{"id":18166,"date":"2014-11-18T17:47:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T22:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=18166"},"modified":"2014-11-18T17:47:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T22:47:52","slug":"easy-upcycling-bread-tags-cord-organizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/easy-upcycling-bread-tags-cord-organizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Upcycling: Bread Tags as Cord Organizer"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n If you\u2019re a regular reader of my Easy Upcycling column<\/a>,\u00a0you might remember that my children eat an inordinate amount of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. This results in our household consuming about four loaves of bread a week. After a few weeks of throwing those little plastic bread tags in the recycle bin<\/a>, I thought, \u201cThere\u2019s got to be something useful I can do with these.\u201d<\/p>\n So, I started putting them aside until I could figure out what that something was.<\/p>\n A few weeks later, while I was on all fours behind our home entertainment center trying to plug all the various cables into a new Belkin Surge Protector (thunderstorms are a regular occurrence in coastal South Carolina), inspiration struck. Those little bread tags would be perfect as cord labels, showing me which cord goes to which device; that\u2019s a lifesaver when trying to figure out why the Frozen<\/em> DVD won\u2019t play.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Bread tags aren\u2019t inherently attractive, however, and even though these would be tucked away somewhat out of sight, I decided to see what I could do to spruce them up. I found some leftover paint from our living room remodel and painted each tag the color of the living room wall. Then I labeled them to correspond to the different devices and made matching tags for the gadgets that have HDMI ports.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Then, I simply I attached them to the correct cords on the surge protector and to the correct HDMI ports on the television (using my 6-year-old as my spotter to tell me which device turned off when I unplugged which cord)\u2014super easy and super useful for a gadget-obsessed household such as ours.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n I painted all the tags I had, about 30 in total (as I said, a lot of PB&J), so they\u2019re ready at a moment\u2019s notice to be upcycled into handy cord tags for any gadget around the house.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Jennifer Tuohy<\/a> is a tech savvy, eco-friendly writer for The Home Depot, with expertise in DIY upcycling projects that re-use everyday items that we would usually throw away. For more cord management products and ideas, visit The Home Depot.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Get frustrated figuring out which cord goes where? Here’s a project that shows you how to upcycle plastic bread tags into a cord organizer system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":18167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[7400,7506,7505,7308,5,7509,7510,7511,7508,7507,5621],"yoast_head":"\n