Power strip are a large, awkward, and difficult if you need to use your gadgets while you charge them. The PowerCube ditches the bulk, and gives you plenty of outlets in a compact package, making it easy to plug in your devices while you use them around the house. Here's why I love it, and why I think you will, too.

When you're running at least two extension cords to power something, a rough tug on the line can easily separate them. A carefully placed carabiner fixes that.

No one understands the value of a properly wound cable more than concert roadies and TV crew professionals, who wrap and unwrap hundreds of metres of cord on a daily basis. Here's the method they use to keep their shows running on time.

If you want to add a little personality to your headphones and keep the cables from twisting and tangling, the answer may be as close as your local craft store. All you need are some beads in a colour you wouldn't mind wearing, and you have a ticket to snag-free headphone cords.

Who knew that LEGO designed its figures' hands perfectly to hold Apple Lightning and other types of cables? Stick a LEGO brick on your desk, attach LEGO figure(s), and, voilà, an ingenious cord-catching solution.

Magnetic cable catchers like the MOS Organiser are great, but they're fdairly expensive considering it's just a block of magnets. If you'd prefer to make one for yourself, Makeuseof has a guide for doing it with repurposed materials.

You can buy all kinds of different products to help you tame cable clutter under your desk, but it's just as easy to make something for yourself. I tamed mine using the metal rings from a broken three-ring binder.

Some headphones come with crazy long cords, which makes managing them a pain. If you have any long cable that you use often, then consider braiding them.

It's hard enough to keep one workstation's mishmash of cables and cords out of sight. This home office manages to corral those cables for two computers -- resulting in a clean and aesthetically pleasing space for two.

If your desk is too thick for the old binder clip cable organising hack or you don't want to dent your furniture, try this other ingenious alternative: a bread tag.

While it might not be as effective as a rain gutter, a paper towel or toilet paper tube can get the job done for simple cable management behind your desk.

If you've ever had a puppy or a particularly suicidal cat, you know pets have a strange desire to chew on power cords. This causes all sorts of problems. Over on Cool Tools, they recommend cheap plastic tubing to keep your cords safe.

We've shared countless methods for managing your cables, but if you have one that you need to unplug or move around frequently, your best bet might be a magnet and a small spring.

Dear Lifehacker, I move my laptop around a lot, and the power cord often gets bent in every possible place. Over time the bends stick in this position, some ends fray, and I end up having to replace it. How can I take care of it so I'm not buying another one in six months? Thanks, Crazy Cables

If you use earbuds to listen to music, you probably have them with you but not necessarily wearing them all the time. You may need to take them out to interact with another person or when you want a break from listening to your music. When that happens, you have to solve the problem of where to put those earphones. Props solves that problem for you.

It doesn't require much to call an area a workspace -- all you really need is a desk -- but there's plenty more you can do in any office to take full advantage of the space. The walls, your desk, and even your doors are more than they appear to be -- they're secret productivity tools. With a few small alterations, you can unlock their hidden potential.

Finding a place to store small appliances is an annoying task on its own, but it's even worse when you have to find a way to wrap the cord as well. The blog A Thousand Words shows us that one of the easiest tricks is to just wrap the cord around the appliance and stick it to the side with a little Velcro.

We love a good cable management hack here on Lifehacker, and this idea from Reddit user castironfoodie is both simple and inexpensive: screw a few eyehooks into your desk to keep cables from becoming too much of a tangled mess.

Someday soon(ish), virtually all of your electronics will transfer data and maybe even charge wirelessly, but in the meantime, we're stuck managing cords and cables. You'll find about as many cable management solutions as there are stars in the sky, but I've never posted my favourite simple cord-wrapping and shortening technique. So here goes.