Lego Organization

If you have kids, there is a very good chance that they have a bunch of Lego.  My son, as an abundant amount of Lego.  I have over the years attempted to organize his Lego for him, but never quite like this.

We had an old TV console which we were not using, as we got rid of the second Television.  So I opted to use it for my sons Lego.  It gave him a work surface and also a couple of drawers to store his Lego.  As the years progressed I got tired of having the Lego in our rec room and decided to rearrange his room and move the Lego to his room, with the console.

We spent approx. 45 minutes going through the 3 tubs of Lego that he had from before, which we had originally sorted in categories.  This time I decided that the smaller pieces would be better sorted in a small container with dividers, since the small pieces are always so hard to find, and he had so many of the same kind.  Here is the container which housed his small items at first. 

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.