Cable Clip Organizers Lesson – Buy, Don’t Build
Here’s one of those gadgets that’s better to buy than build – Cable Clip Organizers
This week I learned two things about cable clip organizers:
- They will make your life better
- Buy real ones, DIY alternatives are not good options
My fitness tracker charging cable slips off the nightstand. The nightstand lamp cord and its inline dimmer keep slipping from the side to the back where I can’t reach it.
At my desk, my headphone cable and my mouse cord keep getting tangled. Plus I have two USB cables running from behind the desk up onto the surface which get intertwined with the keyboard cable somehow.
Does any of this sound familiar?
These are just little nuisances you put up with, until you realize that you don’t have to. And once you eliminate them, you realize how frustrating they were in the first place.
The folks at Blue Key World reached out to me and asked if I would be interested in trying out their Cable Clip Organizers. They sell on Amazon at a very reasonable price and have very good reviews. I agreed.
Trying DIY Cable Clips
My first thought was, why buy these when I have a 3D printer and I can just make my own. In fact, I found a Cable Clip Thing on Thingiverse designed specifically to avoid buying these. I downloaded it and printed it out.
What’s obvious is that PLA and PVC aren’t flexible, so whatever you print is going to have be specific to certain cable diameter. The first one I printed didn’t have a wide enough gap to fit any cable into it. I would have to sand the top flaps back to fit anything.
So I went back to Thingiverse and found another cable clip design to print which had a wider opening for the cable. This was actually too big for my keyboard and mouse cables, letting them slip out the top when I moved my mouse. And they’re not big enough for a USB cable.
Another challenge with your own 3D printed cable clip organizers is that you need to buy some adhesive backing. Of course you want to get the 3M Command Strips because they come off without leaving residue on the furniture. That alone, though, costs more than half of the cable clip organizers so the DIY route is already a tough sell to me.
It doesn’t make sense to have to find and print a different clip for every different cable in your house. Fortunately, BlueKeyWorld has the solution.
Get Real Cable Clip Organizers
The Blue Key World Cable Clip Organizers are made of a foam rubber. They’re flexible, so they are both tight enough to grip the cable and flexible enough to put the cable into them at the same time. And, they come with adhesive backing already on them. The small keyboard and mouse cables as well as the larger USB cables all fit. None of them slip out of the clip because the top flaps close back together. It’s such a simple and inexpensive solution, it just makes good sense to buy these cable clip organizers.
For very little expense, you can eliminate one of life’s little nuisances with these Cable Clip Organizers. I didn’t think I would need an entire pack of of 6, but once I started to use them I realized 6 may not be enough. They just work. I recommend these if you have cables in your life. This just is one of those problems you’re better off solving by buying the solution instead of building it.
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