I do the same thing getting out of my car, but only because I don’t want to lock myself out. I have to stand outside the car, gripping my keys firmly and staring directly at them as I push the lock button down before I can shut the door. Keys not in sight = door not getting locked.
After many years of constantly searching for my keys; I’ve finaly have got into the practice of putting them in the same place.
I was almost tempted to buy one of these once.
Well, you could get this kit. I like how they recommend it for eyeglasses – look at the size of the things!
Or you could do what racinchikki does, and panic and cry until your SO finds them for you.
I never lose my keys, because I always put them in the same place when I take them out of my pocket. It they’re not on the desk, then they’re in the pockets of the pants I wore the previous day. Now, if only I had a similarly efficient system for preventing the loss of my pants…
Perdiphobe…heh.
I keep all my keys on the same ring. That way, I’ll need to produce the whole key-shebang so often that, when it gets lost, I will notice in time to retrace my steps. I need that. At least twice a month I will try to open the front door, only to notice my keys are still in my bike. :rolleyes:
I have an extra set of the whole ring of keys, in a secure place. With everything in one ring, that is necessary.
I’ve also taken precautions in case I lose my keys outside the house. On my key-ring, I keep one of those labels that asks the good finder to send it to a secure adress. They can just throw the key ring in the nearest postbox and through the agency it will find its way back to me. Before I found out about that opportunity, I used a friends adress who lived in an guarded apartment-complex, so burglars would be discouraged.
This won’t work when I lose my bag (with my adress in it), but in such cases, all is lost anyway.
Someone once pointed out to me that keys are always found in the last place you look. So I check there first.
Keyhooks just inside the entrance. When I come home, I hang my keys even before I shut the front door.
I pray. I know it sounds simplistic, but every time my husband or I have lost our keys (or his wallet or his cell phone), I stop and pray. And every time we find the lost item within a very short period of time. So then I always say a thank-you prayer after the item is located.
At this time I don’t recall ever having to find my key as I never lose them.I put them in the same spot every time I walk in my door…well OK I did lock them in the car about a year ago, man I almost cried.
Now I have two of those magnetic “hide-a-keys”. One to get in the car, the other hidden inside the car for the ignition.BTW I have spare apt keys hidden with my spare ignition.
And if you somehow manage to lock yourself out of car and apartment? 
I had a system similar to NinjaChick’s last year. My keys were on a ring, attached to one of those coiled wristbands, with my ID on another ring on the same wristband. When I left my room in the morning, my keys went in my right pocket with my ID hanging out, or if I didn’t have pants pockets, I wedged the keychain into a belt-loop so it wouldn’t move. I never lost my keys, or my ID.
This year, my keys are either in my pants pocket on beside my bed. Occasionally they might be in my purse or my jacket pocket, again because my pants don’t have (usuable) pockets. My ID goes in my purse, which is less convenient, but since it doesn’t get me free meals on campus anymore, I rarely need it.
I wander round wherever I’ve lost them saying “here keys, come on keys, good keys”. They eventually turn up.
I keep all my keys on a carabiner, which clips to a belt loop. I never lose keys since I started doing that compulsively whenever I leave the house.
I am also in the habit of patting down my pockets for my wallet and smokes and such whenever I am leaving a particular location - this helps significantly.
When I come in, I use the hooks inside the back door. It took a bit of training for me to learn to always use the hooks, especially if I come in a different door. At this point it’s habit.
oh yeah, and Althea and I both carry each other’s spare car key on our keyring, and we keep a spare house key hidden in a hollow rock in the neighbor’s yard. (she does the same - we figure it’s slightly safer than in our own yard.)
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I’m like numerous other posters, I have a hook for my keys and I use it religiously. I used to lose my keys all the time and it frustrated the crap outta me. So I started using the hook and I can’t tell you how many hours of aggravation it’s saved me…
Like most of you, I try to keep my keys in the same place. When I have misplaced my keyes (or anything else for that matter), I find that retracing my steps since I last had the keys helps me find them.
Buried in the cat box?
I ask my wife.
It’s what she’s there for.
I have lost my keys a total of once in my entire life. Actually, technically they’re not lost since I know where they are - the bottom of the San Marcos river.
Now this is a good idea.
I just saw this thread only to find out that you beat me to my post vetbridge.
I used to always lose my keys. I inadvertently solved the problem after I took a CPR class at work. They gave everyone a CPR mask in a 4" x 4" x 4" neon orange carrying case. I attached it to my key chain and voila! It’s virtually impossible to lose my keys anymore. The CPR mask is so big that it doesn’t fit comfortably in a pocket. And the neon orange sticks out like a sore thumb. It even glows in the dark.
My keys now always end up in my desk drawer, clipped to my purse (I also have a big metal clip on it, similar to how a dog leash attaches to the collar), or in the designated cubby hole at home.
Maybe I wasn’t clear. I have a hide-a-key on the outside of the car, that one only gets you in the car, doesn’t start it. Then hidden inside my car is another key (ignition).Along with the ignition are my apt keys, you dig?
BTW it’d take someone hours to find the hidden car door key. Then hours on top of that to find ignition/apt keys. Not that a gone-in-60-seconds type would need keys.