Have you ever come across some sort of container or organizer for anything that ended up being strangely useful? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by IonAddis@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I'm not a natural organizer, but I'm starting to appreciate things that help me organize as I get older.

Have any of you run into some sort of widget or gadget or box or even app that you almost brushed off, but then started using it and now it's the neatest thing ever?

I guess I'm looking for things you almost wrote off as boring-as-shit before you used it and were converted.

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[-] Juujian@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Cable box, but roll your cables and tape them together before you chuk them in. Has saved the day, particularly before major trips.

[-] invertedspear@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

My variant on this is a bunch of toilet paper and paper towel rolls upright in a box with the cables folded up and slipped into the rolls with the connection ends up. Need a USB-C to HDMI? Easy to find. Ethernet, DVI, whatever, all there, easy to find.

[-] IonAddis@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Oh, I like that. Make use of something that'd otherwise be trash.

[-] EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

That works for things like Christmas lights too

[-] IonAddis@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I kind of oops'd my way into this. Have a plastic tub, and I use...not zip ties, but reusable variants of them...to keep various cables together.

It's mostly SATA cables, HDMI or DVI cables, and computer power cables and a few small power/USB strips. There's a weird satisfaction to needing a cable for something, opening the tub, and being able to just lift the right one out without dealing with a rat's nest of whatever.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago

Have a plastic tub, and I use…not zip ties, but reusable variants of them

Double-sided Velcro works great for this. They sell pre cut strips but it's cheaper to buy a whole roll of it and cut it as needed. I actually made a jig to cut the roll down the middle so I could get twice as much. I'm pretty much set for life on that stuff now.

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