If I can deal with my shameful pile of cables, so can you
By Tim Brookes

Though we live in an increasingly wireless world, cables are still a necessary evil. If you’re anything like me, you just keep collecting them and putting them away just in case you need them at some point in the future.

At this stage, I’ve been collecting cables for decades, so it’s time to deal with the problem.



My pile of shame

I’ve been unintentionally collecting cables since the early 2000s, and in that time, I’ve amassed quite a collection. Despite my best efforts to organize them, they always seem to revert to the same spaghetti-like mess that makes finding anything near impossible. The more you dig, the more they unravel, the more tangled everything becomes.

I try to keep all of these cables together, in a big box, for obvious reasons. There are enough cables in my house without sprinkling 20-year-old phone chargers and deprecated video cables everywhere. When I need something, I venture into the abyss, fish it out, close the lid, and never speak of the horrors I have seen.