Why your setup needs a pegboard

October 12, 2022

I recently became a pegboard convert.

My wife had been trying to convince me to put one up in a small office we have at home, but my memory of crappy old pegboards made me skeptical.

Traditional pegboards were always substandard: The pegs were thin, fiddly and came out easily. The pegboard itself often disintegrated.

Plus, traditional pegboards are ugly.

But my wife picked up a modern-style pegboard, and it's been great.

It actually looks good, and you can get a ton of handy accessories, from hooks to small trays for miscellanea.

We now have everything hanging off it: headphones, charging cables and office supplies.

The pegboard has been a smashing success, and now we have another one in the kitchen for frying pans and saucers.

I'm thinking of putting one up in the bedroom and a couple more in the garage.

I can't get enough of them, and you'll be converted, too, after checking out our latest Setups post, which shows clearly why pegboards prove so handy and versatile.

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

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"That’s an incredible feeling to know that you had something to do with it, to know it can be done. To know that you can plant something into the world, and it will grow -- and change the world, ever so slightly." -- Steve Jobs, 1985.

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