I have the female version to this answer (since I am the rope roller in our camp). I have a coin bag (easily borrowed from any bank) and some thick lacky bands (easily borrowed from work) and lots of them. The lacky bands get removed and stowed as each rope goes out (unless you are the Bloke and then the Sheila has to find them and return them to the lacky band bag ... the Sheila must also provide new ones if they break and bin the broken one).
I do a zig zag formation with the rope against the spring thing and then tie off with a lacky band. Each rope is done seperately but the same. Front awning ropes go together in one as they have no spring. I also use a carabiner type thing on 3 of the spring things, where we tie up the dogs ... these get placed to the one side of the awning in a 3 dog formation away from the fire and their leads go up the rope with the lead attachment holding them secure (it's a technique we use to find the ends quickly if required).
Ropes we don't normally use are tied together in a seperate bundle in the same canvas bag, but at one end, so I never have too many ropes loose in there and it gives me no choice in which ones to use. Pegs and hammer go into the same canvas bag and stowed together.
I have seen people colour coding ropes with pegs (with spray paint), but that seems too hard to me, especially if I'm in a hurry and it's dark.
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