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    21 Lazy Organizing Tricks That Might Actually Work

    Low effort, high reward.

    1. Store your bobby pins in a magnetic paperclip holder.

    2. Use rubber bands, pipe cleaners, or hot glue to keep your clothes from falling off their hangers.

    3. Repurpose a cheap lid organizer into a way to organize your clutches.

    4. Make your earrings easy to find by sorting them into ice cube trays.

    5. Store all of your extra buttons on safety pins.

    6. Keep your charger and earbuds safe in your purse or luggage using an old sunglasses case.

    7. Use washi tape to mark your phone's charger so you can always pick it out from everyone else's.

    8. Stop your smartphone's storage problems in their tracks with a little bit of memory management.

    9. Clean up the cords behind your TV with some cheap cable ties and removable adhesive hooks.

    10. Paint all of those similar keys with nail polish so you don't waste time trying three different keys ever again.

    Plus your keyring gets to be more colorful. Get the tutorial here.

    11. Make a free car trash can using an old dishwasher tablet container.

    Here's how to cover it with fabric, if you want it to be ~pretty~.

    12. Secure clothespins on the inside of your cabinets to create a little bit of extra storage.

    13. Keep a lazy Susan under your kitchen sink to make all of your cleaning supplies easy to grab.

    14. Use a wine bottle rack to keep your water bottle collection neat.

    15. Turn an ordinary plastic container into a divided plastic container using cupcake liners.

    16. Hang a tension rod about your washer and dryer to hold hang-dry clothes and your detergent.

    17. Prevent your trash bag from slipping down by securing it with binder clips.

    18. Set up a battery recycling station with an old coffee can.

    19. If your family is always leaving their junk around the house, institute a "crap basket" system.

    20. Keep your folded sheets in their respective pillow cases, so it's always easy to grab the whole sheet set at once.

    21. Keep a laundry basket in your trunk, so you can carry in all of your groceries at once.

    All of these tricks are from our weekly series of organizing ideas — you can see previous roundups here, and watch out for new editions each week!