Well, I could give you some serious competition!!!
I haven't counted my singles yet, and probably never will. A rough guess is 3-4K. A few days ago the disorganized mess finally got to me. Ugh! I've decided not to hang my display cabinets, at least not yet. In case it might help, I've listed the various categories of chips and the storage methods I've decided to use. This excludes my sets, which at the moment are in racks on a bookshelf (5-high max, for now), in Warnecke-style boxes, or in wood display/storage cases.
1, Casino chips, U.S., including card rooms -- basically chips that are listed in The Chip Guide. Duplicates, which are loosely known to me as traders, will be stored in an aluminum chip case with all chips in alphabetical order. [Assume alphabetical order for all subcategories.] The main chips are in 2.5" cardboard flips that are in trays that hold the chips perfectly (Rubbermaid, found at Target) grouped by state, with Nevada subgroups of Las Vegas and not Las Vegas.
1a. Series (e.g., Flamingo Laughlin Dry Heat, Wynn YOT) are in 20-chip pages in a binder.
2. Wet chips and Foreign chips, also in 2.5" cardboard flips that are in the same type of tray as domestic casino chips.
3. Samples of what I call "commercial lines" (e.g., Speakeasy, Key West, Protégé, Pharaoh's) in are in Warnecke-style boxes.
4. Samples of customs are in binders, arranged in alphabetical order by title. Eventually I'd like to identify all the sets with the name of their member, year of production, manufacturer, colors, and insert patterns. This will never happen.
5. Manufacturer's color and mold samples are in Warnecke-style boxes stored in a cabinet.
6. Advertising chips are in Warnecke-style boxes stored in a cabinet.
7. Personal chips will be in Warnecke-style boxes stored in a cabinet. They're currently in binders, but I need more binder space.
8. Special chips are in air-tites and stored in chip racks.
The cardboard flips that I use have Mylar windows for safety. If any binder pages are not safe for archival purposes, the chips are in archival-quality flips.
EVERYTHING is arranged in alphabetical order, so I can find stuff.
I use
Collector's Assistant for the casino chips.
I'll upload a few photos later today. Three photos in post #14.