1. Organize your DVDs by slipping them into DiscSox boxes with plastic sleeves (shown) so you can flip through them by genre or artist.*
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2. Use a decorative wooden ladder to hang magazines and even clothes.*

3. Repurpose a standard desktop organizer to hold bathroom essentials, such as makeup, cotton swabs, brushes, and combs.*

4. On a tiled bathroom wall, hang a mesh lingerie bag from suction-cup hooks to store bath toys.

* These tips, products, and ideas were taken from the Real Simple organizational Hall of Fame. Tried, true, and worth repeating.