Limit each roommate to three products

The best way to declutter and organize a small shower caddy in a shared apartment is to enforce a strict three-item limit per person and use a caddy with separate tiers or compartments.

Start by having each roommate pick exactly three products they actually use every single shower. Shampoo, conditioner, body wash. That’s it. No backups, no masks, no razors. The caddy itself should have multiple shelves or separate baskets — one per person, clearly labeled or color-coded. This way everyone knows their zone and nobody touches the wrong bottle.

The reason this works: scarcity forces decisions. When you only have room for three, you stop hoarding half-empty bottles of stuff you never use. Shared shower space gets messy fast because people treat it like a storage locker. Restricting each person to three items keeps the caddy light, easy to move, and impossible to overflow.

If you really cannot live without a fourth