First thing I do is snip off all the wires so my computer is wireless.

21 $ for a bend piece of steel? Hahaha.

Good amount of velcro and zipties?

Many great options:

Seems Ikea has a smaller, but cheaper option (Other comment shows the larger tray):

Loose cables, something like this:

Box to put extension inside, ground level though:

More Cable covers:

Another desk tray:

Floor cable organizer:

Gutters. Go to your local Home Depot clone, get 8 feet (or cut one shorter) of vinyl gutter and some clips to hang them under your desk. Cut to length, hang under your desk.

I like the look of that one as it hides everything but it also hides everything so it could be hard to manage a bunch of cables and power bars but once it’s setup up how often would you need to go in there?

I’ve used many of these over the years in office setups from IKEA. It’s a open design but with lots of places to hook wire loops.

Looking at some of the ready-made options and… damn? If they’re that expensive you might look into printing off your own.

https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=cable+tray&page=1

https://thangs.com/search/under desk cable tray?scope=all

My university has a 3d printer I use for stuff like this sometimes. Some of the better funded public libraries might have them too.

Ikea has a pretty cheap cable tray. I use it under my desk, and it’s worked pretty well.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/signum-cable-management-horizontal-silver-color-30200253

I’ve used 3M Command light clips for my under-desk cable management for years. It’s a little more fiddly on the initial setup, but is very low-profile and you can put the cables exactly where you want them.

I’m happy with 4x of these trays from Monoprice, cheaper than everything else posted so far as well. Fits a beefy power strip (don’t cheap out on power) with room to stuff cables and power bricks. https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=33815

Am I the only one seeing the black bird with grey beak sitting on its tush typing at a laptop in the thumbnail?

Beyond The Office Door has some good reviews of cable management options on their YouTube channel. Their review of the LTT options was particularly well done.

https://youtu.be/yrrRj-F-vJ0

Most power strips have screw mounting options on the bottom. You could just mount the power strip directly to the desk “upside down”.

Then use double sided Velcro to group all your wires together

I’ve seen this done with a section of vinyl gutter before. If you do an image search for pictures there are lots of examples. The version I saw was a reddit link, which I will not utter here.

If you don’t care about the underside of your desk, buy a box of cable clamps and hammer those fuckers in a line along the back edge.

Then buy a bunch of tiny zipties and zip them to the clips. Leave enough room so if you need to, you can get a pair of scissors in and cut the ziptie off.

Saving this for later