Drops
    • 4 Hour
    • 12 Hour
    • Kids Cold Medicine
    • Adult Cold Medicine
    • Kids Allergy Medicine
    • Adult Allergy Medicine
    • Decongestion
    • Mucinex
    • Day Time Cold Medicine
    • Night Time Cold Medicine

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     All 3 containers placed in the Medicine and First Aid Tackle Box

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     You can see all 3 containers are labeled – Head & Stomach, First Aid, and Cold & Allergy

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     The containers are in the Medicine and First Aid Tackle Box and ready for when they are needed.

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    The Medicine and First Aid Tackle Box are on the middle shelf of our Medicine Cabinet.

  • Organized Chaos: Storing Our Vitamins

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     Organized Family Vitamins

    We store our family vitamins on the top shelf of our medicine cabinet in the kitchen.  Each basket contains vitamins for our family members.  Jake and I have our own baskets, but Brina and Karlie share a basket containing all their vitamins.

    Once a week I get the vitamins down and refill everyone’s individual vitamin containers for the entire week.  This system has worked pretty well for our family over the past couple of years.  Plus it keeps all the vitamins organized and in one location.  I picked up the baskets on clearance at Staples (they were sold in packs of 3 or more and were a $1 or less).  If you cannot find them at Staples I have seen them around at other stores as well.

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     Our medicine cabinet with the vitamins on the top shelf.