Minimizing shower clutter

Since we have completed the new shower in our bathroom upstairs, I have found that we did not incorporate any areas where to store all the shower items, like soap and shampoo.

I also like to purchase the large bottles of shampoo and conditioner when they are at a good price, as it is much cheaper.  These large bottles end up sitting on the shower floor and don't look very nice.  We also end up putting all of our shower items on the ledge of the shower, which also look very ugly.

So I went to Winners and purchased these metal baskets, which adhere to the wall with suction cups.  They hold quite a bit, that is if the items are small.  If your family is like ours, everyone likes a particular body wash and/or shampoo.  This creates a lot of clutter in the shower.

I have thought about possibly leaving all items out of the shower and then remembering to grab what you need before you go into the shower.  Well, this never happens, as we are not used to it.  So we end up having to get out of the shower dripping wet looking for our toiletries. 

So after purchasing those wire baskets, it alleviated most of the clutter, with the exception of the large shampoo and conditioner bottles and the large number of body washes that we have.  So I went to the dollar store and purchased those small travelling plastic bottles and now I just refill as needed.  It keeps everything off the floor.

  

 

As you can see, I have put the body washes in the pump bottles and then the shampoo and conditioner in the squeeze bottles.  I was lucky that my shampoo and conditioner where different colours, so it's easy to remember which one is which.  You could always paint the bottles to differentiate one from the other.   As you can see, we kept the smaller bottles of body wash in their original bottles.