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Would the opposite of a keeper be … an adoptee?
Little story. My cleaning lady sucked the P key off my keyboard without realizing it. No big deal, ordered new key caps. My older kid (14) has really taken to my love of mech’s, so when these came he wanted to swap them. However he realized how gross this keyboard was. So he wanted to make it a little dad / son project. Since it’s a bit of a toss away, I let him run it through the dishwasher to clean up all the grime. Then he decided to paint it, so he masked it all off. A bunch of matte blue coats later he was re-keying the board. The end result came great, amplified by the fact that my 14 year old did it for me. >

What kind of paint did you use? >

Just some basic Rustoleum 2x (Paint + Primer) matte blue spray paint that we had lying around. >

You mean primer right?:) >

Fixed. Oops! >

Great son you have there 👌 >

Definitely a keeper. I love that he enjoys random upgrade projects like this.  The keyboard was essentially a toss away, but I appreciate that he wanted to swap the keys and clean it up. The value to me went up 10 fold just because of the effort he put into it to learn.