They need to be sorted by gauge, colour, length and strand count.

My Dad kept a Ziploc bag on his workbench with little pieces of string in it, and he labeled it "Pieces of string too short to save." It was a joke, and visitors got a kick out of it.

I love this! There was Autism, it was just called by other names, like pervasive developmental disorder, dementia infantalis, sociopathy, childhood schiozphrenia, idiocy, mental retardation, being "slow", and more horrible names. We've come a long way.