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Hi friends. It's me, Simply Cherie,
helping you stop living in chaos
one organizing project at a time.
In this video, I'm going to show you
how to organize a Get Well Care Cart.
It is a get well care
package, but on a cart.
And it's on a cart so that it's
movable wherever you are laying down or
sleeping or sitting when you are
sick or when a loved one is sick.
You can just move this cart and take
care of that person or yourself with all
the things that you've provided.
Before we get into the video,
I wanted to give you a heads up that
September is National Preparedness Month.
You can go to ready.gov and get a
lot of information, some ideas, kits,
and bags to put together. So on my
channel in the month of September,
I'm going to show you more ways and ideas
of how to prepare for your family in
different types of emergency
scenarios. This is our family room.
It is to the left of the kitchen. You
can see over here in the kitchen nook,
I'm already preparing stuff for
the next stock-up haul to show you.
That's our dachshund, Molly.
And we keep my husband's the books here
on the bookshelves. He loves books,
and we've managed to whittle
them down to these two shelves.
And we just go ahead and
keep it this way out.
Visually, I would prefer that they're
behind closed doors, but it is what it is.
And then at night we just try to
tidy up the family room and keep
it looking like this.
Over here in the corner is where
we keep the Get Well Care Cart.
And you see that it fits
perfectly in this space.
It also serves as a side table
for anyone sitting over here to
put their glass, or maybe a
small plate of food. Hi, Molly.
Hi, Molly. Hi.
How are you? Can you say hi?
Can you say hi? Hi.
I chose this white
carcartd. It's from Amazon.
You can find a whole bunch of
them. They're all over Amazon.
Pretty much about the same
price from the $30 to $45.
There are more expensive ones
and most of them are three tiers.
There are four-tier ones. I went
ahead and got the three-tier,
and I had thought that
this part was metal,
but it's actually plastic
because my other one is metal.
The one from Ikea, the
Raskog. Now it is fine.
I wanted the magnetic cause you
can always use magnets to put stuff
on the sides of these trays.
And then I did want one that had this
handle so that you could push it around.
Example,
if the person you are taking
care of or the one who
is not well, or maybe even yourself,
you can push it over there to the couch.
if they're lying down on
the couch or to the bed,
or maybe they're going to be sitting in
that chair. Wherever you need it to go,
you could just push it there.
The essential oil diffuser
is plugged right now,
so I don't want to push it too far. Okay.
So what I wanted to do
was on this top tray,
it's going to be the things that
the person needs to access the most.
So I have here tissue, their glass,
and I have this acrylic
one I've had for years.
And I wanted acrylic because
you know, when you're sick,
you just don't want to hold
things that are too heavy.
And definitely an essential oil
diffuser. I like one with a light.
Let me turn this on. Can you see? Oh,
it's so much better with the light.
There's something about the light. Okay.
And then I also got a set of organizers,
specifically for a cart from Walmart.
It comes in a box like this by
the craft section, you know,
by the cards and the party supplies.
It has this bag hooks
and these cup holders,
or kind of holders that go on the side.
And the hooks open enough.
So you could see the thickness of
this, that it will fit on there.
You just have to push it in.
So on top I have also this
tissue holder that's on its
side, and I got this on Amazon because
I wanted something where let's say,
you want to put your eyeglasses
here or your ear buds.
You just want to place something
on top there, even your cell phone.
And it also has these two
side areas here where I keep
the hand sanitizer and some wipes
here. You can also put your cell phone
there. You can put anything here, right?
So I like that it has these
extra compartments versus just
having a regular tissue holder
or a box of tissue. Again,
I'm thinking about what does the
person need to access the most?
So here I have place where
you can put your drink.
This Sprite Ginger is actually really
good. You could put some fresh fruit.
You can put a little plate of
fresh fruit there or their food,
and you can even move
this diffuser on top of
that. So it gives more space
over here. On this second tier.
I have bags for each of
us where we have vitamins,
hand sanitizers, different
things for each one of us.
Have here also crackers for
the times we have tummy aches.
And in the bottom tier here,
we have meds and vitamins.
And also this box has a thermometer
and pads like heat pads, Biofreeze.
Then here I have another melanine bowl.
I just put it upside down
like that. And then some soup,
just a reminder that I can serve
soup or they can have this soup.
And then here is a little
trashcan, which I love,
was from Amazon. And the nice thing
is that it has this container.
You don't have to put a bag.
So it's just easy access for,
let's say tissues or trash
that the person can just,
your family member can
just throw in there. Now,
the other thing you can do is if you
want it to be more accessible for them,
you can put it on top here and then it
would be easier for them to throw the
trash there. If not, you know,
they can reach down and put it here
instead of it being in the back,
you could pull it forward
and make it more accessible.
So this is just to show you this space
that is up here. You can fit a bowl.
You can fit another glass.
Maybe they want a cup of
tea or some hot cocoa.
Definitely some ginger tea is probably
what we usually serve when we're not
feeling so well. I have here
two choices for essential oils.
I just kept them in the box. It
just makes it easier to read.
When you take them out of the
box, they're a little bit shorter.
So you want to kind of be
able to read it from here.
I always get one that is for
breathing. And then another one,
either tea tree oil, lavender,
peppermint, something that smells good.
In this photo box I got
from Hobby Lobby years ago,
it's held up well.
It has extra meds and vitamins.
Of course I can always grab the meds
and vitamins from my first aid cabinet.
I'llink the video up in the i-cards above.
So it's basically like
these things Mucines,
vapor rub, an all natural
one, Tylenol, Aleve, Advil.
Also here's some cough syrup,
some vitamins there, okay.
Aspirin and vitamin E or
whatever you need for your
family.
So you can always keep
this empty and whatever is
needed for that particular sickness
or condition, or, you know,
that temporary thing, you
just throw it into this box.
So it's just accessible there. So the
way I put this together was I've always,
whenever one of my
family members was sick,
I used to always put things on a
tray next to them and, you know,
they would go from the couch to their
bed. And so I was always moving the tray.
And so I thought, okay, let me
think let me put something together.
That's just more moveable.
So that's what I thought of,
and then whatever you need for yourself
when you're feeling sick or your
family's feeling sick,
put it here on that,
on the cart.
So example last December through January,
I had bronchitis for
like nine weeks. Okay.
And I usually get bronchitis every
year. I skipped a year last time,
which I was so grateful for, but
I was going into my ninth week,
and it was horrible, but
I still kept working.
And then this thing happened, you know,
and I was like concerned and anyway,
it just, it finally went away.
So I was so grateful for that.
And so when I was thinking at that
time, what did I need at that time?
I needed Fishermen's
Friend. I needed Mucinex.
I needed lots of tissues.
I needed ginger tea. Gosh,
and just a lot of comfort.
So that's what I thought of when
I was putting this cart together,
what do you need? What does your family
need to be comfortable, to get well,
to eat, to drink, you
know, to stay hydrated.
That's what you put in here.
In this photo box that I got
from Hobby Lobby a long time ago,
I have just labeled it thermometer
and pads with my label maker.
That is pink washi tape.
And inside is a contactless
thermometer. And this works pretty well.
I'll put a link in the
description box below,
but you just point at
it and pull the trigger.
And it has a very good reading.
It has also a memory and then you
can use it again right after on
somebody else. And when I mean,
pads, it's more like this,
like a heating pad that you
feel with warm water or cold.
And then I also have heat therapy patches.
Example, you can have like,
let's say back pain or other
muscle pains and not just have a
cold,
but you could have that type of illness
that you want to take care of with this
care cart. And here's some Biofreeze.
And then here I have
this ice bag and wrap.
You can kind of see from the
picture. You just fill it with ice.
And then it has that wrap to keep the
ice bag in place, which I think is great.
I decided to just go ahead and keep it
in the box cause it fits really nicely
in this box. All right.
So I've taken it out.
I love that little cute heart
there. So just a typical ice bag.
And then here is the wrap for it.
Alright. These cups are from Ikea,
so I didn't see any on Amazon.
So luckily I've had these before. And
here, you've got to have chocolate,
have some granola bars.
So I have enough here.
Let's see four. I've six, just
some granola bars, chocolate,
any kind of snacks that are healthy
enough that you want to give them,
or even things like this that
will just bring some comfort.
This one happens to be empty
here. I have some extra hooks.
You can get these anywhere.
So if you need extra hooks,
let's say you want to hang your mask
or you want to hang your keys for
whatever reason you want to hang
anything you have hooks. Okay.
So that's why a cart is very versatile.
You can use it for all kinds of things.
I left this cup empty because the
other thing is that when it's actually
in use, I can put the cup up here.
Imagine this is facing you, you're sick,
you're lying there in your bed or on the
couch. And this has some fruit in it.
There's your soup. Maybe that's a
cup of tea. Your diffuser's here.
Here's some water. And then you can
put your cell phone here, right?
So extra cups, hooks,
even magnetic things are going to,
or things with magnetic
backing, just put them on there.
And you're going to find things to
use them for. Okay, here in the back,
I have this cup in a Ziploc bag.
What I would do is to put a
fork, a spoon, a soup spoon,
chopsticks,
and a stainless steel straw for
the person who is recovering.
Put that in the cup, put
some napkins for them.
And then you can see the
back of the diffuser.
So here are the hooks that hold that back.
The thing I got from Walmart.
And it has places to hold
your pens or dry erase
markers, pencils, whatever you need. Okay.
and I like to get dry erasers
with the magnetic backing.
So you can either put them here or
as you can see, this bar is metal.
So you could stick the dry erase marker on
there. And if it doesn't
have a magnet on the back,
you can always buy magnets and
glue them onto the back with the
is it called E6000 glue? Okay.
And let me show you this before
I get to that. So down here,
I just have a notebook. So
that time when I was, you know,
having bronchitis, it was,
I was coughing all the time.
And you don't really want to
talk, so have a notebook here.
I just happened to have this on hand.
I gotten from Ross long time ago.
And you just want to have
some type of notebook.
I think one that has a hard backing.
So it's easy to write on and you can
write notes there instead of using
your voice cause you
have to rest your voice,
when you have a sore throat
or something like that.
Then I just have a couple of
magazines here specific to the person
who is recovering. You know,
obviously I wouldn't have this here for
anyone else in my family, except for me.
So I would put stuff specific to them.
They can also put a book here that
they're currently reading or want to read.
And then here is a small
clipboard. You can get this.
So see, I got this at staples.
I don't know what size,
this is probably half
the size of a letter.
My family usually doesn't take medicine.
We usually just take vitamins and
we're, none of us are on prescriptions.
So I've always liked to have a medication
chart because it's hard for me to
track. I can't remember things.
And you want to dump your brain onto
paper information that you don't
need to keep in there because you
need your brain for other things.
That's what I always tell myself.
So this dry erase marker and this chart is
going to remember so much more than
what your brain will remember. Okay.
So I just downloaded
this from this website.
I'll put a link in the description box.
You can just put the
name of the patient here.
And then this is the name of the medicine.
So I would just change this and
put medication instead of name.
Okay. Then you put the start date.
So example you're on antibiotics
or whatever type of medicine.
You put that there.
And then you it says the
dose and the frequency.
So you just check it off and you can
put the time here when it was taken.
Okay. Date and time. And let's say
you have five medications. Okay.
So I have a chart for
each of us, so four. Okay.
I just printed it out, laminated
it with my laminating machine,
and we are good to go.
There are extra loops here.
Of course, you're not going
to fill it up with pens,
but maybe someone wants to
draw while they're recovering.
So you can put markers there. You
can put your eyeglasses, sunglasses,
if you want to keep out the
light. We have sleeping masks.
So now let me show you
what are in these bags.
So I have one for each member of
the family. I've used these bags.
I showed you in our blackout box.
So I'll put it the link to that
video in the icards. And again,
I've used my label maker, put the name
and all the things that are in here.
I do have to add some things.
I think I wanted to put sleeping
mask here and some other stuff,
but these are mainly the
things that are in here.
And the reason I put this is for
myself to remember what to put in here,
when I need to replenish.
It's also for the person who's
using it to know in general,
what's in here. They may have some
surprises in here. Good surprises.
And if there's something missing, we
know to get that back into the bag.
Again, I'm going to put all the
links in the description box.
A lot of these I got from Amazon
or let's say the pharmacy.
And so here are barf bags. You guys
remember these, especially on the plane.
And when you are having
that type of sickness,
you don't have time to run to the
toilet. So here I've got that.
I have some lozenges.
Okay. And these are surgical masks.
I put them in a Ziploc bag. Again,
these are also in a Ziploc bag, a glove.
This is a sleep mask. So example,
you may not want to be stuck
in bed the whole time, right?
You may want to come down to the couch.
Of course, if you're not contagious.
So I have this sleep mask.
And the ones I like to get
have this kind of contour,
especially if you have long
lashes or lash extensions,
those are nice to have.
They came with these earplugs and a bag.
It's always nice to have a bag with your
sleep mask because those tend to get
lost.
I've here a pair of socks to
just be comfortable and warm.
Fisherman's Friend is definitely my friend
and our own Visine. You can
always go to the pharmacy.
Look in the travel section,
and they're going to have
smaller doses of different
medicines. This is a,
an ear plug comes in a
container, which I love,
and it has the string to keep it together.
You put this in the back
of your neck so that the,
if the earplugs came out
or when you take them out,
they're not in different spots
and you don't lose them. Okay.
Have here some mints for
sure. Mints better than gum.
So have travel tissue
Burt's Bees facial cleansing towelettes.
Sometimes you want to just freshen up.
Don't need to go to the sink to do
that. You can just wipe your face,
wipe your hands, wipe your arms.
This is what I use this for.
Or you can have those
refreshing sprays also,
and just make sure to put
a towel here a face towel.
Some chapstick, lip balm,
our own nasal spray. And so
usually once this is open,
I use a permanent marker,
and I put the name.
So we just use one per
person specific to you.
Here's hand sanitizer. This
came in a box from Costco.
And this is my lotion.
My family has allergies.
So they have the Cerave lotion.
I have this one again
from the travel section.
This is the lotion that
the rest of my family uses.
So this is Cerave in a sample size.
They do have trial sizes or
travel sizes in the pharmacy.
And then also the way I
listed it is I thought of,
let's say physical comfort,
medicine, sanitizing.
So here bag, tissue, wipes.
Those are kind of things to
wipe, right? Socks, eye mask.
Those are kind of comfort. Earplugs,
chapstick, mints. Those are for the mouth.
Lotion, hand sanitizer for the
hands. Saline, lozenges, eye drops,
more of the medication type stuff.
And I do have to add gloves
and masks onto this list.
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I hope you enjoyed this video.
Let me know in the comments below what
you would put in your Get Well Care Cart.
Also, you can let me know. What is
your favorite part about this cart?
I'd love to get your feedback and
I'll see you in the next one. Bye.
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