a) want to, not have to.
b) a kikoi is not pants, or trousers, or any kind of breeches
I keep a couple of masks in the car (under the visors) or hanging on the gear shifter.
Cool bowl!
We have a small ceramic tray (5" x 7") with a dachshund pictured on it that’s on the kitchen counter right around the corner from the front door…like the kitchen door is only about 8 inches from the front door, so when I remove the keys from the lock in the front door I can reach the tray without taking a step. Convenient, and I never misplace my keys anymore.
In the winter my keys are in my jacket pocket hanging in the front hall. If they’re not there (because they were in my pants or something when I went upstairs), or in the summer they’re on my nightstand by my bed.
I have keyless start, so my keys live in a zippered pocket in my purse. I just grab my purse and go.
In the big city, house keys on a hook by the door, no car key to worry about.
In suburbia, just a car key, on a hook by the door from the garage which we always use to enter the house. Front and back doors are locked but we have a hidden key to get in thru the patio doors if we are locked out.
Lake cabin, car and house keys on a hook inside front door. Doors aren’t locked when we are there.
If I’m carrying keys or fobs outside the house, left front pocket.
Huh, didn’t know you were into electronic dance music so much that you have EDC stuff at home. 
I tell myself that too.
Because I change clothes when I come home and the clothes I was wearing go into the laundry hamper. Thus, keys go on hooks. Plus, I have no reason to have keys in my pocket when I’m home, so why would I want to?
I have to say I’m a little surprised at the number of people that wear the same clothes day after day. I don’t even wear the same clothes when they are at home stuff like shorts, sleeveless tees or pajama bottoms. Maybe I’m the weirdo.
About the jeans thing. It’s not that Clarkson wore jeans, it’s that he wore what we call “mom jeans” over here. Basically, jeans that are belted or worn above the belly button. Seinfeld and the guy that played MacGyver got a lot of crap at the time for wearing them.
Keys, wallet and phone belong in a caddy on a bureau in the living room. I’m not scrupulous but they are usually there together as a set.
I also have a Chipolo tag on the keys and wallet.
So I can find the keys or wallet from my phone or iPad, and my phone and iPad from my keys or wallet. The tag includes a proximity alert if my keys or wallet or phone get separated.
And I don’t use them often but the mere presence of tags seem to work as very good memory joggers.
My car starts with an attack by Blue Meanies. But if there are none in the neighborhood, I can also start it with a Vulcan mind meld. I don’t need no steenkin kar keys.
My keys, along with everything else from my pockets, rests on the dresser facing the foot of my bed. As with many others in this thread, I tend to wear different pants every day, and find that I manage to leave the house with everything I’m going to need that day in my pockets if I sort it out the night before, as opposed to in the fuzzy-headed just-awake morning.
Everything was just piled on the dresser until I got my current car. It has a fob that allows me to open the locked door and start the car without ever taking it out of my pocket. My bedroom is directly over my garage. About a week after purchasing the car, I was sitting in the living room watching television (so work pants had been emptied onto the dresser) and a thought occurred to me. I walked downstairs, into my garage, grasped the door handle of my (locked) car and opened it. Now, my car keys rest in a metal mesh box on my dresser each evening and other items are also in metal mesh baskets (it was a set).
We have a key hook thing in side our pantry, which is next to the door. All keys are always hung up there when we come home. It’s just a habit.
In my pocket, where they are 90% of the time. The other 10% they’re either on my desk or on the kitchen table.
Keys are always in my pocket. Like @pulykamell, my phone is in my pocket 90% of the time, and on desk 10%.
Ever since being in San Francisco for the 1989 earthquake, I always keep my keys in my pocket when I’m awake. If at work and a fire drill occurs, sometimes you have to stay outside for some time. Once they didn’t let us back in for hours. I was able to drive home (nearby) and then return later because I had my keys.
Wallet is also always in my pocket.
My wife says it helps to be a guy and have pockets in pants / shorts.
In our case, it’s because the number of cars is less than the number of people. If my husband wants to drive, he doesn’t need to go digging in my purse. OK, he wouldn’t anyway - because he has his own key - but if he needs to borrow the son’s car (really ours), or if the son needs to borrow ours, or the housemate needs to borrow either, there’s ONE place to look.
Plus, yeah: some of the larger car keys can be pretty bulky (like our older CRV: regular key + fob in one unit) and tend to stab you in the leg if you sit down wrong when they’ve been in the pocket.
Wallet: Since I wear my jeans for a few days in a row, the wallet DOES stay in the same place all the time. When it’s time to change the jeans, the wallet immediately goes in the new pair - and as noted, it’s attached to the garment.
Back when I routinely carried a purse, the wallet would always be there. A few years back, when I broke my foot and had trouble with stairs, that purse was like an extension of my body - always on me, with all essentials in it (wallet, meds, chargers etc.). The phone lived in it too.
The phone is the one variable. It goes pretty much everywhere with me - it’s either in my hand, in my pants pocket, or on my desk. If I’m in the dining room / kitchen / family room it might be off my person but will be very nearby.
Semi-related rambling: We have so many tiny gadgets in modern life, that we need to have ways of making them BIGGER so we don’t lose them. Keyrings so the housekey doesn’t get lost. We bought cases / keyring attachments for our new wireless earbuds to make them harder to lose. Carabiners to attach all these to clothing or purse. Etc.
Less of an issue for you since you do have a garage (as do we), but this is actually leveraged by car thieves to steal cars.
So, someone would have to physically get into our garage to leverage this trick. Not impossible, but most thieves do go for the easier pickings. I have not tried opening the locked car door with the keys still inside the house though - will have to attempt that to see if it works.
I used to, until I just stopped ever putting it down.
Mine go into a 16 oz disposable plastic container on the kitchen counter. It’s the milky kind macaroni salad comes in at the deli. Same with my money & card clip. If I’m not home, they stay in my pocket, unless I’m traveling and won’t need keys for a while.
Me too. Our house doors auto-lock as does the shed door, so I always have my keys in my pocket no matter what I’m wearing, so I don’t get locked out of the house even if I’m in the back yard. Phone in left front to avoid being scratched by the keys…
When the Whittier Narrows earthquake hit in 1987, we all left the building as soon as the shaking stopped. Since our building was essentially sitting on the epicenter (the only time I’ve stood on the ground and felt the ripple of the aftershocks under my feet), there was a lot of damage. No one knew what was structural damage, so they didn’t let us back in for hours,and, then, only a few at a time with an escort. The quake struck around 7:45, and I didn’t head home until around 2:00. I never left the building without my purse after that.
I wasn’t that old when I figured out I needed a consistent home for my keys instead of wasting time searching for where I’d put them last time I got home.
Today my actual keys stay in the door pocket in my car in the garage, but the keyless entry fob stays on a table next to the door so I can grab it when I leave.