Where do you keep your spare keys?

London_Town

I'm really trying to get more organised and one issue that has come to light is that I can't decide on the safest and simplest place to keep my spare house and car keys.

I live alone, so have no family to take a key and the only idea I've come up with so far is a locked cabinet in my office at work. It's a 24 hour location, so I could go there to get a key in an emergency.

What do other people do? Where do you keep your spare house and car keys?

Any constructive ideas would be appreciated!

HappyMJ

London_Town wrote: »

I'm really trying to get more organised and one issue that has come to light is that I can't decide on the safest and simplest place to keep my spare house and car keys.

I live alone, so have no family to take a key and the only idea I've come up with so far is a locked cabinet in my office at work. It's a 24 hour location, so I could go there to get a key in an emergency.

What do other people do? Where do you keep your spare house and car keys?

Any constructive ideas would be appreciated!

With the letting agent.

PasturesNew

I've always just been careful/lucky.

You can get those press-button key entry keysafes - punch in a code that you pick and the little door opens and you get your key. They're used for the elderly, for carers to gain entry, so they must be pretty secure.

London_Town

HappyMJ wrote: »

With the letting agent.

I'm relieved to say this isn't an option!

London_Town

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've always just been careful/lucky.

You can get those press-button key entry keysafes - punch in a code that you pick and the little door opens and you get your key. They're used for the elderly, for carers to gain entry, so they must be pretty secure.

I've always enjoyed reading your posts over the years PN, so nice to see you comment on my thread.

Yes, I've been careful/lucky too so far, but I've had far too many stressful "tear the house apart" moments searching for a spare key over the years.

I know the things you mean that go on the wall. I suppose it's a secure version of a key under the plant pot. I'd be reluctant to have something like that on the outside of the house in case it suggested I was an easy target to break in. Sorry, security concerns when you live alone can really make you disappear up your own back side!

marlot

With my neighbour

GwylimT

We have a guard house on site that is manned 24 hours, they have to have a cooy of our front door key, so like many residents i've put my spare car key on the spare door key.

Biggles

PasturesNew wrote: »

You can get those press-button key entry keysafes - punch in a code that you pick and the little door opens and you get your key. They're used for the elderly, for carers to gain entry, so they must be pretty secure.

There may be some more secure ones out these days but, in my experience, most of them are very easy to crack in a few minutes. They should only be used where access is regularly needed by non-keyholders.

VoucherMan

One on the key rack, one in a drawer somewhere (I can never remember which one though, as I keep moving them:o).

Money_maker

London_Town wrote: »

I'd be reluctant to have something like that on the outside of the house in case it suggested I was an easy target to break in. Sorry, security concerns when you live alone can really make you disappear up your own back side!

You could conceal it somewhere outside the house. Key safes for carers need to be seen but if its just for your own benefit then you could put it somewhere obscure!

DigForVictory

A lass I know stashed her spare keys in a baccy tin wired to a shaggy shrub along the pavement side of the garden. Taped to protect it again dog wee, when she finally couldn't take any more of the abusive relationship, she still had house & car keys.

Me, I have a tentative relationship with whatever's nesting in a birdbox I made. I disturb them as little as possible, they get weatherproof accomodation.

I'm very nervous about keysafes - not only do I doubt they're safe, I fear they mark out vulnerable targets. I have a nasty suspicious mind though.

Currently I have a spare doorkey fastened to the uniform of each schoolchild, but that's not going to work for much longer.