Cable Capable | Found: a 25-cent cable tie option

Cable management has remained a concern for me. I'm not much into wireless everything yet. I haven't had the time to scout around my favorite Japanese shops as well, so it was a bit of a pleasant surprise, as I was going on an errand, to come across this thingy: one of several types of ponytail bands I found being peddled on the ubiquitous Philippine "bilao" (that flat round woven tray favored by itinerant vendors), somewhere along an uber-busy sidewalk in Cubao.

One website I saw describes it as a "telephone cable headrope." At only ten Philippine pesos a piece (roughly 25 US cents), it seemed a cheap enough option for taming my digital spaghetti of mouse cable, laptop power cables, headphone wiring and similar stuff. This is especially true for my laptop and extension cable, which I've been lugging around everywhere (read: different branches of The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf and Starbucks).

Likes: (1) not as easy to lose as a piece of twist-tie; (2) kind to cables with its friction-free, sharp-free surface); (3) relatively unobtrusive aesthetically, as most of my cables are black anyway; and (4) cheap enough to stock up on, in case time proves it to be a durable enough cable management tool. | Disclaimer: I've used several since November 2012. One of them (shown in first photo) has begun to show signs of reduced elasticity.

At any rate, Creative|Kuripot is all about exploring ways to save money, time or other resources (including sanity) and sharing whatever good I come across, particularly information, tips, bargains. So feel free to try out this idea. Or share whatever substitute or option you've come across.

A cable-happy day to you. :-)

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And now, a Word from the Ultimate Creative: 

Let all things be done decently and in order.

1 Corinthians 14:40 
 (King James Version, courtesy of biblegateway.com)