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Um - Where's the answer:
"In a drawer of the coffee table/end table"?

Because that's where mine live.

Ah! I've been trying to figure out a place to put mine for so long, instead of just on the coffee table. I really like the glass jar idea.

I store them next to the dictionary.Hint hint.

The ones for the audio equipment go on top of the receiver (in a bookshelf). The TV/Wii/DVD/VCR ones go on the lower shelf of the coffee table.

In a gorgeous shallow ceramic vase...
store them in style, right!?

in the coffee table hidden shelf

I second that -- respell "dilemma"...
and rephrase "in their own bedroom" please.
Do you mean somewhere specific...
like beside the tv, in a container, in a drawer, in a box, in a vase, on a tray, on a wooden plate... et cetera

OWN BEDROOM?
huh???
um ok.
how about on top of the ottoman...
waiting for use!

We use a cute kids' tin bucket with a handle. It sits next to our seating and can be passed around or can sit on the table. Hiding them away some where doesn't work for us.

i have something similar to the picture... a white ikea plant pot that was just sitting around holds them on my bookshelf... we have to keep them away from our toddler.

I use a remote control organizer/caddy, think I bought it at BB&B. Also available at Amazon.

The universal remote mainly lives on the coffee table as paperweight to newspapers being read, but the remotes in general live in a pretty gift tray shelved underneath the tv system and beside the stereo.

On a shelf in the coffee table, or on one of the shelves in the TV stand.

Huh... I just realized I don't have any remote controls in my apartment. I seriously never really noticed that. I guess that's what happens when you don't have cable.

On a tray or sometimes, accidentally, between the sofa cushions.

Wow my post disappeared!? no hard feelings.
How about on a wooden tray on a shelf beside the tv -- accessible and stylish!

I have a little box for them. It's dark wood, square... I have no idea why I bought it, but it became a remote holder over time.

Um just think the "their own bedroom" option is an odd choice of words that's all, Sarahrae. Just my opinion.
Where's the "in a special, designated place (not labelled)" option?
In a *drawer* -- that's where I store my collection.

I use a vintage animal crackers tin to corral my remotes - works well except for that tiny appletv remote - which I try to put on top of it so we dont lose it... but we have iphones which work as a remote so it's not too big of a deal :)

-Ruth

cptnruthless- your iphone works as a remote?! WOAH! that blows my mind! i'm so behind on technology...i've just been figuring out that my parents huge lcd/plasma (i've got no clue what i'm talking about here) is so much better than my tube tv. && i had no idea i could hook my laptop up to a larger monitor. this is SO sad, i'm 22, i'm supposed to be "up" on these kinds of things!!

I said "free range," but I guess they're more "in a pen" (aka the middle shelf of our nightstand). They live happily there along wtih cell phones, mp3s, and other similar-shaped gadgets.

I place them on this cute sari tray from Pier 1: http://www.pier1.com/Catalog/Dining/tabid/493/List/0/CategoryID/111/level/a/ProductID/1784/ProductName/Sari-Tray--Antiqued-Red/Default.aspx

I have my remotes in the top left drawer of the card catalog in my living room.

I honestly don't get the issue with the, "Their Own Bedroom" line. I took it as, they had so many remote that they had to give them a room to themselves. Was that not the intent?

Anyway, I gave my two cents about this in the Unpluggd artcile:

http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/organizing/too-many-remotes-heres-an-idea-for-clearing-your-coffee-table-076916

one of those round stainless steel kitchen utensil holders from IKEA

I used to have a pretty basket that they all got put it to. But we finally got a universal remote, so now we just have one for everything and it just hangs out on the coffee table.

In principle, in a small basket but they seem to have a life of their own.

In my coffee table

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36312549@N07/34

Um.... none of the above? In a bean pot, but they're often roaming around on the coffee table.

I bought a large used book (on a subject I don't fancy) and cut space for them with an exacto knife.

Now if I could only find a way to get my husband to put them back!

God, we really need to do something to corral the remotes. I'll bet if I dug around in the basement I could find a cute jar or something...

the other night i found my remote under the cat

I keep mine in a wooden cutlery tray in the coffee table shelf

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24275811@N02/3407205887/

The tray is this one...from a vintage 60s sideboard
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24275811@N02/3407216723/

I put them in a carnival glass biscuit jar.

In a square basket, with the DVDs from the library.

Mine are in a little wooden recipe box on the end table next to the sofa so they are out of the way but within reach.

I use ikea remote control pocket.
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/50129977

Ours just sit on top of the coffee table. I highly recommend logitech universal remotes. It's cool freaky sometimes, but all I have to do is bump the couch and it lights up, ready for use.

I have come up with all kinds of nice place to keep the remote, training the rest of the family to use this places is the problem.

I found an old safe deposit box at Architectural Artifacts - it's long and narrow shape is perfect for remotes.

On the coffee table of course - well actually the built in shelf under the top of it.