How do you organize all this turntable paraphernalia??

I have a beautiful antique side board that resides within a few feet of my equipment rack; all that crap is in drawers of the side board. One drawer has fuses, spare ICs for repair of vintage DD turntables, and the like. Another bigger drawer has the 20 or so cartridges not currently in use. Another has the bigger heavier stuff, like power cords, meters, spare tonearm mount boards, protractors, etc. Another has owners manuals for each TT and my CDP. In plane view on top of the side board, I keep certain select LPs and box sets, especially the Mosaic sets. Of course, I know where everything is. Of course.

This would give you something to listen to while performing maintenance.

My gear is located in a converted hallway linen closet and I left the top 3 shelves intact for storage (one shelf for HiFi stuff and the other two for folded clothing).

DeKay

What about a tackle "style" box (just an example from a quick Google)?

DeKay

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I've been using that format for years, just difficult to find new releases for it.

I have a smallish box of approx' L10" x W8" x H3" local to the TT to house and protect items being referred to from dust.

The Box is a Far Eastern Carved Design and has been owned for as long as I have had children, so it is a Box that will be making very old bones with myself, as are the LP's. Sentiment gives the box a whole new value.

In another location on a shelving system, I have a very basic set of matched plastic clip lid boxes that are a formed with a variety of dimensions and a stackable design and are of a colour match to blend in with the room treatments. These do not look out of place and house all the bits to be buried but not forgotten, Cartridges, Valves, Connectors, footers. Since using this nice little selection of boxes, there is no need to rummage through cupboards looking for misplaced items with a value.

I wish I put an earliest built Phonostage in to one of these, that has not been found for a long time, the Blackgates are quite valuable and lost.

If one would like to be uber organised a list of parts contained could be taped to the concealed on the underside of a Box or Box Lid.