💬 Every charger in our flat ends up on one power strip

There's one power strip behind our sofa in Khobar and every charger we own ends up on it. I bought it in 2021 for 2 phones. Now it has 9 things plugged in and 3 hanging off the side. Nobody decided this. My younger daughter left her tablet cable there one night and the rest just followed. It's like a bus stop for wires. Nothing ever leaves, new ones keep arriving every week. Last Friday my elder daughter couldn't find her earphone charger. She searched for 20 minutes and blamed her sister. I pulled the whole bunch out. Found 2 cables none of us could name, one with a round pin. My younger daughter held one up and said, this is from Dad's old phone. We sold that phone in 2019. We kept the cable anyway. It's in a drawer now, in a small bag with a label on it. Every 3 months I sort the strip out. Throw the broken ones, tape a name on the rest, feel like a hero. The tape lasts about 2 weeks. Then someone borrows a charger and the label goes missing for good. I tried a plastic basket from the supermarket, 15 riyals. Now the basket is also full of cables. The laptop charger only works if you tilt it to the left. I stopped asking why a long time ago. Yesterday I counted again. 11 things. The strip has a tiny red light and it blinks at me. I'm scared to buy a second strip. That would just give the cables more room to settle in. Tonight I'll sort it out again. Same speech, same tape, same mess by the time Sunday comes round. My younger daughter just walked past and plugged in her tablet. She didn't even look at it.

A bus stop for wires is the best description of a power strip I have heard. We have a similar one behind our TV, and last month I found a charger on it for a phone nobody has owned for 4 years. Maybe label each cable with a small tag. It took me one evening, and now my brother finds his charger in 5 seconds.

Ours is a kitchen drawer that also somehow holds rubber bands, expired coupons, and a single chopstick with no pair. I have reorganized it four times this year alone and it always returns to chaos within a week. At this point I have accepted that the drawer has its own agenda and my job is just to find things in it faster, not to fix it.