Quick Tip: Using Toilet Paper Rolls As Cable Organizers
Mar 12, 2014
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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A week ago we shared a quick tip about using paper binders to organize your workstation. Today we supplement this tip with another quick tip about arranging cables in drawers.
Instructables user berserk shares a clever tip on using empty TP rolls as a divider system for cable management. Once you are done with a cable, put it away inside the in of a TP roll placed vertically in a drawer. A few of those and you will have a honeycomb of cable cells each with its own little baby cable.
If you can’t fill up an entire drawer, you can tape a few rolls together to keep em standing up straight.
[TP Roll Organizer Box | instructables]
P.S. and on the second drawer from the top, you can Arrange Your Photo Gear In A Cutlery Tray
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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7 responses to “Quick Tip: Using Toilet Paper Rolls As Cable Organizers”
This is reclycling!
yeah I tried and didn’t like the cardboard roles for cables or wrapping paper. a cable hanger (1st picture, from amazon) is much better for around the house/office; its cheap ($10) and straightens your cables. for travel, wrap cables without cable ties: spool the cable around your hand, then wrap it around itself a few times toward the end (2nd picture, from me). viola, fast, easy and no ugly tp roles!
sorry about the re-post; the first one failed…
yeah I tried and didn’t like the cardboard roles for cables or wrapping paper. a cable hanger (1st picture, from amazon) is much better for around the house/office; its cheap ($10) and straightens your cables. for travel, wrap cables without cable ties: spool the cable around your hand, then wrap it around itself a few times toward the end (2nd picture, from me). viola, fast, easy and no ugly tp roles!
So after I called you out on the paper binder tip, lifted from a seven-year old LifeHacker article, you come with this one.
http://lifehacker.com/5798636/store-miscellaneous-cables-with-a-diy-toilet-paper-tube-organizer
Lifted, again, straight from a multiple years-old LifeHacker article. That mentions the paper binder tip THEY have done before.
You are kidding, right?
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takimata, I am not really sure where all those negative feelings are coming. My email is editor@diyphotography.net – I would love to discuss whatever you have been offended by.
Flagged. Who peed in your orange juice this morning?
very….interesting….