I have too many keyboards. But the real travesty of it all is that I have too many keycaps. And none of them are stored properly. I have a tote full of keycaps, none of them collected by set, just mixed together. What kind of monster does that? Apparently, that’s me.

The thing is, I don’t know what to do about it. Some of the sets would be easy to separate, as they’re pretty unique. A lot of them, however, kind of look the same. I have a thing, apparently, for beige and gray keycaps, and have multiple sets in different form factors. Getting them all together by set would be damn near impossible, and even if I were to try, it’d probably take me days.

I’ve thought about either leaving them as-is or tossing them out. None are particularly expensive (my most expensive sets are easily identifiable), so tossing them out or recycling them wouldn’t be a big loss. But it would be wasteful. I’ve got some new little containers for my switches, which is what got me thinking about the caps. I can now store my switches properly, but the caps are going to continue to be a mess until I figure out what to do with them.

I’ve been a good boy for about six months. I’ve not bought any new keyboards nor have I bought any new cap sets. I did buy some more switches, but that’s just because I had one die and need to replace like for like. I’m pretty well set on the switches I like (box purples), so I will only ever buy when I need some. Probably.

For those of you who collect keyboards, how do you manage the cap situation?