Time to clean out the collection? (When you forget what you actually own)

[Voixdelion]

Okay, so I definitely need some kind of support program for this keyboard addiction when I start forgetting what I actually have. This week, as I cleaned out the chaos in my room, I gazed fondly on my M5-1 and set it aside. Then, upon digging further into the stacked debris, I was puzzled to find it also there after having set it aside just before.   Confused, I looked carefully to be sure of what I was seeing, and it was indeed my M5-1, so I must have had some sort of brain fart and carried it with me over here, right?   But then, looked back and saw the other board I had set aside, right where I had set it.   I went back to examine the first keyboard, sure that I had been mistaken because I only have ONE of those (and it being such an unlikely thing to find when I first put my mind to acquire it, I was lucky to have THAT one), and was both shocked and delighted to see it was indeed another M5-1, and I was giddy with glee but couldn't figure on how I had TWO of them...   

I eventually recalled that I found an ebay listing for the thing at some stupid price like $15 bucks or some other nonsense - enough of a low price that webwit had actually commented on the find over at Deskthority after discovering the listing too late to take advantage of it. Even so, the discovery was rather like finding $200 in the pocket of an old winter coat that hadn't been worn in years... I am bit embarrassed about how happy it made me. 

I think it is probably time to admit I have a problem and need some kind of 12 step program to deal with this addiction to keyboards.  It's really not practical anymore since I seem to have found my typing niche in the blues.  And yet, I can't seem to get these others out of my house.   How can I ever use them all?  And is it at all fair to just put them on a shelf to admire them?

WTH is WRONG with me???  Who DOES that???

Geekhack, this is ALL YOUR FAULT! 



     

[tp4tissue]

There's nothing wrong with you..


It's in our design to track-progress..

for you, it's in the form of a keyboard collection..

for others, panties of the girls they've slept with...

and others.. apple juice bottle caps...

[sethk_]

I got a package today and honestly had no clue what it was, then when I opened it I found out it was the gold springs I had ordered, so I changed out my springs on my ErgoDox, and now I fully recommend ergoclears. They are easily the best switch I have ever tried.

[Voixdelion]

So, curious as to how much I spent on it, I just went and searched for the post that talked about that deal at Deskthority and it is even worse than I thought...  I apparently may have THREE of them, if the sellers in those two ebay ads delivered the goods as promised.  According to the bid history on the listings I won both auctions, one for $42 (the one I remember) and another for $72 (that I have ZERO recall about. but it was my bid that won according to the listing.)   

Which means that there is a third M5-1 lurking around here that I have yet to come across, because I definitely know the first one I bought was a non-auction deal through ebay classifieds in response to a WTB ad I posted in the vain hope of snagging one, which was surprising answered in less than 36 hours after posting it.    It was a tale of kismet, fated to be, and I know that accounts for one board. 

If I have three, that is just plain insane and one of them has GOT to go.  That is just plain unfair to hoard them.  Maybe I sold one already... I hope.   I'd better go check again...

[dante]

My obsessive compulsive tendencies have altered from keyboards to computer mice.

And I'm sure mouse pads are to follow shortly.

[Bromono]

Mine is starting to become the whole package... Keyboards, desks, mice, mousepads, studio monitors, headphones, monitors, computers, tablets. Jesus I can keep good my on....

[jdcarpe]

You sound as bad as me. Why do I have multiples of most keyboards?!?

Oh yeah, because I hoard things.

[0100010]

One is none.  Two is one.  Three is adequate.

That being said, wasn't there someone who posted a WTB for an M5 recently in the classifieds?

[ninjadoc]

You sound as bad as me. Why do I have multiples of most keyboards?!?

Oh yeah, because I hoard things.

My son saw my pile of Model M's in the basement and told my wife I'm a hoarder - the other keyboards confirmed it in his mind!

[pr0ximity]

I got a package today and honestly had no clue what it was, then when I opened it I found out it was the gold springs I had ordered, so I changed out my springs on my ErgoDox, and now I fully recommend ergoclears. They are easily the best switch I have ever tried.

Probably my next project. I think they would suit me well.

[Voixdelion]

One is none.  Two is one.  Three is adequate.

That being said, wasn't there someone who posted a WTB for an M5 recently in the classifieds?

Well then, it would seem that I have an adequate amount of them, but I think I only really need to have one.  Or rather, "one" - at least with this particular model, which is the only one I am that attached to that I feel that two is one, since getting another is highly improbable.  But two of them, while adequate, still feels a little greedy to sit on it if there is a person longing to provide feed and care and can't find one.

The other (third) one, I suspect I bought it as an investment in the possibility that I might sell it given that it's pretty uncommon to find, even here.   Perhaps it is more of the m5-1 kismet at work then, that someone might want it.   

Something HAS to be done, as I seem to be stockpiling the things to the point that I don't even know what is in there anymore.  I have GOT to get rid of some of these boards - I have at least 4 model M's of the regular sort, and somehow also the FK's are breeding in the dark of the closet.  Too many, now that I have found typing Nirvana in the Blues- they have supplanted my Alps preference.  I even like the Laser with a similar feel to the blues more than the Alps now, so I can be pretty sure I won't miss them.

Although there is the itch that makes me curious about the Browns which I have not yet tried... I'm afraid I will like them. 

[Voixdelion]

My obsessive compulsive tendencies have altered from keyboards to computer mice.

And I'm sure mouse pads are to follow shortly.

I have a DRAWER FULL of Kensington Expert trackballs --mostly the v5 but a couple of the v6 too.   And it's a  rather LARGE drawer...

AND I still get tempted to buy more of them everytime I log onto ebay.  *sigh*   

[tp4tissue]

My obsessive compulsive tendencies have altered from keyboards to computer mice.

And I'm sure mouse pads are to follow shortly.

I have a DRAWER FULL of Kensington Expert trackballs --mostly the v5 but a couple of the v6 too.   And it's a  rather LARGE drawer...

AND I still get tempted to buy more of them everytime I log onto ebay.  *sigh*   

Now THAT'''s a problem.. call HBO,  they'll want to make a documentary