(The photo’s not mine)
Dedicated hanging wall?
Drawer full of compartments sorted by function?
Big ole bag of cables covered in wotsits?
Edit: Okay I was looking for ideas, but you guys are all shambles.
- < 3m cables: I wrap them into a neat circle and put them in several cardboard boxes sorted by function/extension (e.g. USB-A, USB-C, Power+Kettle).
- 1 extra box for miscellaneous types (e.g. a USB-C to USB-A would go in there)
- All the boxes go into a single drawer.
- For long cables: I wrap them into large neat circles and then they all go into the same tote bag hanging under the stairs
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I neatly wrap them up securely with zip ties and stack them in a 35 gallon tote. Only to need something on the bottem of that tote two days later when the tote is in my 100 plus degree shed outside.
Lord you’re all fancy. I just shove any I have in a cupboard and forget they exist
In a pile under the desk
Just keep a couple of whole reels and make the ends off at the length I need rather than keep dozens of individual lengths.
what about your USB cables?
Cable tied into loops and stuffed into a bag of shame
I think I’m a bit slacker at home, but with other people’s cables, especially at places I anticipate working at again. They get:
- Grouped into like types
- measured, and the length is written on masking tape
- Rolled under/over into equally sized loops
- tied off in two to three places. Ideally with reusable velcro cable ties, but if unavailable, twisty ties, or masking tape.
The trick with masking tape (or any other tape as a cable tie) is to go round backwards once (so the sticky side does not touch the cable), until it sticks to itself backwards, then fold it back and go round “the normal way”, then once you’re fully round the normal way, you fold the end over into a little “quick release tab”. You can write a label on it, you can open it easily, it stays stuck to itself, so doesn’t come off, it doesn’t leave sticky residue all over (y)our cables.
Sometimes the cables are all stored in once place. Sometimes they’re stored with a relevant object (I.e. a HDMI cable with a TV or Projector). The box of the object will be labelled to say if it contains such a cable.
I don’t control their end destination, so that’s someone else’s task.
At home they’d just go into boxes, separated for power leads, USB leads, AV leads, misc, misc 2, “old”, "stuff"and “things”.
[Edit] Also, your tool and cable wall is beautiful. That’s what mine is meant to look like :)
That photo is not mine, I was just looking for an example so that people would know what I’m talking about
I like that you have the length of wire written on the wire, that’s a cool tip! I don’t use tape, I just fold the cables in on themselves if that makes sense, but I appreciate the trick with keeping the sticky side away from the tape
Right now, big ol’ bag. Video cables at the bottom with USB and Ethernet cables separated in two smaller bags on top. Plan is to eventually get more drawers and make some of these dividers https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3559789 but I have a feeling I’ll never get round to it.
They either go into my box of cables or get thrown out
I have…
The Box
I upgraded to the box but with all the cables neatly bundled with velcro, it’s still a mess.
I seem to store all the cables I never need on a hanging wall.
And all the cables I need constantly at the bottom of a bag-for-life in the shed.Here is what I came up with. Photo keepers that come in a storage box. They also fit 3.5inch HDD perfectly.
Very nice as well! I fear you might struggle with bulkier kettle cables, but this looks very organized for smaller cables
This is how I do it:
- I am using stackable euro container to store most of my stuff, I have one dedicated to cables.
- I have a bunch of documents zipper pouches that I use for organization in these containers, so I organized my cakes using these
- then I have a stack of Velcro cable ties to spool.the cables in the pouches.
Very clean! I really like the neatness of the zipper pouches
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