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    7 Easy Organizing Ideas That Cost $15 Or Less

    Little problems solved.

    1. Before your cookout on the Fourth, use an onion instead of a grill brush to clean off any crusty bits.

    2. Float a tennis ball in your swimming pool to help skim off the oily sheen floating on the surface.

    3. Safety-pin pairs of socks together before tossing them in the laundry, so you never have a missing mate again.

    4. Try this prep-once, pack-as-you-go system to spend less than an hour making lunches for your whole week (or your kid's week, or everyone's week).

    5. Set up a password manager to make all of your logins more secure — and so you never have to actually remember any of them.

    6. Turn the corner by your backdoor into a mini-mudroom with three repurposed crates.

    7. Try tracking your budget and expenses by hand for a month — either in a journal or on a sheet of paper posted somewhere you'll see it.

    Want more organizing ideas? See last week's tricks (plus more!) here.