Where do you store your medicine?

lmdbww

Right now we have all of our meds in the medicine cabinet in our master bath, and DD's meds are in a box on the very tippy top shelf of her closet.

When we move, it looks like the medicine cabinet is in the powder room on the main level of our house and i'm not sure that I like that... For some reason I'd feel better if they were not in a place that anyone could just look through them.

Curious what others do.

emjacobs13

A lot of medicines are actually unsafe to store in bathrooms due to the constant temperature changes and high moisture.

We have our medicines in plastic shoe boxes (no lids) in the cabinets next to the pantry.  Its an upper cabinet so whenever we do have kids its not easy for them to get to. 

Also guests are less likely (imo at least) to go searching through kitchen cabinets to find your drug stash

sugardumpling

we keep some in fridge and others in cabinet in kitchen.  don't have medicine cabinets in bathroom.

 

LexiMS

We keep ours in a kitchen cabinet, they are not organized at all, but DH takes a few things every morning and we have lots of supplements so like to have them in kitchen and take them with breakfast.

emoflamingo

We keep most of them in a basket in the linen closet on the second to the top shelf (out of DS' reach). Some of DS (like allergy medicine, Tylenol) are in the kitchen on the top shelf of the spice cabinet where I can only reach with a step stool.

Bluesmoothy

I don't have a linen closet in my master bathroom (!) so I put them on the top shelf of the kid's huge linen closet in their bathroom.

KickinWingg

In a basket in our linen closet.  Any medicine I have for my DDs (like baby tylenol) is kept in our travel bag so that I always have them with me if I need them.

day lilies 08

A plastic box with no lid inside the upper kitchen cabinet next to the sink. It is on the top shelf where I have to barely stand on my tippy-toes to reach it so I know DS won't be able to at this age. I have always kept mine in the kitchen near the sink bc that is where I usually take them anyway - with a glass of water standing at the sink...

 ETA: I have medications that I take daily. If I didn't I don't know if I would keep them quite so handy - maybe, maybe not.

Rock-n-Voll

We have a skinny little closet in the hallway of the second floor with multiple wire shelves in it.  I bought a bunch of those clear plastic shoeboxes from The Container Store and went to town with a label maker.  One box has medicines and other first aid stuff in it, another has travel-sized toiletries, another toothbrushes and toothpaste, etc.  They stack neatly and I love how organized that closet is since I did this.

 

brianabrad

We currently store ours in a clear box in the linen closet. Interesting to read that some shouldn't be stored in the bathroom due to temperature change. I'll have to figure out what we do with them after our move because I had planned to put them in the linen closet cabinet in our master bath.

4cats4us

I store ours in a clear shoebox in the linen closet, in the master bathroom.  We have a fairly good size bathroom, and always leave the door open when we shower, so there's not really a problem with temperature changes or anything.

lmspharmd

I also recommend not keeping them in bathroom because of humidity and temperature -- by the stove is also bad. I keep them in our bedroom now but may do the pantry in the new house. I have two of the sterilite 3 drawer desktop organizers so I can keep them separate by type (I think I have analgesics, allergy, GI, cough and cold, first aid, and eye/ear). I have an open top bin for bigger stuff like my spacer, sinus rinse, etc.