Elizabethan Cable Collar

I like to give charge to my mobile phone at my workplace, as it's the only time I am likely to remember this chore. To keep the wires neat and tidy on my, otherwise ramshackle, desk, I feed them through the brush clad holes that the designers have so kindly incorporated into its fine veneer, so that only the useful end need be visible.

When not in use, I tuck the cable back through the hole so that only a minimal length is protruding. Ideally only the plug would be exposed but I find that gravity, being so determined, will often tug at my cord and pull the whole length to the floor.

I've tried many approaches to ease my woes: jamming the plug underneath my mug (I forget when I sup my coffee), leaving a greater length of cable exposed (I cannot bear the tangled mess), pushing the plug some distance up my left nostril (it hurts and people stare), but no avail.

Just last week I had an eureka moment and fashioned a small collar from a circle of corrugated cardboard coffee cup sleeve. Piercing a hole in its centre for the cable and cutting a slit to the centre to allow it to be attached makes the plug’s extent a little larger than the hole. My delighted plug now has all its needs to resist the powerful persuassions of gravity.

So I propose: an integrated collar for every phone charger plug, perhaps detachable for those who do not find favour with its function and almost certainly made of folds of fine lace.