Day 33: First Aid Kit

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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:

  1. Ace bandage
  2. Band-aids
  3. Benadryl cream
  4. Bug spray
  5. Butterfly strips
  6. Caladryl
  7. Cleansing wipes (alcohol swabs)
  8. Clear eyes
  9. Cold pack
  10. Contact solution and case
  11. CPR Pocket Mask
  12. Dramamine
  13. Excedrine
  14. Gauze pads
  15. Gauze rolls
  16. Gloves
  17. Hand sanitizer
  18. Ibuprofen
  19. Immodium
  20. Mole skin
  21. Neosporin
  22. Pepto-Bismol
  23. Scissors
  24. Sudafed PE
  25. Sunblock
  26. Tape (athletic and medical)
  27. Thermometer
  28. Tic remover
  29. Tums
  30. 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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