I have keys for 4 vehicles if you count the tractor. They hang on hooks inside one of the kitchen cabinets. I just grab whichever one I need. They all have the same keys except for the vehicle key. House key, PO Box key etc.
keys are only allowed to be in one of three places: my pocket, in the car’s ignition, or sitting on top of a shelf near the door.
We also keep spare keys to all of the vehicles on a different shelf, in case some emergency might arise.
The house is never locked and I’m not sure if we even own keys to the one lock in the front door. We have a bunch of big dogs and own nothing of value and anyone who tries to “break in” will regret it.
As I said, we come in thru the garage, and the only keys I have are for the car, the truck, and the basement door. Our front door is dead-bolted and rarely opened. If the electricity goes out and we can’t get into the garage, we can come in thru the basement and not have to break any windows.
We have a bowl. But after the spare change, my wallet, my pocketknife, and my sunglasses, sometimes there’s no room for my keys.
I guess we’re gonna need a bigger bowl.
I have this nifty little thing in my handbags called a key keeper. It’s a thin leather tether that is permanently attached to the inside of the handbag, with a lobster claw clasp on the end to clamp onto your key ring. Even if the keys get buried in the handbag, I can still pull out the strap and quickly find them. I used to lose my keys constantly, but since I started using the key keepers, I haven’t lost them once.
I walk around with my keys clipped to a carabiner on my belt, one ring for work keys and another for personal keys. At home, they stay clipped to my belt. At work, my personal keys go into a desk drawer.
Same here.
Ditto.
Spare car keys go in a bowl in the formal dining room.
I used to have a big ring of keys full of keys for old houses and old desks. I lost it one day in Seattle. It turns out I’ve never missed any of them. I used to keep a Leatherman tool on it, but I took it off and left it home since I had flown there, and I still have the tool which I would have minded losing.
Our front door must be locked from outside so I don’t have a problem locking myself out. My Prius won’t lock if they key is still in the car so I don’t have a problem there either.
All the keys in current use are on a clip that gets clipped to my belt loop & then tucked into my right front pants pocket when not inserted into a switch. When the car, truck, tractor, boat, or airplane keys are in use the entire set hangs from the switch.
When I go to bed, the pants are hung from a rack attached to the inside of my bedroom door. In the morning, I switch the key-ring to my new pants as needed.
I do have one key that gets almost no use. It is the back door key. We rarely lock the house doors. As some others have posted, there is little in the house that is worth the risk of trying to steal it. It also helps that someone is usually home, as is at least one of our big dogs. I live at the end of a long driveway, at the end of a dead end road, way out in the sticks. This also helps.
I also have one small key ring that has spare keys to my wife’s car in my watch pocket, just in case.
Keys that are not currently in use are hung on a board that has finishing nails pounded about 1/2 way in at an angle. This board is nailed onto my barn wall hidden behind some bales of hay.
Any rigs in the shop or barn have the keys hanging in the ignition. I may need to move them fairly often, or if the building catches fire, we can drive the mobile ones out fairly fast. My uncle had an experience with a shop fire one time. We lost a lot of rigs because the keys were in the desk drawer, in the burning office.
When I’m out keys are in my pants pocket always. When I’m home they live in the small drawer of a stand by the front door alongside my work badge and wristwatch. I’ve never lost my keys.
In the bathroom sink. I rarely use it, and they are easy to find in the morning.
My keys are one of these
and it gets put on the little table in the entryway between the garage and the kitchen. Soimetimes it gets hidden on the table under something I can’t forget to take to work the next day.
This.
I would never have guessed that so many people keep their keys in their pants pockets all the time, even when not being worn. When my pants come off, they go right into the laundry basket - I’ve had to dig them out looking for that $20 I know I had, but I’m pretty sure I’d notice if one pocket was full of keys.
I’ve thought about leaving the car keys in the car, but I fear it would become a habit, and I’d end up leaving the keys when I shouldn’t - like in a parking lot. That would be bad.
My keys are always in one of four places -
[ul][li]In my front left pants pocket[/li][li]On the dresser next to my ID badge and wallet[/li][li]In the ignition[/li][li]Hopelessly lost.[/ul][/li]Unfortunately, even places like “a different pocket” count as being part of the last option sometimes.
Regards,
Shodan
Pocket of whatever pants I’m wearing.
We bought a cute little faux-antique “key cupboard” that I hung on the wall right inside the front door. The keys live on the little hooks inside the cabinet and have solved our “why in the Hell are your keys in the fridge’s vegetable drawer?” type of questions.
It also has little shelfies inside where the wallets and phones live, so no more “why in the Hell is my wallet in the dog food bin?” inquiries.
Speaking of which: my Jeep Grand Cherokee has a recall for keys suddenly falling out of the ignition (which is very charming when one is booking down I-95 and the truck turns off and the keys have fallen under the seat).
I haven’t had it fixed yet, but use just a single key so there’s not the weight of other keys to pull it out of the ignition.
So, not being quite used to not carrying a key ring, I left the key in my ignition, doors unlocked and parked on the street for a WEEK. I guess our local car thieves weren’t on the ball that week.
The front door in my apartment is in the kitchen, and immediately next to the door to the living room. The living room is at a higher level than the kitchen, so the doorway between them goes up a step. The apartment is small enough that this is the most convenient place to sit and take my shoes off, so I have a tray next to the living-room door where I put my bag coming in; wallet, keys, and anything else out of my pockets get dumped onto the tray next to the bag.
Probably somewhere in my apartment, together with other miscellaneous unused stuff, unless they’ve got thrown away years ago. I never lock my door. If you happen to visit me when I’m not at home, feel free to eat from my fridge, watch my TV or borrow my books and tools (you can make a note on the whiteboard on my door). Also, you can feed my cats and let them in/out.
No need to look for valuables; haven’t got any. So, if you’re a burglar, try the next house. 