How Much Is Your Medicine Cabinet Costing?

Medicine Cabinets fall into the realm of perpetual status quo. We rarely clean them out, if at all. The FIRST reason to "Tweak" your medicine cabinet is to save you Money and assist with your Health because… Medicine Cabinets are the worst place to keep your medication! 

A bathroom is plagued with wide temperature changes and moisture from hot showers to hair dryers. Every time you open your medication, moisture will get in and on your pills. This will degrade the life of your medications, causing them to crack, crumble, and lose their potency. 

The best location for all medication is in a locked drawer, perhaps your nightstand next to your bed or a drawer behind an out-of-reach cabinet door, such as in the kitchen.

The SECOND reason will again assist with your health and help protect our world's environment because we must… Properly discard all Expired Medicines!

Medicine Cabinets seem to collect and maintain items from years gone by. When my Grandfather passed-over, I helped clean out his medicine cabinet. I found a bottle with a 1940 prescription label. There was still liquid inside called Methyl Salicylate. After some research, I discovered that the clear liquid was used to soothe a cut or relieve an itch. The liquid is also known as Winter Green oil, however, if ingested this liquid can cause death. 

Contact your local S.T.O.P. program or recycling facility. Ask How, Where, and When, they are collecting expired medications. DO NOT POUR liquids down the drain and DO NOT THROW OUT any pills or creams. One way or another those chemicals and medication will find their way into our Waterways and our Drinking Water supply! To learn more about this fact, consider our Water Workshop at GoingTrueGreen.com!

Remove all labels from your medication, tear the paper up and recycle. This must be done today just to help protect yourself from Identity Thief.

After your medicine cabinet has been cleaned out, here is another helpful accomplishment… Place all Toothbrushes inside the Medicine Cabinet!

Every household that keeps their toothbrushes on the sink or countertop should move these toothbrushes into the medicine cabinet for better health. As you know, smells and aromas travel through the air by the process of Diffusion. Bacteria will also travel through the air molecules and land on your toothbrush. The source of this bacteria can be from a sneeze or a flushed toilet when the cover is up. So put the lid down before flushing and keep your toothbrushes in a closed medicine cabinet, because just as the smell of Number 2 travels, so will bacteria.