There was a poll at macosxhints.com asking how many cords users have for their computers. So I did a little checking:

Each of the following have both a power cord and a data cord (USB, FireWire, or VGA): Printer, Floppy, CD burner, external hard drive, scanner, monitor, 1 powered USB hub (7x2=14)

Each of the following only have a single USB cable: SmartMedia reader, keyboard, mouse, 2 unpowered USB hubs (5). There's also a dangling cord which is used by my digital camera (so, 6).

The computer itself has a power cord and an ethernet cord (2) which links to a powered ethernet hub (2) = 4

The ethernet cord runs to the apartment router (I'm not including my roomate's computers) (2) which runs to the cable modem (2) = 4.

Between them all I use 3 power strips (3). My computer, though, goes to a UPS (1 extra cord) which has USB monitoring (1 more USB cord). = 4

Total: 33 cords. I'm frightened.