One one key ring:
House doorknob key
House deadbolt key
Key to my mom’s house
Key to my mom’s Toyota
On a second:
Key to MY Toyota (yes, it’s confusing)
Key to the Toyota’s Club
On a third:
Jeep door key
Jeep ignition key
Jeep Club key
Jeep gas cap key
I have all these linked together with a big clip that has a “Local Music” bottle opener on it. As you can tell, I’m part of the “if it’s too big to fit in my pocket, I can’t lose it” club, but I still managed to lose the whole damn thing the other day. I had to call my husband to bring me a key to the car so that I could get the kids to school. I found it later under a bookcase. Maybe if you get the keyrings big and complicated enough, they learn to move by themselves?
These are held together – and adorned – by four keychains: My very cool Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 1999 Tour keychain, a li’l flashlight thingy that lights up when you squeeze it (squeezing that thing is quite a stress reliever – just a tip), a red flashlight/LCD sorta thingy, and a Sears Craftsman 4-Way Pocket Screwdriver.
1 - house key
1 - car key
1 - mailbox key
1 - PO Box key
1 - key to the padlock that secured the lid of the enclosure that my 70+ lb., 15 ft. Burmese Python was housed in until she died back in January.
5 keys.
Also
1 - bottle opener
1 - spark plug gap tool
1 - clubmoto photography lab membership
1 - King Soopers (Kroeger) discount card
1 - heavy bronze smiling sun keyring ornament
1 - tiny screwdriver for glasses frames
1 car key
1 deadbolt key for my house
1 doorknob key for my house
1 deadbolt key for parents’ house
1 padlock key for back gate of parents’ house
1 work entry key
1 work security cabinet key
2 work file cabinet keys
1 work general storage key
10 total.
I use one of those three-part keychains REI carries, car key on one section; house keys one section; work keys last section. Handy if I want to start my car to warm it up but have to go back in the house to lock up or whatever.
Three keys:
One for the front door of our apartment building
One for the flat itself
And a key to my parents’ old house (the one I grew up in – they’ve since moved), for sentimental purposes. Hey, it’s been on my key chain since I was a kid!
Car key with remote.
House key.
Key to my workplace.
Key to my Mom’s house.
Key to my grandparents’ house.
Key to my boyfriend’s old apartment (he’s moved; guess I can get rid of that one)
Harris Teeter frequent shopper card, all chewed up by my dog.
I used to carry my keys on an ID holder, and before that I had a police whistle. Since I got the car remote, though, my set of keys is already too big and bulky and I don’t have anything interesting on my keyring anymore.
Car Key
Car Immobiliser switcher off’er type bodgy thing(!)
Porch Key
Front Door Key
Front Door Key to my dads house
‘Life’s a bitch and then you die’ Keyring
‘Reality is the leading cause of stress’ Keyring
Budweiser Keyring
Boomerang Keyring my mate bought me from Australia
I’ve got some grade A crap on my keychain. First the keys:
1 key to my apartment
1 key to my car
3 keys to my parents’ house: 1 for the front door, 1 for the back door, 1 for the garage door (all unnecessary now since they’ve got an automatic garage-door opener)
2 keys to my mother’s car (we used to share it, I forgot to give the keys back)
1 key to my locker at work
key rings and other stuff:
a belt loop clip
a swiss army knife
a nail clipper
a bottle opener
an Exxon tiger’s head keyring
each set of keys is on its own ring, for easier removal
I have my husbands key ring with me today because his is much more impressive.
The fuel cap key (we don’t have that cap anymore)
the trunk/door car key for our Lumina
the ingition key to our Lumina
the door/trunck key for his mothers Velarie
the igition key for his mom’s car
the door/trunk key or his dad’s surburban
the ignition of his dad’s car
the door/trunk key to our junked Lumina
the door/trunk key to my Grand Am
the door key to his mom’s house
the back door key to his mom’s house
Car key
House key
Club key
beaded lizard maded by my daughter
Mali national flag key ring
AIDS awareness key ring: SIDA pensez-y!
Blockbuster gold card
GNC gold card
I’ve been trying to limit what’s on the key ring down to the bare essential keys, but I’m having a bit of trouble with the extra key rings…
I was a locksmith in a previous life, and ten years ago I had one key that opened everything in my life. That key opened:
my house
my office
two clients offices
my moms house
my dads house
a chain lock that I used for my bicycle
my motorcycle
(that last one took some work; this was a schlage key and it took some doing to retrofit the motorcyle lock to work with it.
Nowadays, I have to carry several keys, including:
my house (this is the same single key from above; and it still opens many of the places above, but now I’m in a different city)
my office
my car
my wifes car
one of those mini Leatherman swiss army knife-like things
a SmartCard in a key
(that last one is kindof cool. It plugs into a USB port on a computer and contains my private key for computer authentication. It’s made by Alladin.)
Swiss army knife
ND brass key chain
MARSH Fresh Ideas card
Kroger Plus card
Martin’s Advantage card
car key
trunk key
my house key
dad’s house key
brother’s house key
other brother’s house key
mom’s house key
4 yr. old dorm key
mystery key
3 Keys to my house. Each door to my house takes a different key. I didn’t do it and I have been too lazy to get it fixed.
1 key to my parent’s house
1 key to the office
1 key the garage/shop
1 key to my car
1 key that I don’t know what it does and I am scared to throw away.
That makes a total of 8 keys. I also have a Food Lion MVP card, a Harris Teeter VIC card, a Blockbuster Video card, my father’s old dog tag and a metal clip so that I can attach my keys to things in a hurry. I use to lock my keys in my truck all the time. Now I clip them to my belt loop or my purse strap when I am loading groceries so I don’t lay them down anywhere.
Main:
ign/door to my niece’s pickup (my old truck[just in case])
PO Box
front screen door
Abus padlock
parent’s house
Master padlock
sliding deck door
garage door
outside back door
key to main floor of house from back stairs
front door
inlaw’s house
attached ring with remote and ign/door for our van
Sub:
remote and ign/door for my Mustang
Work:
building entrance
storeroom
passive electronic for operations office front door
And they’re all for something i use and/or can find!
Four house keys, including two for interior doors that are never locked.
[key paranoia story]
My housemates and I have a fear of getting locked in what we refer to as ‘the cell.’ Our apartment features a small vestibule formed by the door to the apartment, which locks behind you when you shut it, and an outer iron door that you need to unlock with a key from both the outside and the inside. So if you go into the cell and shut the inner door and then realize your keys are in the house, you may have a long, cold wait ahead of you until someone comes home.
[/key paranoia story]
in the order they appear on my nicely ordered key chain:
room key
physics lounge key
Katie’s mailbox key (while she’s in England)
the Kvasir mailbox key
my mailbox key
and I’m working on acquiring a key for the office Dr. Borgardt didn’t mean to give Whitney and I . . . heehee . . . he underestimated the power of women. Silly man.