Tidying your peripheral cables

If you're anything like me, you like your desk to try and be as uncluttered as possible.  Chiefly so you can then put even more clutter on it!  Cables, chargers, mess here and there, it all adds up and is a supreme pain in the butt.   Here's a quick and easy way to tidy up your computer cables so they're immediately accessible and out of the way.

Step 1 The Shelf

Personally, I love my little shelf.  It allows me to put my mp3 player and phone docks and pen holder  out of the way, but still accessible.  It also, more importantly, has an undershelf that lets me organise my cables!

You can use whatever you like, or indeed none at all if you have a flat surface available - I knocked this together out of reclaimed wood. You don't have to route the shelf in - I did purely because I like having a little lip to stop things falling off the sides.