Go Tuck Yourself...and your wires

Seems like it's DIY week here at the hystERICal household.  Not sure why I use that anonymous pen name when my actual name is in the URL to this website, but let's just pretend you don't know who I am, and I don't know who my three blog readers are.

I've done this project before, but things started getting messy again so I did a re-do.  One thing I hate is having a bunch of wires causing clutter.  So I decided to do some work on hiding wires so they aren't as obtrusive.  When I did this the first time, I went to Home Depot to get some twist ties.  Guess what? Home Depot doesn't sell twist ties. How in the world does a store of that size, that will sell you everything from holiday decorations to 50 styles of toilets, not carry twist ties? Blows my mind.  I was about to go to the produce section of Dominicks and just steal a bunch of twist ties next to those thin plastic bags.  Then I found zip ties.

The great thing about zip ties is that they are really easy to tighten up wiring and are extremely secure. The downside is that once you zip it, you can't undo it.

This process was easier for me because my computer desks have some metal bars and glass that make it easy to attach the wires, so this won't work for everyone.  I start at the top, measuring the amount of cable/wire I need to plug them into the monitor, then tape them down.

From there, keep the wires as tight as possible and zip tie them to the metal bar. 

Then you follow the wire along the metal bars to the end of the table.  From here is where it gets a little harder.  For me, two of my power cords have those large black box thingies (very technical, but that's me, Mr. Technical).  So I ended up just shoving these into a tight space so you can't really see them unless you're under the desk.  Not very professional, but my end game was to not see wires, and this is the easiest way I could do it. 

Then, you measure out how long you need the other ends of the cords/cables to go, as seen below. 

Now, I had the wonderful opportunity of doing all of this, then realizing that my HDMI>Display Port cable to go from my monitor to my work computer was backwards.  Awesome.  This is where the zip tie thing really sucks.  I had to cut all of the zip ties I had just attached with scissors, then basically re-do the entire process.  Ughhhhhhhhh.  That was the reason I did this actually, my monitor can use HDMI, my work laptop has a Display Port input, so I got to replace that bulky VGA cable and get digital (I mean it's 2012, so why wouldn't I).  Ok, so now I've redone the zip ties again, cut the ends of them with scissors so they don't stick out, and voila, finished product:

So that concludes the play-by-play. I'm sure none of you are actually going to do this, but hey, it's one step closer to Koreanventing myself. Knowing how things have happened to me in the past, tomorrow they will invent wireless everything and all of this will have been for nothing.  But until tomorrow, in your face wires.  IN YOUR FACE!