6 InnovativeWays toDeclutterPowerCords Love the convenience of smart home technologies and your personal mobile devices but find yourself constantly stumbling over power cords or frantically searching for the right charger? While modern technology has given us the freedom to multitask and be entertained upon the go, ironically, it has made us dependent on a variety of USB and other types of charging cords, adapters and power cords. As we all know, small charging cords are easy to misplace, while large power cords are bulky, often leading to a tangled, clutteredmess. Check out these easy DIY hacks to keep track of your charging cords and identify which power cord connects to which device. 1. Break out the label maker! If you own a label maker, use it to create professional-looking labels for your power cords. With the name of each device printed clearly and attached to the corresponding cord, you eliminate the guesswork of which cord connects to which device. 2. Don’t have a label maker? No problem! Organize and recycle by reusing plastic bread clips as labels. Use a permanent marker to write the name of the corresponding device on the front and back of each clip. You can take your organization efforts one step further by simply continuing to save bread clips and then assigning each type of device a particular color. For example, you can label
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TVs as Functional Art
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