Here are five tips for controlling the cable and wire madness and putting your home office on the path toward a cleaner, more organized look. When you need to connect an external USB hard drive to a second PC or find the power cord for a scanner, it’s a simple matter of reading information on the cable end, rather than having to trace the cable back to its source. When you unplug a device, the wire won’t drop to the ground and be lost. You can even use jumbo binder clips to bind together multiple cables. When you need to charge a smartphone, MP3 player, or Kindle, just plug and place it into the basket, where it refuels safely out of sight.
