Our little office closet is finally done.
Yay!
I promise pictures soon, I just need to snap a few, and Hulu keeps getting in the way.
I love you all, but my addiction to quality trashy television comes first.
After the kids, of course.
So basically my priorities are:
1. Family.
2. Television.
3. Projects.
4. Everything else that’s not important like cooking dinner and cleaning bathrooms.
Yup. That sounds about right.
Anywho, back to the closet office.
I needed to get a drawer full of USB cables organized, so I headed to my local thrift store and got a whole bunch of casette tapes for .50 a piece.
Then Lily thought they were actually movies and stole them all.
And then I very politely asked for them back.
Then I watched her try to put them in the DVD player for two hours.
That was awesome.
When she finally lost interest, (aka I intentionally left out a bag of leftover Valentine’s candy), I gathered up the tapes and took them all out of the cases.
Except for this one.
I am going to have to find a cassette player because I am very interested in knowing what’s it doing outside?
Here’s my empty cases.
Here’s my USB cable drawer.
This was after I narrowed the cables down to just the ones I needed.
All I did was just roll up the cables, and pop them right in.
Oh. My. Organization.
So much better, and look at how much more room I have!
See, this is why you should hoard things. You never know what crap you just might need down the road.
Yes, you can quote me on that.
In fact, I am going to put that in vinyl on my garage wall in front of Mr. Wright’s car.
Either that or something like, “If you pull into this garage you may or may not be contaminated with spray paint fumes.”
Either would work well around here.
Here’s my nicely organized drawer in my desk:
Love it.
Office reveal coming soon! Maybe tomorrow!
Wait, not tomorrow ’cause typing office reminds me I need to watch The Office.
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at 8:41 am
Ahhhh! I need to do this today, we have cords all over the place. ALL OVER.
at 2:24 pm
That was a good idea. I am going now to empty my cassette tapes.
at 10:55 am
This is such a cool idea! I love how organized and “clean” everything looks. Now I FINALLY have a reason to get rid of my Mariah Carey tapes. Finally.
at 8:59 pm
Wow leave it to a woman to come up with a solution to an age old problem, and I mean that as a compliment. I have a lot of pro audio cables like microphone cables, guitar cables, monitor cables, etc., and this is the best solution I’ve seen for this mess so far after a lot of searching on audio forums.
You should see some of the crazy stuff that men come up with for this problem: toilet paper rolls, cardboard boxes, plastic tubs, etc. All of these methods eventually put you back right where you started, with a big tangled mess. I’m heading to a thrift store tomorrow to score some cases. I will probably try some VCR cases to accomodate some of my bulkier cables, such as guitar cables and thicker microphone cables, but the cassette cases seem perfect for usb and iPod/ipad cables. Keeping cables, especially pro audio cables, tangles up in a bin will almost always result in cable damage at some point.
Of course I will probably opt to arrange my cases in something a bit more macho and rock and roll, like an ammo box from an army surplus, or something with skulls painted on it.
Can I post your solution on some audio and recording forums? I would of course link back to your post.