Day 33: First Aid Kit

May 3, 2013April 24, 2017

What: First Aid Kit

Why: Do you ever have it when you are looking for a certain type of medicine and can’t find it? Or your child comes in from outside with a cut and you can’t locate the Neosporin and band-aids? Maybe you are going on vacation, but realize you need a first aid kit, but don’t want to take the whole bathroom with you. It is easy to have too much, even when it comes to first aid items. We buy more bandaids when we already have 3 different kinds. We buy travel size ointments and hand sanitizers every time we go on a trip, but don’t ever end up using them. They all just cause clutter in the bathroom cupboards! First aid kits come in handy because you know exactly where to go for an item. Plus, who has time to waste when looking for an item when the person is needing aid!

How:
1. Top 30 items you should consider putting in a FIRST AID KIT:

Ace bandage
Band-aids
Benadryl cream
Bug spray
Butterfly strips
Caladryl
Cleansing wipes (alcohol swabs)
Clear eyes
Cold pack
Contact solution and case
CPR Pocket Mask
Dramamine
Excedrine
Gauze pads
Gauze rolls
Gloves
Hand sanitizer
Ibuprofen
Immodium
Mole skin
Neosporin
Pepto-Bismol
Scissors
Sudafed PE
Sunblock
Tape (athletic and medical)
Thermometer
Tic remover
Tums
Tweezers

2. Find a plastic container to put all of the items

3. Make a list of everything you have in there so that when you go through it every year, you will know what you are missing.

4. Whatever you have not used in a few years and think you will not use, get rid of it. Your first aid kit should only have the necessities.

5. These are also items to keep in your bathroom as well.

Confession of the Day: I used to clog our bathroom cupboards with so many different “first aid” items. I would keep every sample and everything that I could possibly need someday. Then my husband had a great idea of keeping it all in one place and making a list of everything in that box, so that everytime we went on a trip, we could look at that list and figure out if we had the item or not. It was a wonderful solution to cupboards that were cluttered. If you do not have a first aid kit, I would suggest making one. You can’t have to keep them all in one bin, but it just makes it easier when looking for something.

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