Keeping details with keys

hullight

Hi

I currently have a lot of keys (house, shed, garage, bike, two mopeds, work keys) and am really scared in case I lose them. I have spares of most of them (or my dad does) but still, what can I do to make it easier to get them back if I lose them?

Obviously attaching silly details like an address or home phone number is a big mistake, but what about mobile numbers or email addresses - if they are picked up, would these let an honest person get in touch but stop a lowlife finding my address?

LilMissEmmylou

i dont know the site but u can get a tag to put on your keys with a number to call and an address to post them to of a company. They then return them to you. Im sure sainsburys used to do something similar too?

Iamthesmartestmanalive

Most insurers offer tags with freepost addresses for lost keys

Debt_Free_Chick

hullight wrote: »

Hi

I currently have a lot of keys (house, shed, garage, bike, two mopeds, work keys) and am really scared in case I lose them. I have spares of most of them (or my dad does) but still, what can I do to make it easier to get them back if I lose them?

To be honest, does it matter if you don't get them back? Provided you have at least one spare of every key, then wouldn't you just get new keys cut?

Even an honest person would have to go to the trouble - and expense - of returning keys if they found them and too many wouldn't bother.

If the keys have absolutely no identifying material on them, then they're no use to a dishonest person/potential thief which seems the safest bet, IMHO.

geordie_joe

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

If the keys have absolutely no identifying material on them, then they're no use to a dishonest person/potential thief which seems the safest bet, IMHO.

What about if the thief/dishonest person knows you, and has the keys because they saw you leave them on a pub table.

Or what if you did as my neighbour once did and drop them right outside her front door?

missile

If insured with Norwich Union, they replace all your locks for free if you loose the keys.

Babysittah

Tag em dude, the easiest way!!!:cool:

geordie_joe

Babysittah wrote: »

Tag em dude, the easiest way!!!:cool:

Not allowed to have links in sigs.

Debt_Free_Chick

geordie_joe wrote: »

What about if the thief/dishonest person knows you, and has the keys because they saw you leave them on a pub table.

Or what if you did as my neighbour once did and drop them right outside her front door?

Very fair points I hadn't thought about .... but fairly low risk .... surely

Provided I had spare keys, I'd simply change the locks (barrels) anyway ... but perhaps not the most MSE solution. But then .... at age 47, I've never had the misfortune to lose my keys ....

Stephen_Leak

I have one of those pet ID tubes, with just my mobile telephone number (PAYG) in it, on my keyring. I don't think that this is enough info' to enable anyone - within reason - to find out which property or car they belong to.

It works: I left my keys in a Post Office and they rang me before I realised they were missing.

PS. Obviously, dropping them outside the door or car, or even leaving them in the lock, are worst case scenarios: the location of the keys "gives the game away", regardless of whether they were ID tagged or not.

geordie_joe

Or what if you did as my neighbour once did and drop them right outside her front door?

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

Very fair points I hadn't thought about .... but fairly low risk .... surely

I don't know, if you think about that could be the most likely time you would lose them. You lock the front door, go to put the keys in your pocket/bag and miss, as my neighbour did.

I you don't have a lot of keys on the ring, and it falls onto something soft like a flower bed/lawn you might not hear them fall.