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7 Easy & Creative Ways You Can Manage Your Cables

2017-01-10 , 5:24 pm

Identify the cables with bread clips

Crawling under the table to rearrange your cables is already a major challenge by itself plus it’s also back breaking work! Couple that with having to guess which plug belongs to which cable and you’ll feel like you’re trying to solve a Rubik’s cube. One interesting solution would be to label your cables with bread clips!

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Store long cables a toilet paper tubes

Some cables are just too long! A simple method to solve this problem would be the use of recycled toilet paper tubes. This ingenious repurposing trick might not be the prettiest thing around but will make your cables and cords look a lot more manageable.

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Hold the cables with Binder Clips

Many of us have a problem where the cables of our phone chargers and laptop chargers keep falling off the table. Keep your laptop and cell phone’s power plugs from falling off the back of your desk using binder clips!

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Hide the cables in plain sight

Cables and wires are great accessories for that artsy home you’ve always wanted by hiding it in plain sight.

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Mount Your Gadgets to a Pegboard

This method might seem a little difficult to pull off, but with some time and careful planning, it will help to clear off major clutter on your desk. Custom-mount all your peripherals and their cords to a piece of pegboard using wire or cable ties, then stow the whole thing under your desk for one of the neatest, desk-clearing DIY organising solutions we’ve ever seen.

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DIY Cable-Hiding Charging Station

We’ve all got a handful of corded gadgets to charge day in and day out, organise them all with a DIY charging station made with your shoe box.

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Use Lego figures to hold your charging cables

For those of you who have tonnes of old Lego chucked in your store room, time to bring them out! The mini-figure hands of the Lego figurines are a perfect fit for charging cables!