Holiday Grand Plan Week 5: Master Bath

Week Five sees us into the master bathroom and linen closets for Master Bathroom Week at the Holiday Grand Plan!

We'll clean and organize personal care and linen storage areas, and continue working on seasonal clothing plans.

Holiday prep continues to move forward on to-make and to-buy gifts, and includes a wardrobe check for kids.

HOLIDAY PREP

• Make one batch of Holiday Goodies.

• Make one extra meal for freezer again labeled HOLIDAY MEAL.

• Buy two canned food items from menus (get 2 of each item, one to use and one to donate to food drive).

• Buy 1/8th of TO BUY gifts. Save all receipts, note return policy before buying. Ask for gift boxes.

• Wrap and label packages. If needing to ship, get some shipping boxes now and store packages in them.

• Work at least 1 hour a day on homemade gifts.

• Take toys and books that are outgrown, clean them up and prepare them for donation to toy drives.

• Make list of toys and books that children would enjoy and that would fit in their rooms and that would work with what they have. Keep it hand for telling family what they would like.

• Inventory clothing and have another list of clothing items needed. Measure the children and put measurements on this list.

CLEANING/ORGANIZING AREA: MASTER BATHROOM AND LINEN CLOSET

This week's assignment, from Katie Leckey's Cleaning Grand Plan:

Go through the medicine chest. Do you really store medicine in here? It is not a good idea to store your medications here as the steam and heat of the showers can affect them. Consider finding a new place. While you rearrange them, throw away the horrible tasting stuff that you do not use and the expired items.

Check your first aid supplies. Do you have enough Peroxide, band-aids, gauze pads, antibacterial ointment? Find a printable first-aid checklist here.

Just look at those towels! Are they torn? In need of replacement? You needed some new rags anyway! Put it on your list to replace. Reorganize the ones you have.

Clean off handles, knobs, light switches. Does anything need replacing?

How about the bathroom mat or carpet? Does it need some spot remover while you go on? Does it need to be replaced?

Clean from high to low. Take down the curtains or blinds and clean them. Vacuum the screens in the windows. Clean the windowsill and wash any knickknacks

Clean the entire bowl. Spray with a good disinfectant. How is your bowl brush? Does it need replacing? A sponge brush works better than a bristle brush here.

Polish all the metal fixtures make them gleam. Get around the bowl and clean spots you have not seen in a while! Open the window while you spray a good mold remover if you need to. Scour sinks and bathtubs, and showers.

Do you need a new soap dish? A decorative hand soap dispenser

Get under the sink. Look at those three bottles of hair spray. Do you need and use all that stuff under there?

Consider purchasing some under the cabinet organizers to give you more storage space and allow you to get things easier. Wipe out the bottom of the cabinet.

Don't stop there. Time to get the drawers now too. Throw away what you have not used.

Does the shower curtain need replacing? Is it really moldy?

Wash out the wastebasket and let it sanitize.

The bathroom scale hasn't been scrubbed in a while. Do it now! Get the baseboards and wipe them down, spray the tile with a good tile cleaner while you are doing the baseboard then wipe the tile down after it had a chance to sit.

Take note and replace, repair all items that need attention.