42 Things in Your Master Bathroom

I know it seems incredible, but there are probably at least 42 Things in Your Master Bathroom! Even when I lumped things together (for example, cosmetics, toiletries, medications), there are easily 42 things that popped into my mind. Who knew that we are so “invested” in our bathrooms?

If you are a new visitor to this blog, welcome! I create lists of 42 items for household inventory purposes. I do this because we lost our home in a wildfire in 2007 (you can read about the loss of our home here: Any Way the Wind Blows) and we weren’t prepared in any fashion, much less with a list of our household inventory for our insurance claim.

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I post these lists with regular frequency and now have more than 50 on this blog that center around things in your home. Plus, I’ve posted several just for fun!

Why 42 and not 10, 25, or 50? It’s my attempt to “brand” my lists because of the “4 Two” in the name of this blog, Toot Sweet 4 Two.

A bit of history about these lists of 42…

Creating a household inventory is an arduous task. In fact, once we moved home to our newly rebuilt home, I started to fret and worry about losing our new stuff as we acquired our new stuff.

One day, in October a few years ago, it was a particularly blustery day. October in Southern California is traditionally warm and beautiful and full of endless blue skies. But, October, too, is traditionally wildfire season (although I think this year, our governor has suggested that all year is wildfire season!).

Anyway, the wind was howling and I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs as I watched tumbleweeds roll past my office window. So, I had a brilliant idea…let’s hire a company to do our new household inventory! And, that way I won’t forget to include our rubber duckies!

I thought hiring a company to do it would be ideal, at least from my perspective. After all, the household inventory I created for our insurance company, after the loss of our home, took me 9 months of working nights and weekends and was 165 excel pages long!

So, I looked up a local company on the web, called them, and made an appointment for them to come out and give us the scoop. Two very nice ladies arrived, well-prepared with their sales pitch, walked around our home, took notes, and then told us they would email us a proposal in a few days.

True to their word, the proposal arrived in a few days. To do a whole-house inventory, they wanted $10,000!

Well, blow me away with my hairdryer! After sputtering and gasping with shock, Charlie and I decided we would just ride it out and hope that “lightning doesn’t strike twice”! So, we thanked them but told them no thanks.

Fast forward a few years, and I was still jumpy as a cat and still didn’t have anything done towards being “pro-active” on this project. So, by taking baby steps and sharing this journey with readers, I now have more than 50 lists of household inventory items, but I’m nowhere near being done!

The beat goes on…

Let’s practice this exercise together right now – the exercise of creating a household inventory list. When I got over the shock that the insurance adjuster told me I needed to submit a personal property household inventory list on an excel spreadsheet AND that it needed to list everything we owned “down to the last toothpick,” I used this visualization technique that he (the adjuster) suggested I do. I closed my eyes and visually entered the room I was working on (remember, our house was no longer in existence; just a shell of rubble and a fireplace chimney).

In this case, let’s pretend I was entering the master bathroom. So, I looked to my left. What was to my left? I wrote it on my excel spreadsheet. Next, what’s on the right? I added those things to the list. What was straight ahead? I added those things to the list.

So, looking at the photo above, what do you see? Lucky ducky – you get to look at a photo and not visualize in your mind! By the way, things like tubs, sinks, and toilets are considered part of your dwelling and not part of your personal property under a homeowner’s policy. Here’s what I see in the photo above starting from the left:

in the corner of the bathtub are one or more bottles
on the left countertop are two plants in two pots
on the right side of the countertop are a soap dish, what looks to be a toothbrush holder, and a soap dispenser
two circular hanging towel rings are above the countertop
two towels are hanging from the towel rings
there’s a mirror
two wall sconces on either side of the mirror
lightbulbs in the wall sconces
a chandelier
lightbulbs in the chandelier
multiple sets of white towels on the open shelving
and what appears to be a toilet seat cover box built into the wall beside the toilet

Twelve things! If you count the stuff I described together in one category, such as on line #3 above, this list has 14 things in it, not including the toilet paper which is out of photo range. And that doesn’t include anything inside the cabinets and drawers!

And guess what? I’m sure there’s soap in that soap dish so that means there are 15 things that one can see in this beautiful blue-tiled master bathroom.

42 Things in Your Master Bathroom

Are you working on your own home inventory project, whether for personal use or as the result of a homeowner’s insurance claim? I’ve created an eBook to help you see it through. The Complete Book of Lists: Room-by-Room Checklists for Your Household Inventory Project combines the 55 lists on this blog plus 20 new lists and rolls them up into on eBook with 75 different home inventory checklists – all for the low price of $9.99! Sure beats $10,000, but you do have to do the work of creating your own inventory yourself, but these checklists make it a bit easier!

Check out the checklists!

Here’s the list of 42 things in your master bathroom to help you not forget “the last toothpick” (this post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read my full disclosure policy.):

Bath sheets
Bath towels
Hand towels
Washcloths
Bath mat, shower mat
Bath rugs
Shower curtain, shower curtain liner, shower curtain rod, shower curtain rings
Window curtains, curtain rods, curtain rings, curtain hardware
Window blinds, shades, shutters, valances
Toothbrushes, toothbrush holder
Bath canisters
Ceiling fan and light
Mirrors: wall, floor, hand
Wall sconces and lamps
Medicine cabinet & wall storage cabinets
Wastebasket
Tissue, tissue box cover
Soap, soap dish, dispenser/pump
Hamper, laundry basket
Cosmetics
Cosmetic bags, cosmetic caddies, cosmetic holders
Blow dryer, hairdryer
Curlers, flat iron, electric shavers
Combs, brushes
Hairpins, hair clips, hair accessories
Toiletries
Bath soaps, bath salts, bubble bath
Shelves, decorative ledges
Paper towels and holder
Magazines, magazine rack and magazine basket
Bath scale
Artwork, prints, posters, photos, frames
Plants and plant containers
Toilet paper and standing holder
Free-standing cabinetry
Towel stand, towel rack, wall hooks, towel bars, towel rings
Chair, bench
Storage baskets, boxes, drawers
Decorative objects, knick-knacks
Drawer & cabinet organizers
Candles, candleholders
Medications: Prescription and over-the-counter

Below are a couple of different Pinteresting photos that you can pin to your Pinterest board so that you have a bookmark to come back to this post at any time. Plus, you can pin the blue rubber ducky above!

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You know, this project doesn’t have to be “after the fact,” i.e., after you’ve had a loss. You can start now and work on your whole house inventory project and be pro-active. An easy way to do it is to take detailed photos of your master bathroom. Open the drawers, doors, and cabinets and take pictures of everything. Then store the photos somewhere offsite like in a safety deposit box.

Plus, there are other ways to use this list, such as: