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Cleaning your home is a necessary evil. Keeping a clean home takes time, energy, and the right cleaning supplies and tools. To maximize your efforts, your cleaning supplies should be organized and stored for easy access and to stop you wasting money on duplicate items you really don’t need.
Although I can’t promise you’ll ever really enjoy it, you will be more inclined to clean regularly if you don’t have to dig through a jumble of products, or you can find the broom in seconds after organizing your cleaning supplies in a way that makes sense for you and your home.
Taya’s Top Tips for Organizing Cleaning Supplies
Take a few minutes to analyze how and when you clean each area of your home before deciding on the best approach for storing cleaning supplies in your home. What tools and products do you utilize on a weekly basis? Before you start organizing the rest of your things, it’s time to get rid of the ones you don’t use very often.
Evaluate Your Arsenal of Cleaning Tools
Is it really necessary to have every mop, broom, vacuum, and duster you own? Remove duplicated, worn-out, or difficult-to-use tools. Take the time to clean the ones you’re keeping completely, as a dirty vacuum, for example, will only spread dirt and dust everywhere, not help it disappear.
If you have a multi-story residence, there is one exception for duplicates: Having a set of tools for each level of your home makes things easier. However, you should only do this if you have the space to store and organize things properly.
Evaluate Your Collection of Cleaning Products
Under the sink, how many open bottles of toilet cleaner or glass cleaner do you have? Each item should be limited to one. Combine two partially used bottles of the same brand and discard or recycle the empty container. BUT it’s never a good idea to blend cleaning brands or formulations because the components can react in a harmful way.
Look for cleaners that can be used on a variety of surfaces. A separate cleaner isn’t usually required for many cleaning tasks anymore, and there are lots of multipurpose cleaning products that can help you significantly cut down on the sheer number of products you use.
Make cleaning goods with distilled vinegar, baking soda, and a few drops of dishwashing detergent if you want to go organic and save even more money. However, if you’re going to make your own cleaning solution, be sure it’s appropriately labeled.
Evaluate Your Cleaning Supplies Storage Space
Cleaning products don’t always have to be stowed away in the sink. A garage, linen closet, behind a door, or hallway closet may be the best option for you. Cleaning supplies should never be stored where young children, pets, or vulnerable adults can get them, and keeping cleaning materials off the floor is also a good idea.
Cleaning supplies should never be kept near open flames or hot pipes. Cleaning materials should always be kept in a dry, temperature-controlled environment.
Organizing and Storing Your Cleaning Supplies
Use the Vertical Space on Doors
Hooks or spring-activated clamps can be used to hang mops and brooms on the inside of a door. Add hooks lower down for dustpans, dusters, and small scrub brushes, as well as narrow wire or plastic baskets to hold containers. Spray bottles can be hung from a towel bar.
Choose a hanging shoe bag with clear pockets to accommodate cleaner bottles, rags, and brushes for removable storage. Over-the-door storage racks with narrow shelves for supplies are also available, and you can stretch a bungee rope from side to side on the rack if the bottles are too tall to stay in place.
Double Up on Your Cabinet Space
Install a small diameter removable tension rod under bathroom or kitchen sinks, as many cleaning chemicals come in spray bottles and the spray handles will slide over the rod, freeing up space in the cabinet for more storage. A similar concept can be applied to linen closets or laundry room cupboards.
Go Vertical
Head to the closet organization department to look for hanging storage organizers. The ones designed for sweaters are perfect for holding small plastic bins of cleaning supplies. Label each one—glass cleaner, cloths, dusting, bathroom cleaner, etc. You can easily grab the one you need when it’s time to clean.
Use S-hooks over the closet rod to hang mops and brooms. Don’t forget the closet’s wall space. There might just be room to slip in some narrow hanging baskets, like those used for mail or magazines, between the closet rod and the door frame.
Organize Easier Access to Your Cleaning Supplies
To make cleaning your home quicker and easier, make sure that as you organize your cleaning supplies, you do so in such a way that they will be quick and easy to access when you need to. Try one or more of these ideas to do just that:
Use a Lazy Susan turntable in cabinets for easier access to cleaning supplies. This will help you use every product and keep an eye on when it is time to replenish supplies.
A small utility cart is a perfect storage spot for cleaning supplies. Search for one that fits in a closet, behind a door, or between appliances. Use clear acrylic trays or small bins to corral similar cleaning supplies together.
Cleaning caddies are great for shelf storage because you can easily grab one and go. Use separate caddies for bathroom, kitchen, and living areas with the right type of cleaners and supplies in each one.
Don’t Forget That Cleaning Supplies Lose Their Effectiveness
While most cleaning products will last for many months, they do lose their effectiveness as they get older, especially after the seal is broken. Before you buy in bulk, consider your cleaning habits and these “best use by” rules:
- Laundry detergent: Effective for 6 months to 1 year after opening
- Bleach: Loses effectiveness 6 months after opening
- Multi-purpose and disinfecting cleaners: Effective for up to 2 years
- Dishwashing liquid: Effective for 12 to 18 months
Have you resolved to get your Houston home organized this year, but don’t know where to start? Just Organized by Taya can help. We can help you with almost any home organization, office organization and even life organization project you can think of. To get started, book a free 15-minute Zoom consultation here, so we can discuss just how we can help you.
Working with Taya and her team is easy. You can book an appointment easily on her website, or contact her directly at 832-271-7608
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