All about keys | Pad Patter 6.14

I need something big for my keys otherwise they get lost in my purse (in which I carry everything but the kitchen sink). On my house key is a lanyard which has the advantage that I always see it peeking out from somewhere in the bag. On my car key is a gigantic toy polar bear. Well, gigantic for a key chain anyway, it's about 12 cm high. No way I can overlook that one.

 

@bellbird um, what? LOL! No, we don't have keys for our windows. They lock but from the inside--no key. As for a screen door: we don't have one (although I'd love one and have asked DH to measure so we can buy one). Our sliding glass door to the back doesn't have a key lock, either, which is fine cuz we have added security to that door so a key wouldn't really be useful.

 

Crack me up! I have friends who tease me cuz we have a doorbell that has a security camera and some other security features that make my friends wonder if I'm crazy (like, I want security cameras that don't record only via wifi cuz what if your power goes out?...which also lead to a discussion about battery backup options, but I digress), so it doesn't make me think "Fort Knox" when I hear you say "locks on windows." It makes me think "smart"!
And this isn't exactly our lock, but this is very similar to what we had back in our old house:

No key required.

 

My car key has a single ring on it with the mailbox key and that's it...I'm boring like that.

 

I have a Purdue (my alma mater) keychain + a couple store cards + my car fob, my house key, & my parents' house key. I carry my work keys separately and have them tucked in a different compartment in my purse so I never lose them & always know exactly where they are without having to dig around.

 

I think you've got a point re lock vs latch. I just Googled what most people have here and they're called "sash locks," so I guess not every "lock" needs a key? Who knew? I just know I'd lose my darn mind if I needed to keep track of window keys lol!

And as for that maze security thingy: that's so fun! Not exactly practical, but definitely fun lol!

 

You two @Tree City and @bellbird are cracking me up with your back and forth ... Sara I'm glad you did all the answering bc I was lost there for awhile.

The only way we get into our house 99.9% of the time is through the garage door openers that are in our cars. My car is keyless - just need to have the key fob on me (in pocket or purse or attached to my wristlet) and I can touch the button on the car door and get in bc I have the "key" with me. We lock our house doors from the inside and go out the garage ... so unless there is a power outage, we don't need keys to get in .... and Sara explained how the windows lock with that sash/latch thing. No keys for those ever.

 

I keep all those key cards on a key ring in my purse - they tear off my regular key ring too easily. I really love the stores that use a phone number to look up your loyalty card rather having to have a card.

On my plain ring, I have the car fob, the car key, the front door key, the garage door key, mom's house key, and the church key. I have had led enough events at church that they gave me a key. My front door key is orange so it is easy to find. I get to park in the garage so I use the garage opener and most of the time the door in garage to the house is unlocked. So my keys fit in my pocket.

 

I have a two sided key ring with car keys on each side; this is so that when I take my car in, I can easily separate the appropriate car key from the rest of them. (My key ring is this one without the middle third ring.) My house key is on another separate ring because both cars I drive have "remote start" and don't need to have my key in hand to start, but sometime recently I couldn't go through the garage and needed my key to get into the house. All of them sit in the bottom of my purse, underneath my wallet. (And that is the entire contents of that section of my purse.)

 

I have MIC-KEYs

 

My key ring is an Aigner key ring with car key & house key. I don't like having all the weight of things on my key as well as my purse.