Easily Organize Small Bathroom Essentials With A Genius Dollar Tree Hack

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Small bathroom essentials are an organizational headache. While there are so many solutions you can use to organize your bathroom, few focus on smaller items like bobby pins and hair bands. Take the matter into your own hands and create a solution with this simple Dollar Tree DIY. With a few affordable Dollar Tree items, you can create a magnetic storage system with individual boxes to keep small items neatly organized.

This hack is great because things like bobby pins and hair ties are hard to keep organized with other bathroom essentials on shelves or in drawers. As a result, they often end up at the bottom of toiletry bags, on the counter, or buried in drawers. Once abandoned in these areas, they can get rusty or soggy. Not only that, but it's really difficult to find them or know how many you have left when they're not all in one place. 

This simple DIY might be the solution you've been looking for. It requires a few supplies, including some plastic snack containers from Dollar Tree. Each pack comes with four containers for $1.25, but you can get more if you need. Still at Dollar Tree, grab some magnetic buttons and a stove burner cover, but don't worry about the decorations as they won't be visible. You'll also need some simple 3M command strips and some adhesive, like hot glue or Gorilla Ultimate Super Glue. At most, this hack will cost you $24. 

Start this hack by using two command strips to attach the burner plate to the wall. Make sure the raised edges face away from the wall and towards you, so that only the plain white interior is visible rather than the decorative side. Next, attach the magnets to the bottom of the small boxes using glue. Once it's dry, fill each container with small bathroom essentials. Attach your containers to the burner plate with the magnet. 

Now, there is a dedicated spot on your bathroom wall that's easy to reach for when looking for these small items like hair ties, baby hair elastics, bobby pins, or hair clips. You can even fit some dental floss, toothpicks, or safety pins in there. 

If the items you're storing are really tiny, you can also skip the magnet-sticking step and get flat magnetic tins from Dollar Tree. Expand this hack further and glue the magnets behind lightweight bathroom items that you'd like to keep out of the way, like a hair comb. For small items that don't fit nicely into a box, consider these Clovanest magnetic tea bag organizers that were originally designed for fridges. There are even some magnetic hooks you can add to the plate to keep some hair ties attached. More advanced DIYers who want something truly custom might consider using some magnetic paint primers to attach the boxes directly to the wall.