Hot take: IKEA pegboards are overrated for office storage

I stopped by a friend's place in Portland last weekend and he had this whole wall of Skadis boards. Looked neat at first but I noticed everything was just... sitting there. Pens, cables, little trinkets all collecting dust. For the price of those boards and hooks you could get a proper shelf system that actually holds stuff without it falling off every time you reach for a charging cable. Am I the only one who thinks these things are more about looks than function?

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bell.jessica16d ago

Honestly, you're totally right. It's like the whole thing is just a Pinterest aesthetic that looks good in photos but falls apart the second you actually try to use it for real life. Tbh, I'd rather just have a couple of cheap bins on a shelf than deal with hooks that always pop off when you grab something.

mason.drew16d ago

Read an article that said those popular pegboard setups actually fail because people overload them with stuff they don't use. Basic bins for the win.

alext5216d ago

Those cheap bins actually sound way more practical, you just totally changed my mind about that whole setup.