Question of the Month: How do you Organise Your Components? (or don't you?)

I have a tackle box with clear bins. I take the bins out and look at them. for parts parts, so mcus, connectors, dev boards, etc. 
discrete components, are in a cabinet. I do keep things on the reel, but only when designated containers are full. 
if you looked at my desk, you might also see chaos. 

I hate stuff in bags. I cleaned a friends work space earlier this year, and took out a garbage bag full of bags. Favorite was when I found multiple bags of bags. just bags.
well I got him some trading card sleeves, and put most of the components into sleeves into binders.  took the labels off the bags and stuck them in the sleeves with the components. 

I for my own use keep one junk box as unavoidable evil. when that box gets full, I parse that. 


Guys at work, my friends have 100 junk boxes. My thinking is that all junk boxes are chaos, and that 1 chaos + N chaos = 1 chaos. 
so all the junk boxes can be consolidated, or organized, I dont care which. 

I mean I get it, Im frequently working on a dozen or so projects. project reminats, finished projects, current projects all in the same space. 
all my plc stuff is mounted on din rails. got 15 or so laptops and IPCs, Im using 3, but what if I need the parts?  so I also have boxes of PSUs, cables etc, loosely sorted. 
laptop power: its own box.
5,12V regs, thier own boxes.
everything else is in the chaos PSU drawer.

damn it, I can do better, guess I better clean up in here.

I have a tackle box with clear bins. I take the bins out and look at them. for parts parts, so mcus, connectors, dev boards, etc. 
discrete components, are in a cabinet. I do keep things on the reel, but only when designated containers are full. 
if you looked at my desk, you might also see chaos. 

I hate stuff in bags. I cleaned a friends work space earlier this year, and took out a garbage bag full of bags. Favorite was when I found multiple bags of bags. just bags.
well I got him some trading card sleeves, and put most of the components into sleeves into binders.  took the labels off the bags and stuck them in the sleeves with the components. 

I for my own use keep one junk box as unavoidable evil. when that box gets full, I parse that. 


Guys at work, my friends have 100 junk boxes. My thinking is that all junk boxes are chaos, and that 1 chaos + N chaos = 1 chaos. 
so all the junk boxes can be consolidated, or organized, I dont care which. 

I mean I get it, Im frequently working on a dozen or so projects. project reminats, finished projects, current projects all in the same space. 
all my plc stuff is mounted on din rails. got 15 or so laptops and IPCs, Im using 3, but what if I need the parts?  so I also have boxes of PSUs, cables etc, loosely sorted. 
laptop power: its own box.
5,12V regs, thier own boxes.
everything else is in the chaos PSU drawer.

damn it, I can do better, guess I better clean up in here.