Won’t you be my neighbor?
For home, a keybox with a push button combination contains a key. Kind of crude, it has digits 0-9 and you can set it so that X specific digits must be pushed in any order to open it. Actually would be hard to guess, you don’t know how many digits we chose or which ones they are.
For work, I keep a spare desk key taped to the back side of a picture frame that’s on the cubicle wall. Not terribly secure but it isn’t like my stuff is worth thousands anyway.
No spare keys here either. But then, we have a house key on our car keys, and we aren’t really is a location conducive to walking anywhere, so it’s unlikely we’ll be outside of the house without a key anyway.
We have a code to the garage just in case.
I keep mine hidden under my mattress. I figure even if a burglar found it there, he’s already in the house anyway.
One place I had a spot on the wall rigged with a micro/switch to activate the door so I could ride up on my motorcycle and lean my shoulder on the wall & the door would go up so I did not have to dismount or carry a door clicker.
Using my shoulder kept the spot from getting dirty from finger prints. I don’t live their anymore but the switch still probably works.
It’s going to be so handy to have this kind of list next time someone whose house I want to enter has not put their key under the mat.
Or anyone out there wanting to do the same… Good job helping get this information together in one place!
I have a magnetic key box on my car that contains a car key (sans transponder, so no stealing the car easily), and within the car, a hidden compartment with house keys. Spare car key with transponder in the house. I carry three separate keyrings – car, home, work – and could lose any of them under most circumstances while being able to still function. Very rare that I’d be at home without my car being there. (Losing work keys was no problem, just go into work the next day, borrow the keys from coworkers, and make copies when I could.) In the old days when I drove GM cars that had separate ignition/lock keys, I stashed a lock key in a lock box, then the ignition key within somewhere I had to dig (magnetic lock box, then trunk or something) so I could get in and eventually drive off, but the average burglar who might be clever enough to get the most easily accessible hidden key wouldn’t be driving away easily.
So…
- yes
- A few years ago; lost my house keyring at school, got home, then had to get the spare from the car. Never got the lost keyring back, so I had to eventually jimmy open a locked filing cabinet, but otherwise I was spared a big headache.
- No, but I have forgotten to remove said house keys from cars when selling them.
Tell me you had artificial vegetation around your garage door so that it looked like you were exiting the bat cave. 
Same here, until the complex changed to push-button combination locks.
I don’t have on hidden. My best friend has a spare key to my apartment door and I can access my place via an inside stairwell from my housemate apartment upstairs.
I rarely lock my doors, i just don’t think about it most of the time and my door is not easily accessible.
I live in an apartment complex and I have a key for the common building doors, one for my apartment, and one for my storage room in the basement. (Well, obviously I have at least two of each.)
Outside of the building, I have a hidden key for the building. Inside the building, I have a hidden key for my storage room. Inside the storage room, I have a hidden key for my apartment. If anybody can figure that shit out, they’re free to take what they want. I have renter insurance that more than covers everything at replacement value.
Some interesting replies. I think the best would be to get a programmable lock.
Out in the country. Could not be seen unless you were with me. I never used it with ANYONE present.
Never talked about it. 
Nothing is secret if more than one person knows it or it is written or recorded ANYPLACE. 
Hummmm, guess you could find where I used to live. Guess it is not a secret anymore. Gosh darn…
I hid the key to our fire safe a couple of years ago when we went on an extended road trip. The locksmith was sympathetic. I still haven’t found it.
I have a hidden key, and use it probably every 2 or 3 months.
For OP and those of you who use garage codes, what if the power goes out or the code entry pad stops working?
They go to Starbucks ™ ???
Spare house and car key are one of the little tea candle lanterns hanging from one of the rhododendrons. You just have to figure out which rhodo, and which lantern. And where the yard is. 
Yes, it has come in handy when I’ve gone for a spontaneous dog walk, and oops, locked myself out.
Same, except the nearest relative with a spare key is in another state. I’ve never locked myself out, though.
There’s a kit you can buy (or make yourself) to hook a garage door remote into your headlight’s bright switch. When you pull into your driveway you flash your brights and your garage door opens.