The Upside of Downsizing Your Keyring

Key points:

Wildly overgrown key rings are avoidable.
There are several reasons to downsize your keys.
You can greatly reduce your key stack with a few simple steps.

With a little organisation, everyday key management is much easier.

At the end of an epic day, the less keys a householder has to sift through to unlock their front door, the better. Throw winter into the equation too – after dark. Heck, while we’re at it, let’s make that bag of groceries under their arm heavier. Now all we need is to factor in the onlookers in tow – some eye-rolling kids, all out of patience, perhaps – and it’s timely to ask: “Could my keychain thrive with some industrial pruning?”

“One of the big drawbacks of a crowded keyring is its disruptiveness.” – JOURNEY.

Key organisers such as JOURNEY’s LOC8 MOTION Key Organiser contain up to six keys in a neat and silent stack.

Keyrings Gone Wild

Key carriers’ keyrings over-crowd for a few key (!) reasons:

Sentimentality: The more sentimental key holders are, the likelier they are to hoard “heritage keys” on their keychain – like that quaint little one that unlocked the garage to their first home.

Over-Confidence: Contrary to all indicators, some key carriers always believe it’s a matter of days before they put that hermit key to honest work (that decade just lapsed was a mere anomaly).

Clutter Magnetism: They say they’re a magnet for clutter. Others say they don’t do anything about clutter.

You can manage your keys so key carriage is simpler, however.

A key holder organiser mutes the annoying jangle a keyring makes.

Deciding it’s Time to Downsize Your Keyring

DID YOU KNOW?

According to 2024 research (Shane Co):

Americans lose about five items per month.
Almost half of respondents name keys as one of the items they lose most frequently.
Lost items have caused more than a third of respondents to be late.

One of the big drawbacks of a crowded keyring is its disruptiveness.

In the absence of a key holder organiser, your keys are disruptive when you carry them in your pockets, retrieve them, and put them back.

Never mind when it’s time to actually use them.

It could be time to downsize your keyring if:

You feel overwhelmed by clutter (as one study from Princeton Neuroscience Institute shows, too much visual stimuli corrupts your brain’s capacity to concentrate – like watching a wall of 1000 TVs does).
Your everyday carry is too heavy and loud.
You feel like you spend too much time looking for the right key on your keyring.
You’ve lost track of all the keys you have.
You use some of the keys in your stack so infrequently that you could store them in a drawer.

With a key organiser, key carriers can arrange their keys in their preferred order to find them fast.

Steps to Downsizing

If it’s time to downsize, keep the following steps in mind.

Audit Your Keys: How many keys do you carry? Do you know what they all do? How frequently do you use each one? If they are redundant or plain foreign, cull them.

Store Your Keys Elsewhere: Keep rainy-day-keys in secure storage spaces, such as drawers, cupboards, and bags. Ensure they are in reach when you need them.

Downsize With a Key Organiser: A key organiser, such as JOURNEY’s LOC8 MOTION Key Organiser, will house your keys in a neat and silent stack.

Smart key organisers are trackable, so you can always find your keys instantly.

Unlocking Lighter Everyday Carry

If you decide your key stack is causing headaches you want to remedy now, these are the advantages you can expect from downsizing.

Your keys will be easier to store, retrieve, and carry.
You will reduce or eliminate key jangle.
You will find your keys faster.
If you use a key organiser, you can track your keys on your phone.
You will decrease damage to valuables in your pockets, and to high-use surfaces.

Looking for a key organiser to downsize with? LOC8 MOTION, a key organiser that organises up to six keys in a neat and silent stack, is available now. You can currently save 20%.