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I think I'm a bit slacker at home, but with other people's cables, especially at places I anticipate working at again. They get:
The trick with masking tape (or any other tape as a cable tie) is to go round backwards once (so the sticky side does not touch the cable), until it sticks to itself backwards, then fold it back and go round "the normal way", then once you're fully round the normal way, you fold the end over into a little "quick release tab". You can write a label on it, you can open it easily, it stays stuck to itself, so doesn't come off, it doesn't leave sticky residue all over (y)our cables.
Sometimes the cables are all stored in once place. Sometimes they're stored with a relevant object (I.e. a HDMI cable with a TV or Projector). The box of the object will be labelled to say if it contains such a cable.
I don't control their end destination, so that's someone else's task.
At home they'd just go into boxes, separated for power leads, USB leads, AV leads, misc, misc 2, "old", "stuff"and "things".
[Edit] Also, your tool and cable wall is beautiful. That's what mine is meant to look like :)
That photo is not mine, I was just looking for an example so that people would know what I'm talking about
I like that you have the length of wire written on the wire, that's a cool tip! I don't use tape, I just fold the cables in on themselves if that makes sense, but I appreciate the trick with keeping the sticky side away from the tape