Organizing Medicines

**monkeywrangler71** · 05-19-2010, 09:55 AM

Spinoff of what Libby posted in the medicine cabinet thread.

How do you keep your medications organized?

We have a little plastic storage tub with a lid that I keep in the top shelf of the linen closet, out of reach of the kids. I used to have two, one for colds and allergies and one for everything else. Then I went through them one day and found most of it was expired, so I cleaned them out and combined them into one.

**krbshappy71** · 05-19-2010, 10:06 AM

I just have two categories: sick or injured.

Sick is cold medicines, stomach medicines, fever medicines, etc.

Injured is first aide stuff including oinments for burns, cuts, etc.

**Libby** · 05-19-2010, 10:57 AM

My answer from the other thread:

I keep my vitamins and rx meds in a bin on the top shelf of a closet.

I still like the idea of the lock box (from the article) if you have children but the only prob with a lock box is that its portable

What are the Safest Ways to Store Medications?

**kittykatstrong** · 05-19-2010, 11:06 AM

I keep alot of the medicine above the fridge. The kids cant reach it and I never put anything up there anyway.

**Neeley** · 05-19-2010, 12:13 PM

Our kids are teenagers, can take their own medicines without adult supervision, so keeping them out of their reach is no longer an issue. With that said, I am the shortest person in our family and they are out of my reach.

We keep them in a Rubbermaid box above the stove. It is a small, awkward cabinet, perfect for storing meds.

All first aid items are kept in the laundry room on the top shelf of my storage shelving in a Rubbermaid box.

The only thing we keep down low is the Abreva. It is so tiny and DS uses it enough that it is kept in the corner of a lower cabinet.

I clean out expired meds every two to three months.

**dcompton** · 05-19-2010, 02:58 PM

Mine are all in the hall closet. The prescriptions and things I take daily are in a box that I can cart to the table to fill the daily/weekly pill box things. Everything else, meds and first aid and extra of the daily stuff (like calcium) are just on the shelf.

**Palooka** · 05-20-2010, 10:35 PM

Mine is on the top shelf of the linen closet.

Vitamins in a basket up high in the kitchen cabinet and my one daily med.

**frugalfranny** · 05-21-2010, 12:18 AM

I will be watching this as I might find a better way than all the wrong stuff I am doing now......

.....but I don't have kids to worry about, so that is a plus.

**Buc-O-Mama** · 05-24-2010, 06:40 PM

We have a little desk built into the kitchen cabinets. Above it, in the cabinet on a shelf I have one storage box with all the over the counter/first aid stuff. Next to that I have another container with all of our 16 yr. old DD's prescription stuff in it.

Taped inside the cabinet door, I keep an updated list of all her drugs, when and how she takes them along with the list of her doctors/conditions. She takes a ton of stuff and has special needs so if anything happened to me, my family could figure it all out. I also have a basic first aid print out hanging there too.

Twice a year I weed out all our old, expired medications. I like to do it in May (before hurricane season) and October (before flu season). That way I can survey what we really do have/need. Nothing is worse than thinking you have allergy pills but then realizing they expired two years ago. When someone's having a reaction you don't want to play with expiration dates. Learned that one the hard way.