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Currently they're in types in ziploc baggies but there must be a better way

the baggies:

  • USB A > USB C
  • USB C <> USB C
  • USB A > USB B Micro
  • Ethernet
  • HDMI to different sized HDMI
  • HDMI to USB B
  • HDMI to other USB
  • HDMI to HDMI
  • USB female to male and extenders
  • Dongles, converters, and USB hubs
  • VGA
  • USB A to lightning bolt
  • A few old ipod charging cables

Not pictured: separate drawer for guitar cables, XLR, headphones jack to jack and adapters, phono and midi; separate duffel bag for long power cables; separate baggie in another drawer for international adapters and plugs

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Toiletpaper-rolls works 👍

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Right, sorry, I got carried away.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Which this solution is. No excitement or other problems. Just grab a cable and off you go.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

This is very clever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

That's a great hack. Reduces the cleanup of having them zip tied together too. Grab and go

[–] kirkoman 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What did you do with all that toilet paper, though?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You'll make the bidet people cry

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

You can use a bidet to keep the cables in, too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why you need so many though?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

It just feels wrong to throw away cables...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

That's a great idea, plus you can label them on the outside of the roll!

I mostly use assorted small cardboard boxes – usually from computer peripherals.

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[–] Pika 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I joined the conversation only to post this question. To it, you beat me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I may be dull, but I'm certainly not organized or motivated!

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 3 days ago

It's the one with the spare cables in it is how it's organized. I think there's an old clock, an airbrush and a couple long expired sectional charts in there.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How are you organizing your spare cable drawer?

Should I be?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Buy a refrigerator box, write "CABLES" on every side and put all cables in the box

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)

No drawers in the server closet, so 3D printer to the rescue:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Just wanna say, this is gorgous

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

For those that haven't yet discovered them, reusable cable ties exist. They make keeping cables properly coiled a lot easier. No more rat kings!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Throw them in and let them become one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Like a techno rat king!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are you kidding me? I have 21 drawers of cables and bs.

(Not all of these are filled / bottom right are empty)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I was about to ask if you could show off some of your assorted cables, then I couldn't stop thinking of Professor Farnsworth

Prof. Farnsworth: Let me show you around. That’s my lab table and this is my work-stool. And over there is my intergalactic spaceship! And here’s where I keep assorted lengths of wire.

Fry: Whoa! A real live spaceship!

Prof. Farnsworth: I designed it myself. Let me show you some of the different lengths of wire I used.

[–] smuuthbrane 12 points 6 days ago

Wait, you're supposed to organize your spare cables??

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Michael's store sells thee 16 5x7 photo organizers in a carry case.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I used to have a big plastic tub that I just tossed all the cables into. After a few years, it was literally all one piece; no matter where you pulled, the entire thing would come out. It took 5 minutes of untangling to get anything out. My brother called it an abomination.

I bag each type separately, as you do. I have fewer audio cables, so they are also bagged in the same bin, quarter and eighth inch phone cables separately. No Apple stuff. Extras like DE9 serial and MIDI cables. IEC power cables are in the bin, extension cords coiled, hanging from the basement ceiling.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

There is no better way. Any more structure, like hooks or dividers, reduces the usable storage space.

Label your ziplocs and call it a day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Mine are just chucked in with no organisation whatsoever. If I want a cable I have to search the entire box and untangle it from all the other cables.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or buy one then realise you already have several in that tangled mess.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Rubber band everything and throw them in a series of different drawers of varying sizes with a vague organizational scheme

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Mine is a cable storage tub, but same way. Baggies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Ponytail hair rubber bands. soft on the cables, reusable, cheap...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Shockingly similar. Ziplocs with labels.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

It's a box. It's full of cables.

[–] TriflingToad 1 points 4 days ago

I just get a big ziplock and stuff cables in it till its full and get a new one.
I just go through looking for a cable by going "hmm would this be a 2015-2020 cable or a 2010-2015 cable?"
My system is undoubtedly flawed, but it works well enough to not fix it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

velcro ties, in fabric grocery bags

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I have all the "USB-A to ?" cables rubber banded together at the opposite end. That way I can find the non USBA side that I need quickly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Loose in box that u have to go digging through to find anything. Its the technological version of a rat king. I did go through it lat week and threw out 90% of the shit. I found cables I didn't even know existed.

Its kinda a useless box now since the only 3 cables I need in my life are USBC HDMI and power.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Just wait. In 3 days you're going to need that null modem cable and it's going to ruin you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I only keep one spare of each type.

I use cable ties to keep them coiled

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Then how do you keep your spare spare cable drawer sorted?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I don't, they're everywhere

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