Turn a tissue box into a charging station!

It's that season when everyone pulls out piles and piles of tissues again! It's a complete waste of paper but let's not let the tissue box's sacrifice go to waste~

I turned my tissue box into a charging station for my phone and other electronics so the cords aren't all over the place and I could find which cord is which really easily. I think this is really useful because it saves me a lot of frustration from untangling all my chords and also keeps them in one place so I won't lose them.

Special thanks to Lauren for giving me her tissue box.

Also, since many people, me included, are too lazy to read, I have a video tutorial of this both on my Youtube Channel and Facebook page.

Difficulty level: easy

Time required: 10 minutes

Materials needed: tissue box, pretty paper (optional), scissors/letter opener, tape

So how do you make it?

1) Prepare the box. First clear away the plastic on the tissue box. If you want it to look prettier/not like a tissue box, cover it with pretty paper (a nice magazine page, postcard, old music sheets all work really well for this). Since I'm lazy and I kind of like the design on the tissue box, I only covered the end with the logo.

materials needed:

remove the plastic thing

cover with paper (optional)

secure with tape

2) Cut the box. Mark and label spots for each chord you need. I marked one for my phone, one for my speaker, and one for my ipod. With your knife or scissors, cut a hole large enough for the charging end to come through.

mark where you're cutting the box

adjust to size of charger

3) Attach the cords. To distinguish your cords easier, color code the ends of each cord, as well as the hole on the box in which you're looping the cords through. Then loop the cords through the box so the USB end is on the outside and the charging end is on the inside.

color code!

thread through the holes

4) Adjust the cords. According to how much space you have and whether or not you want to use your phone while it's charging, pull out enough cord for the USB to attach to an outlet on one side and mark the length you need for you to use your phone on the other. Loop the excessive cords in the middle, secure with tape, and stuff it inside the tissue box. (optional: if you're putting your phone/speaker inside the tissue box, you might want to tape the loop to the walls of the tissue box.).

adjust the length you want

loop unnecessary cords

tuck into box

Done!! If you want, you can decorate it, or if you're lazy like me you don't have to.

you can tuck the speaker in

you can put stuff onto of the box

use tape to secure cords

Would I recommend you making it?

What I like about this:

It keeps all my electronics in one place so I can find it easier. Which would make it harder to lose stuff if I'm traveling. It also saved me a lot (as in around 4ft squared) of space.

What I don't like about this:

Because i'm limiting three charging items to one place, I have to switch out the USB drives because I don't have enough outlets, which makes it annoying if I have to charge all three at once (even though I usually don't have to). If you don't have two phone chargers, it would be more annoying to take just the phone charger to school/other places.

If you made this and would like to show off your own creation, or if you have any questions/comments/concern/wanna say hi to me, please put it in the comments below!!