The Over-Under Technique for Winding a Cable

If you ever need to wind up and store a lengthy cord or cable, here's a video showing the "over-under" technique.

You simply must do it this way, comma, period. Learn this simple trick once, and you'll use it for the rest of your life. It's like tying your shoes, except easier...and it's that useful.

I may have linked to this in a previous post somewhere, but tonight I felt compelled to post it here (again), just to share one of my minor, yet undoubtedly useful skills.

For decades (literally), I have known this technique existed. I had seen it performed on occasion, usually by some low-ranking sound tech, but never had the need to interrupt someone who was so obviously busy doing their job. (It's not like people do this for fun...right?)

The other night (okay, it was several weeks ago) I was cleaning up the garage, and there they were: twisted and tangled in a poorly-wound mess. What's my first answer to any simple problem: speak with the interwebs.

Alas, the wonderful little 5min.com video we see here. What a great world we live in.