Sometimes you hear about people who have lived in their home for years and one day they discover a secret hidden room. I had a tiny taste of that yesterday.
Yup. I was looking at one of those obsessive crazy-lady home-organizing websites, and it had a section on how to declutter your medicine cabinet.
“Hmmm,” I thought, “My house doesn’t even have a medicine cabinet.”
Later I was in the bathroom and I suddenly realized that the three mirror panels, which are flush against the wall, actually open up to reveal a recessed medicine cabinet! The only thing in it was a thermometer, so I immediately decluttered it into the garbage can.
Lovely, & enough space in the bathroom is really handy.
I’m assuming that wasn’t a mercury thermometer you junked, right? Because that would not be cool.
Uhhh…maybe it was…but it’s just in the wastebasket, I can still snatch it back from the landfill! (What’s the proper way to dispose of it?)
Oh God. Now I’m thinking about the old thermostat that I decluttered when I installed my programmable one. I just threw it away this morning. Should I snatch that back too?
http://www.ec.gc.ca/MERCURY/EN/md.cfm
Wow – I didn’t know thermostats had mercury:
http://www.ec.gc.ca/MERCURY/SM/EN/sm-mcp.cfm?SELECT=SM#TS
As for hazardous waste, this is the City of Ottawa’s page I think
http://app01.ottawa.ca/takeitback/Background.do?lang=en
that said – it might be just an alcohol thermometer in which case no biggie
I must say, that’s a pretty cool mirrored medicine cabinet, but for a truly “secret hidden space,” check out my company’s website for a recessed medicine cabinet hidden behind a picture frame door. No one will even know it’s there!
http://www.ConcealedCabinet.com