Silver Sharpie

[avram]

My housemates were amazed at this, so I guess it’s not obvious:

You know those power bricks that come with most electronic gadgets nowadays? The ones that, after you’ve got more than couple, you can’t remember which brick goes with what gadget? My simple, cheap solution: The silver Sharpie.

Just write on the brick what gadget it powers. I first did this a couple years back for Worldcon, when I realized that all the people in our hotel room had, collectively, at least a dozen gadgets that would need recharging, and we’d be getting all our bricks mixed up.

So yeah, Sharpie makes a silver marker. Pack one black and one silver Sharpie with you, and you’ll be able to write on just about any solid object you might need to.

And that round yellow thing is a Mini Cable Turtle. I picked up two or three of them at The Container Store a while back. I keep one on my cellphone’s mic/earbud cable, to keep it from going crazy and strangling everything else in my pocket. I used to use one on my iPod’s earbud cable, but now I use the devil horns trick.

Comments

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Holy cow, what a great idea!

[quarkwiz.livejournal.com]

It really should be obvious. We've been doing that with all our various wall warts for years, just because we have so many! Thanks for the devil's horns tip.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

You're one smart cookie. Thank you for the great idea. (We've already got the silver Sharpies, even!)

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

OH, thank you! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I even have a silver Sharpie; I even have thought of labeling the black boxes; somehow, I never put the two together. Should be obvious, yes; is obvious (to everyone), clearly no.