The Dollar Tree Hack That Instantly Adds Much-Needed Storage To Your Shower

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Do you love the storage space in your shower? Does it have room for everything? Perhaps you have a spacious shower niche, which gives you all the storage real estate you need. After all, a built-in cubby is the practical shower feature HGTV's Jasmine Roth swears by for a luxurious bathroom. If so, lucky you! Though as nice as those niches are, they can have drawbacks, like becoming grimy if soap scum is allowed to build up.

For many people, especially those who share bathrooms with multiple householders, an endless question and bathroom battle is where to put all those bathroom necessities, from shampoo, conditioner, and facial cleanser to body wash, bar soap, and shaving cream ... Not to mention the yellow rubber ducky you need to have in there just because it makes you smile.

If you don't have a super-sized bathroom or handy shower niche, you can try this Dollar Tree hack to instantly add much-needed storage space to your washing-up area. This is such a simple solution, you'll wonder why you didn't think of it already! To make this method work, all you need is one of the store's Over-the-Door 6-Hook Hangers and a shower curtain rod. If you don't have one already installed, we have a hack for this, too.

Making the most of a small shower usually means squeezing ever-more things onto caddies or shelves or leaving items on the floor outside. When items fall in the shower (as they inevitably will), they become perilous; if they're located outside the shower, they present a tripping hazard. Creating extra storage by looping a Dollar Tree 6-hook hanger over the shower curtain rod solves this space problem. It stops you having to reach outside the shower for products or fishing around in a crowded tray for bottles that have fallen off a precarious perch.

There seem to be endless Dollar tree storage items that'll make the most out of your small shower space, but this is arguably one of the easiest to install. At 14.5 inches long by about 3.5 inches high, this over-the-door hanger fits over a shower curtain rod in just the same way it would fit over a door. It is really that simple! Face it inside the shower to hold bathroom necessities or to allow wash cloths and scrubbies to drip dry. Or you could hang it outside the shower to store towels or other essentials you don't want to get wet. It hangs up high, so there is a lot of room to store long, dangly items, like back scrubbers, out of the way. Spray paint the metal hanger with anti-rust paint to make it last longer — choose a color that matches your existing bathroom decor.

What if you don't have a curtain rod in your shower? Or what if you do, but you don't want to hang anything from it? That's the great thing about this easy Dollar Tree shower storage hack; it's easy to adapt to your particular situation. If you prefer to set up the hanger in your shower niche (so long as it's wider than the hanger's 14.5 inch length), fit the cubby with a short telescopic bar. A 6-pack of 9.8 inch to 15.7 inch Qinnsou White Cupboard Bar Tension Rods costs about $6. You can only dangle shorter items from it, but it could be the perfect solution to your specific storage issues.

If you have a shower door rather than a shower curtain, this hack might seem impossible to pull off. But we have a fix for that, too! The over-the-door 6-hook hanger can be cable-tied to a shower storage rack, like the Home Collection Wire Shower Caddy also from Dollar Tree, and hung from over the shower head to give you extra dangling space for everything from razors to soap-on-a-rope to the squeegee you use to clean the drips off your glass shower door.