In the house! I keep two small rings on a carabiner, one ring has car key and key fob. The other ring had my door key, a card from the store, and a miniature library card. Also a dog tag from years ago. I come in the door, and drop my keys in a glass bowl one foot from the door. I go to leave this morning, and the house key ring not on the carabiner. I had to use the key to get in the door in the first place. A search of my apartment yields nothing. Checked the trash and all my pockets multiple times.To say I’m going off my nut is an understatement.
Just venting. Thanks:(
Not exactly your problem but I locked myself out of my house a couple of times decades ago. I had to break a window to get in. Since then I have had two key chains with the same keys on each. Like you I put them in the same place when I come home. I never leave the house without both sets of keys in my pockets.
It’s an awful feeling not being able to find your keys or not being able to get into your house.
Did you look in the lock? I forget mine in the lock all the time, especially if I’m carrying something.
I’ve looked everywhere multiple times. For crying out loud, it’s just a one bedroom apartment. It’s driving me crazy!
I have a bowl by the kitchen door for keys. I’m pretty good about remembering to put them there when I walk in, though I do forget sometimes. Then I have to hunt for them. Usually, I’ve shoved them in my coat pocket and I find them quickly. Other times I’ve put them down somewhere odd, and they’ve fallen behind something and it seems like only by sheer luck have I found them. Try retracing everything you did as you walked in yesterday. Were you carrying anything? Did you go to the bathroom? Where did you put your coat, or shoes? Have you looked in the fridge? Between the couch cushions?
I spent a goodly time one morning frantically searching and thinking I was going crazy before I got a text from my boyfriend telling me he’d grabbed something out of my car, then put the keys in his pocket and drove his own car to work. Good thing I had a spare set.
You’ve probably put them somewhere totally unrelated by mistake. Like in the vegetable drawer of the fridge or somewhere equally odd.
- The door?
- The fridge?
- The bathroom countertop because you had to rush in really quick?
- Gremlins.
That’s the worst, man. Especially if you live alone. It’s like…there’s only so many places it could be, and it’s loss or mis-placement is totally on you!!
Good luck. Let us know where it was when you find it!
I’m going with gremlins because I’ve looked everywhere. It might even be Evil Rich, who gets up in the middle of the night and hides things just to fuck with me. I don’t know why he hates me.
Have you taken your trash out? If not, or if it hasn’t been taken yet, check. I did that once, threw them all away. Luckily, the bag was still in the kitchen can.
Events like this are why my keys stay on my person at all times, unless they’re dangling from the ignition switch in the car. I’ve had this policy since I was old enough to use keys, and it has never failed me. The closest thing to an exception is at night, but even then they don’t leave my pocket. I hang my pants on a hook, and the next day everything goes immediately from yesterday’s pants to today’s.
Sunday morning I was getting ready to leave the house and couldn’t find my car key fob (which also has house key, keys for work, etc.) The last time I had seen them was sometime on Saturday, sitting on top of my hat and gloves on the kitchen table. Hat and gloves were still there, no keys. I looked all over the kitchen, checked my coat pocket, pants from the day before… Nothing. I asked my wife and she confirmed having seen them on the kitchen table on Saturday.
My wife and I had swapped cars last week because of the weather. So I went out to the garage and checked her car (even though I know I brought the keys in when I got home from work Friday, and I had not been in her car at all over the weekend) and there they were sitting on the driver’s seat. Neither one of us has any idea how they got there.
I’m pretty lucky in that years of habit have led to me quickly feeling panicky if my keys, wallet, and phone aren’t in their specific locations in my pockets. It is quite rare for me to lose these. When I do lose things it’s because I was carrying them and got distracted by an unrelated task. I’ll eventually find them on some counter close to said task.
I have actually locked myself IN my laundry room…I know, I know. Who has a lock on an inside laundry room door? Backwards, at that. My contractor hated me by the time we finished the house, so I blame every little thing on him. But, I’ve lost my keys so much it’s kind of a joke in the family. Every one has a set of my keys, just in case.Sometimes I blame it on aliens, they are out to get me too.
I happy day! I got to work and they were sitting there waiting for me. Now I have to parse the chronology because it just doesn’t make any sense. Thanks all for the support! I’m making a few spares tomorrow.
How did you get in your house? Or did you forget to lock the door when you left?
That is weird, but I am glad you found them.
If you have a smart phone, you could look at something like Tile. There are several other brands now too. They are a small bluetooth tracker that you put on things you don’t want to lose, like keys. Some people use them for luggage when travelling, that sort of thing. Backpacks, my kids’ shoes, whatever it is that has a habit of not being where it should be.
I haven’t locked my house in the 14 years I’ve owned it. I couldn’t tell you where the keys are - I’ll have to rekey all the locks if I sell. My car keys are in the cupholder, where they belong.
StG
But in Toon Town, don’t you just squeeze though the keyhole or under the door anyway?
Usually down one of the chimneys and in through a fireplace. 
Toon Town = Music City = Nashville
StG