COLUMBIA, Md. — Benjamin Kintisch has a system to his keychains.

Its one he says his daughter came up with, not long after he created the Little Free Keychain Library in his backyard in Columbia. He said its organized by theme.

"I go from the actual animal to the whimsical animal to the extinct, so dinosaurs live here, so to speak," he said.

The keychains are hung on an old theater box. Some of them he buys but most he makes with trinkets he either buys or are donated to him.

"The kind of junk they give you at birthday parties that are 45 seconds of fun and then you forget it," he said. "If they’re collecting dust and in your way tripping on them, I’ll take them off your hands, repurpose it and bring to light to other people."

Bringing light and joy to others was Kintisch's motivation

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