We recently had a situation where a pipe leading to our geyser burst.

Can you imagine the damage?!

The diningroom was flooded and so was our bathroom, which resulted in a messed-up bathroom vanity.

The guys finally came to replace the vanity and because of all the unpacking and repacking, I decided to reorganise the cupboard.

I had our medicines in two cooler bags like these and now they’re all organised in one of my favourite organising tools, Ziploc bags, like this:

My categories are in the order – most used to least used

• painkillers
• cold and flu – I swear by Degoran and it goes EVERYWHERE with us
• Marcia’s stuff
• Dion’s stuff
• skin (sunburn – remember we live in Africa, other burn (I have a tendency to burn my arms when I’m too quick removing things from the oven) and mosquito repellant)

Here you can see them peeking out of one of the drawer’s.

Where and how do you store your medication?

Dion and I have been together for 15 years today! Married for 12 1/2 of those years

A reader emailed this question:
How do I sort out a medicine cupboard? How do I store the contents? What do I keep in a first aid box in a family situation?

Lots of great questions!

1. First off, I would unpack everything and clean the cupboard.
2. While the inside of the cupboard is drying, go through all the medicines and throw away any that have expired. When you repack them, put those that are about to expire in the front.
3. I only have one smallish bag for all our stuff because we’re not sickly. I have Strepsils, Cepacol, Degoran (my favourite – now I sound like a druggie), Nurofen, Panado, burn ointment (because I always seem to burn myself when I use the oven), Tabard, Imodium, cold sore ointment, plasters and Savlon, Norflex and something for gastro cramps.
4. I have a separate travel medicine bag (an old make-up bag) with just a few of each of these main things. I set up this little bag after we once drove 40km to the nearest town for medicines on one long weekend away. Lesson learnt thanks to Lichtenburg!

this looks a bit messy but it’s not really – I think it’s my bad photography

My medicine cabinet is the corner bathroom vanity cupboard and it has five main sections…

1. medicine (grey bag)

2. Dion’s toiletries (top blue basket and little round thing)

3. cleaning stuff (green basket)

4. extra toilet rolls and air freshener (not visible in this pic)

5. all the bath stuff (bottom blue basket and top right) (candles, bath salts, bath foam, etc) because this is the only bath we have in the house. Our en-suite only has a shower.

I think first aid boxes vary according to your family’s needs so I would buy a standard one and customise it for my family’s needs.

What do you keep in your first aid box?