Spring Cleaning: Bathroom Cleaning Caddy RAVE!

I'm sure you're probably getting tired of these cleaning posts, so I promise this is my last cleaning post for the week.

We have 2.5 bathrooms in our house - two upstairs and a powder room downstairs. Until now, I've been making multiple trips back & forth between the bathrooms to haul around these cleaners. It's always been a pain, but for whatever reason I never thought to do anything differently. Well, it hit me last weekend - CLEANING CADDY! Not sure why it took me that long to come up with such a simple solution...oh well! 

One family trip to Target later, I found this awesome caddy...handle, plenty of space for cleaning products, and a separate place for paper towels. Perfect!

In case you're wondering, this is the company that makes it.

All the cleaning products fit perfectly with room to spare!

A top view (in case you're really curious).

Fits perfectly under the guest bathroom cabinet with the toilet brush & plunger. 

Not glamorous, but that's life!

Spring Cleaning: Under the Kitchen Sink

Have you taken a peak under your kitchen sink lately? If you're like me, it could be a bit scary! I decided it was time to clean out & organize underneath there. I started by taking everything out and what was left was pretty gross.

I vacuumed all the dust & debris (leftover from our kitchen renovation), wiped it down with a bucket of Lysol solution, and used the handy magic eraser on the tough spots.

Next, I needed to tackle all the junk I pulled out of there. I threw away some things (old sponges, cleaners we don't use anymore, etc) and lined up everything else that needed to be sorted. Here's what didn't get thrown out...

There was obviously WAY too much stuff underneath the sink! I sorted these into two groups: items to stay under the sink and items to go somewhere else.

After the cleaning and organizing, here's what's left. I just love the sparseness!

Our hand & dish soaps are by the sink, I only need easy access under the sink to the dishwasher detergent and the cleaner for our appliances. 

I did keep a few other things underneath, but they are tucked away in a corner because they aren't needed very often.

Of course, I still had all these products to deal with...

they scattered about the house into my canning box (a bottled brush helps clean a yucky canning jar so easily!), paint supplies, and the big cleaning product basket on the top shelf of the laundry room.