Upgrade Your Bathtub Curtain With A Solution That Adds Storage

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When your bath-shower combo lacks the necessary storage space for your hair care products and other toiletry essentials, the shower floor and the edge of the tub become your only options. While tension-rod caddies and over-the-shower-head organizers can make a difference, they're often made with materials that can rust or develop mold or mildew over time without frequent cleaning. Plus, if you share a bathroom with multiple people, you may need more spots to put care products to keep the area functional and organized. So, what can you do to increase bathroom shower storage without taking up too much space and creating a mold breeding ground? The answer might be on Amazon.

The Misslo Hanging Mesh Pocket Shower Organizer is available on Amazon for less than $9 and is designed to hook onto your shower curtain for space-saving toiletry storage. It features eight mesh pockets made of non-absorbent nylon that allow water to drain through rather than to pool up. It can be hung up either on the shower curtain rod or a door, as the organizer comes with two sets of hooks. If you hang it on the curtain rod, the shower curtain can stay put during installation. At the time of writing, this shower storage idea has earned a 4.6-star average from over 9,100 ratings.

The Misslo mesh shower organizer measures 14.6 inches wide and 31.1 inches high, offering more vertical storage and taking up minimal space. However, since it will get bulkier as you fill its pockets with shampoo bottles, it may not be well-suited for narrower showers. Luckily, the organizer comes with two types of hangers — one that clips onto a shower curtain rod and one that goes over a door — so users who are short on shower space could opt to hang it over their bathroom door instead.

There are multiple ways to attach the organizer to an existing shower curtain rod. You could simply place the organizer's hooks in between the shower curtain hooks, but these could get tangled and make it difficult to move the curtain. The most functional solution is to line the organizer's grommets up with your shower curtain's grommets and hang them up together. This can make it smoother to open and close the curtain since it'll move with the organizer as one piece. Regardless of how you hang it up, consider putting the organizer on the side of the shower curtain that you don't typically enter or exit from to keep it stationary.

Some customers purchased more than one to expand the amount of toiletries they could store on the shower curtain rod. If you want to double storage space in a small shower enclosure, make sure to measure the width of the curtain rod before you buy more than one to hang side by side. Check that tension rods are snug and secure before you load your Misslo organizers up with heavy bottles — according to the product listing, each organizer can safely hold up to 2 pounds, and standard tension rods can hold between 5 and 20 pounds.