How are you organizing your spare cable drawer?

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You guys have drawers??

How are you organizing your spare cable drawer?

Should I be?

Throw them in and let them become one.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Organize?

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.

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.

Shockingly similar. Ziplocs with labels.

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

Organize?

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

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

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.

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.

I prefer a more stochastic approach.

velcro ties, in fabric grocery bags

I only keep one spare of each type.

I use cable ties to keep them coiled

Like that photo.

I don't, they're everywhere

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.

Into nooses.

I use a combination of zip lock bags and small cardboard boxes with the contents written on the outside.

went to a shoe shop and asked them for old shoe boxes. now i have free cardboard boxes, all the same size and easy stackable.

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.

I have a few small totes. I have a few categories: USB, networking, computer internals (SATA), power, A/V. From there, I just coil them up and hope for the best. I still have to hunt a little to find stuff, but the vague categories makes it a lot easier.

Clear plastic bins full of toilet paper rolls with the cables folded and inserted so that both ends stick out upwards. Keeps everything tidy and visible at a glance.

Three drawers, divided into USB, A/V, and power supply/adaptors.

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

Nice! So far I have a box of bags, vaguely sorted by function

I have a 5 gallon bucket 3/4 full with just USB cables of all types.

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.