Does anyone have advice on better ways to store my controllers than just throwing them on the floor or in with their respective consoles? It feels like just a lot of needless clutter, but I don’t know how to keep them out of the way but also readily available
Realistically, do you need to keep ALL of those controllers readily available? Looking especially at those older PlayStation and GameCube ones. I second the small bin suggestion, but I’d also suggest taking a look at which consoles you’re currently playing regularly and if there are some you don’t use as often, those are controllers you can store in a closet or something. Also how many people are playing? Do you need to keep controllers for players 2-4 out and accessible? Those are also ones you can store elsewhere
Take everything out, dust off every consoles and shelf thoroughly, keep anything not consoles related elsewhere. You don’t need two GameCube at the same time, you don’t need more than one controller for one console at a time. Put everything else in a plastic box with a lid. It would already be a good start.
Bins that you can slide into the little spaces in that cabinet. So you can put them in their spot when you’re done also a bin for the cords and maybe a cord tie with a tag of where it goes so you don’t have a rough time finding them.
I have a cube shelf with fabric bins that I throw all my stuff into, like one’s my Xbox shit, another is iPhone cords, another box is usb-c cables, etc. That way you can hide the clutter.
Ikea sells these tool holder walls which can easily be turned into a console, gaming equipment holder
https://preview.redd.it/vx0eujsn2yod1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e9b6d0b373e9106ea5ff44c776104bc0983a669
tbh you need a general clean up before you start with these micromanagement solutions. declutter and reorganize the shelf and see how much space you really need
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My OCD just flared up looking at this picture.
Ikea has a cube storage shelf called Kallax.
You can choose whatever insert you want in these cubes, and we’ve got drawers with little smooth cut-aways in the top right corner, that are basically handles, but also really handy for trailing wires through and storing the controllers without having to unplug anything.
You could have the consoles in an upper open cube, then store all the controllers (and all those random accessories for the consoles) beneath in their drawers. This way you can keep it all accessible but a lot less messy to look at.
They also have little cupboard options, if a drawer isn’t big enough. It’s all just called Kallax 🙂
I feel your pain. Gaming systems are a pain in the butt with all those cables.
Link to the drawers:
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/kallax-insert-with-2-drawers-wave-shaped-white-90508508/
> Grab a trash bag and throw every little piece of clutter away (papers, food, excess of cables)
> Sit down of the floor in front of the cabinet and start taking items one by one and fold the cables nicely with a rubber band and line them up in the floor around you, the point is emptying the cabinet.
> Grab a cloth and some cleaning product for furniture and clean the cabinet, the consoles, the controllers and the cables.
> Now start putting things back going from the ones you must have plugged in. Once you run out of space in your cabinet, that’s it. Stop. Hook up those systems but leave their controllers on the side for now.
> Buy some of those transparent plastic organizers that can be pile up and put the controllers for the hooked systems there and see if you can keep those boxes at display somewhere arround the cabinet.
> For the non-plugged systems, the consoles themselves can go to a shelf to have them on display (more ready available that put it in storage, but also creates clutter). The controller cables for those systems need to go to a plastic box.
> Games and cartrigdes can go to a library like forniture depending of the amount you have. Prioritize games of the systems plugged in. I’d suggest plastic boxes if they create too much clutter. I personally choose systems that can read games from memory.
> You can adquire bigger furniture that would allow you to have more stuff at hand, but honestly I don’t think is worth it. Try to organize yourself and see what you use the most.
> Another good thing to do is pick a place in your cabinet and make it “the hotswap” place. See if you can run a video cable extension and a power outlet to that place so it is easy to plug a console there quickly so you don’t have to untidy your cables everytime you get in the mood for something that’s not connected.
Enjoy!
I use a drawer in my tv stand for some of mine. The rest are on chargers I bought them next to the tv. Although I just have like 3 switch controllers that are not joycons a xbox and 2 ps5 controllers not as many as you
Drawers, drawers, drawers. Get a new cupboard that has drawers. If that’s not possible, find some stackable boxes like Ikea Samla (best if they aren’t see through – but then you’ll need to label them). Make sure the drawers are as flat as possible so that you can store all the stuff next to each other rather than having things on top of other things – easy access to everything. They also hide the clutter.
For the controllers, if they are wired, you’ll ned to roll them up, as you’re already doing it.
There are controller stands available, both generic(https://www.amazon.de/KDD-Kopfh%C3%B6rer-Halterung-Controller-Anschl%C3%BCsse-Schwarz/dp/B0B7JSWD4F/ref=sr_1_5) and some are even specialized for a certain console. Some of them also act as charging stations. This is an option if you’d rather like to store them outside for better access. Ask yourself how often you’ll use each individual console, and make a decision whether to hide or not hide the controller based on this.
i used to work at a video game library that kept large quantities of controllers on hand, and the best advice i have is to get shoebox sized boxes and store controllers in them by type. we had one of those cube shelves you can get at ikea and then each shelf had its own lil box, and each box had its own controllers and accessories (ie xbox controllers and wireless dongles in one, wii motes and nun chucks in another, etc). frankly, this system wasnt the best, but it was all we could come up with short of commissioning a specially made rack.
I would use the dual prong hooks to attach to the side of the storage shelf. You can even line them up to hang beside their respective consoles
I keep mine on their charging stations, but I also have way less.