Store and Organize Bathroom Towels
By Karen
Porter,
Editor
EasyHomeOrganizing.com
♦It's time to organize your bathroom towels. First, inspect your hand towels, bath towels and beach towels. Use
scissors to remove all hanging threads. Which towels have multiple tears or
holes? Those are rags. Stuff them into a single bin with a lid or a wide
cylindrical planter and put it in the garage or laundry room. Attach a big label
to the bin front that says "rags". Use these rags to clean spills, wash the car,
and dry the dog after a bath.
♦Of the remaining bath and hand towels, do you have any
matches? Set aside two to four matching sets for guests. Put these towel sets in a pretty
basket, cylindrical planter or other decorative container. You can fold and
stack the towels in sets on top of each other or you can individually roll each
towel and put each vertically in the container. Add some mini bath
toiletries, wrapped soaps and a portable travel-size blow dryer. Put this container in a
corner of your guest bathroom or bedroom. Tell your family "hands off" these
towels--otherwise you won't have any nice ones for guests.
♦Or another option is to put your guest towels and accessories
on free-standing racks in your guest bathroom such as an etagere (you can find
some nice ones at
♦But if you have floor space, consider using a Graduated-shelf Étagère
or Bathroom Shelf
Towers in your bathroom. If it's a graduated shelf design, put
your decorative soaps and guest shampoos on the small shelf; put folded wash
cloths on the next smallest size shelf; put folded hand towels on the medium shelf; and
put folded bath
towels on the widest shelf at the bottom.
♦Fold the remaining towels and put them in stacks on closet shelves between
adjustable shelf dividers. A set of four 12 inch by 12 inch
White Shelf Dividers S/4 at
Lillian Vernon
costs about $10.00. You can   use
these dividers in your hall linen closet too--just put two side-by-side to fit
the space and keep stacks of towels from tipping onto each other---especially
useful when a family member decides to pull a favorite towel from the middle of
the stack instead of the top towel.
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