Cables, cables everywhere
Last week, I decided to do something that I had been putting off for months - clean up the tangled mess of A/V cables that was growing behind my entertainment center. Because I am constantly adding and removing components from my equipment rack, new cables are added and they become tangled with the olds ones. Then, you can't tell which cable goes to which device once they're installed.

So, I decided I was going to pull out every cable, label it and reattach them. I figured I could use cable ties and cable wraps to make the whole thing much more organized.

After hours crouched behind the television, I have determined that there is no way to make nearly a mile of A/V cables look organized. There are just too many of them.

So, now I've got cables that are labeled and grouped with cable ties, but it still doesn't look very organized. I guess 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

Photo before
Photo of clean slate
Photo after

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