Color Coded Cable Ties and Labels

Here's an easy trick that helps me in my ongoing struggle to keep track of the million or so cords in a non-tangly way.

These could be used to keep your chargers under control or to let you identify all the cords on your power strip at a glance.  The latter may keep you from accidentally unplugging your DVD player mid-movie or game console mid-level...not that I am speaking from experience or anything.

Step 1 Materials

Here's what you'll need...

• As many colors of duct tape as you like
• Velcro
• Sharpie
• Scissors
• Hole punch

Comments

[BlackHatCracker]

If there was a 'Like' button on here I would definitely hit it.. Love the idea.. I need that with all the cables that I have and the power adapters that I have for all the things that I got. Most of which that I don't use anymore, but still want them as a 'just in case' measure.

[bratos]

i use ziplock bags to organize my mess of cabling. it works well for me. but its not as nice and neat looking as your solution.

[Nettiemac]

Looks sturdy, colourful and very very practical, and nicely low tech.

[mole1]

This is a great design! I like the way the wrapper is attached to the cord.

[mr.incredible]

Very nice. Rubber bands disintegrate too.

In addition, if you put a small piece of wax paper on the sticky side of the duct tape before whole punching, you get a matching color dot to mark where it plugs to. You would need to do it on a separate piece of tape. I'm sure it would mess up your design if you put the wax paper in the band you were working on.

[curbowman]

COOL! Right now I am dealing with the clutter of my shop and decided to look some Instructables for help. Thanks for this simple & effective tip!

[Houdinipeter]

that looks alot better than rubberbands! thanks for the great ible!

[CrLz]

Nice cable wraps. Very smart!