My dad told me to just use zipties. He was wrong.

Back in 2019 my dad came over to help with my desk setup. He saw the spaghetti mess behind my monitor and said just ziptie everything tight. So I did. Two weeks later I needed to swap out a dead USB cable. Had to cut every single ziptie. Ruined three cables in the process. Now I use velcro wraps and laugh about it. Anyone else get bad advice from an older relative about cable management?

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william_miller11d ago

Three ruined cables just from zipties? Dude that's brutal.

jason_stone1211d ago

Realized old school advice is usually about looks not function.

hugo_cooper11d ago

Cried a little reading about those three cables RIP. That's next level painful man. And honestly @jason_stone12 hit it right on the head - old school advice is all about making it look clean for five minutes, not thinking about tomorrow. My dad is the same way, he'd rather have a desk that looks like a museum exhibit than one you can actually work on without a tool kit. Velcro wraps changed my life too, way easier to just undo and redo without collateral damage each time.