How Do You Keep Headphone Wire Untangled?

This is still a mystery to me. Does anyone have a cure for this?

I have a set of Sony in-ear earbuds that go behind the neck. Everytime I curl it up into a little ball and put it in my pocket, it wraps around itself over and over magically just to annoy me. The next time I pull them out, I have to spend five minutes trying to split the messed up wire. How can this be prevented? Any (small) tool or trick?

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  1. 1September 12th, 2005Leo says

    Well what most of my friends and I do is wrap the cord around the music player. It isn’t perfect but it does seem to work quite well…

  2. 2September 12th, 2005Oliver Zheng says

    I have the Creative Muvo mp3 player — it’s tiny. If I wrap the cord around it it’ll take 20 minutes.

  3. 3September 16th, 2005Benke says

    Step one: Wrap the cord around two or more fingers of your choice.
    Step two: Fix the coil with a rubber band
    Step three: Put it in your pocket

  4. 4September 16th, 2005Oliver Zheng says

    Ah but that includes a rubber band.

  5. 5September 17th, 2005Kevin says

    Ah, but you mentioned “small tool or trick.” Well, technically, a rbber band is small… It doesn’t exactly cost a lot either.

  6. 6September 17th, 2005Oliver Zheng says

    I was thinking more like a commercial product — but this suits my needs I guess. Now the only thing is I don’t know where I’d hide from the shame when I use one of those things to bind my headphone cord.

  7. 7September 21st, 2005heyyyy says

    they sell cable organizers at radioshack and stuff that are fairly cheap and look really cool. Some include www.smartwrap.net and www.cableorganizer.com

  8. 8September 21st, 2005heyyyy says
  9. 9September 21st, 2005Oliver Zheng says

    I’ve seen the latter two links, but wow that Smartwrap looks really small and handy. Who knew one small piece of plastic in a particular shape could be so handy. Thanks for that — I’ll definitely check it out.

  10. 10September 26th, 2005heyyyy says

    no prob

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