Solutions:
1/ Coil them around the palm of your hand, and weave the last foot-or-so around and through the coil. Advantage: You can see the connectors easily. Disadvantage: you have to uncoil them carefully.

2/ Use twist-ties available from garden shops and supermarkets at tiny cost. Advantage: You can see the connectors. Disadvantage: You lost the twist tie, didn't you. And you can't remember where you put the pack of 973 unused ones, can you!

I store mine in three plastic bags, audio-computer-TV, and one day I will make the effort to have differently-coloured bags.....

Extension cords, the socket and the plug plug into themselves.
The one I carry in the van, I stretch it out and coil it neatly, and there is a loop of cord permanently tied at the plug end, which loops through the coil and holds it neatly. Never a problem.


If you think cable fairies are infuriating, don't tangle with the hosepipe storage fairy.