No. We have a basket that is on a top shelf in the kitchen. We did that when the boys were small.. And even though I am now the shortest person in the house. It remains there. It's a good place for it. Glasses and fridge are in the kitchen. ;)

I have a flat mirror on the wall in the bathroom.

No, not in the bathrooms. Our meds are kept in a kitchen cabinet, except for those that have to be kept in the fridge. My basket of vitamins is on the kitchen island.

yes..but it's more the size of a linen closet, in both bathrooms...dh's is packed! he keeps current pills on one shelf, extra soap, shampoo on another...

I don't keep pills in mine. have a container in the office....first aid stuff and actual linens in mine...I also have a triple mirror one in my bathroom, no medicine...

We have 3 bathrooms, none had medicine cabinets, built in 1984. We added 2 in the master bath, LOVE them! Some day I'd like to replace the mirrored fronts with stained glass.

Edited to add: They store small items, like tweezers, nail clippers, nail polish, A pin cushion w/ needle, small fold up magnifying glass, Asprin, perfume, lip balm, Visine, band aids....

This post was edited by nicole__ on Sat, Mar 15, 14 at 14:41

Nope. My basket of vitamins, etc., is in the pantry.

Our master bath has a pair of pedestal sinks -- big enough for me to wash my hair, and with wide surrounds for soap dish, etc. Over these are what appear to be two framed mirrors, flush with the wall. Behind the mirrors are recessed cabinets with glass shelving and an electrical outlet for charging. The back of the cabinet is mirrored.

There is a large linen closet in this bathroom where I keep towels, toilet paper, larger items, hair paraphernalia, a long-handled scrub brush for the shower floor, etc. On the top shelf are meds.

The back hall powder room has a small medicine cabinet hung on the wall over a pedestal sink. The guest bath has vanity storage under the set-in sink and a framed mirror. The library bath has a pedestal sink and framed mirror. I wouldn't have built so many bathrooms, but the plumbing for three of them existed in the house we tore down. We saved the basement and chimney. The master bathroom was added.

Story: The medicine cabinet in the master bath in our old house had a child-proof lock. DH and I never closed this completely because it was a chore to open it. When movers were packing up our house I entered this bathroom and found the cabinet closed/locked. I opened it and discovered 'someone' had taken several -- not 'all' -- of the pain meds I had left over from a surgery months earlier. He had tipped me off by closing what was never closed. I complained to the crew boss, but for all I knew he took the pills. Now I hide any opiates when there is a worker in the house.

Medicines are not supposed to be kept in bathrooms where the air is humid. I keep mine in the kitchen. I don't have a medicine cabinet in this house but I did enjoy having one in other houses. Good place to keep toothpaste, etc. When I was a kid, our medicine cabinet had a slot in it to deposit used razor blades. They would land between the studs of the house. Much safer than throwing them in a trash can.

Yes, one in the main bathroom and 1 in the master ensuite. Since I don't take many medications I have lots of stuff in there. Bandaids, hair spray & mousse, facial cleanser, lotions, etc.

Yes, I have a mirrored med cab in my full bath. It is full of all kinds of doodads, but not medicine. I have other built in shelves in my bathroom and I keep my one prescription plus pain relievers there. The powder room has a wall mirror, no cabinet. There is a small table with a door and a shelf and I keep a basket of toiletries in there, no medicine.

I also have a large linen closet. There is one plastic container with cold medicine and similar over the counter items on the top shelf. I think they are all expired at this point. I also keep extra body wash, shampoo, soap, lotions, tp in there as well as linens.

All three bathrooms have full width mirrors above the vanities, and medicine cabinets on the walls at the ends facing in. One each in two bathrooms, the master has one at each side. And more cabinetry for towels, cleaning supplies, mega bottles shampoo etc that I refill smaller sizes from, storage in this house is no issue, it has separate linen closets at each end so two.

I keep OTC things in the 'medicine cabinets' for guests convenience, mouthwash, hand lotion, Tylenol, antacids, band aids etc. Toothpaste, floss and new toothbrushes. Magnifying mirrors for those like me who can't see makeup, spinach in teeth, without one. Products more in the way of cosmetic type items in the master.

Any actual prescriptions, vitamins, are in a drawer in my kitchen, near the sink, glasses, water - none are in the bathrooms.

Thank you for asking this. I could NOT figure out why my mom keeps her meds in the kitchen. Low and behold, the glasses are in there. Now it makes sense! Yes, I have a medicine cabinet, and, we take meds into the kitchen so that we have something to take them with there. I guess it does make a lot of sense. I never realized how it might be better to have them there.

Yes, I have medicine cabinets in all three of my bathrooms, but don't keep any medications in them.

No, this house was built in 2005 and neither bathroom has one.

Both of my bathrooms have medicine cabinets with mirrored doors over the sink. Don't keep medicines in them though

Yup, but it's always been for other medicinal items, not pills.

Nope, not a single one. DH uses a drawer for his meds.

No.

I have a decorative small chest, on the top shelf of the cabinet in my bedroom for meds. I fill a weekly pill minder, and that lives on my kitchen counter.

I don't believe in any storage in the bathroom, other than bottles of extra shampoo, conditioner and liquid soap. It is just to humid in there.

Moni

Our 4 full bathrooms do not have medicine cabinets...but they all have 5' long vanities with cabinets and drawers for storage. Plus, they all have large closets for storing stuff.

Our powder room has a pedestal sink with a large medicine cabinet above it.

Hi Rob 333,

Those "glasses" that your Mom keeps in the kitchen - that's as in "spectacles" so that she can see what she's doing, doesn't take the wrong one ... or as in "tumbler", to hold the water that helps make the medicine go down (or, as in the song, to get a spoonful of sugar, to help in that latter purpose)?
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My bathroom has a cupboard for linens, etc. and there's a mirror over the sink.

Toiletries, deodorant, razors etc. hang out on the toilet tank and the window sill above it.

Early in my tenure the landlord asked whether I'd like a medicine cabinet, I said that I didn't think so ... and there's one sitting in its box in the back porch that he'd acquired. I'd thought to suggest that perhaps he install it this (past?) winter ... but it's almost "passed", now.

There's a small mirrored cabinet between the regular cabinets and the window in the kitchen where aunt (diabetic: dead 12 years) and uncle (dead 10 years) kept their medicines and a number of them are still there.

I didn't have medicines until about 4 years ago - didn't even keep a pain reliever, as I never had any. Now my diuretic and warfarin inhabit a small corner of that cupboard.

A while ago, when I had some discomfort prior to a planned tooth extraction, I took one of the outdated super Tylenol ... and in about half an hour the discomfort evaporated ... so I guess that outdated item still worked.

ole joyfuelled

And with the door opened.

We keep prescription medications in the kitchen; "health and beauty" items go in the cabs.

We don't have medicine cabinets. We did in our other house, but we always stored meds in the kitchen.

Yes, but no medicine in them.
DH keeps his soaps, shampor, shaving stuff in his, and mine has toothpaste, soap, hair stuff and curling iron..