@shahnm@spiciernoodles The poll’s implication is traditional metal keys, given today’s product. But, generally, yes, I would agree with you; a fob is a key.
@shahnm Yes, if it’s a keyfob. Try pressing the silver button on the side. If a key pops out, it’s a keyfob. I don’t ever use my key, but it’s nice to know it’s there in case my fob’s battery dies.
Rarely carry more than one - either the car key (with the house alarm set) or the door key. Either fits in a pocket, no key rings to worry about. How many door locks do some of you folks have, anyway?? (I do have more keys but I don’t carry them around all the time, geez.)
House key (for doorknobs), House key (for deadbolts), mailbox key, car key, safe deposit box… There’s a couple of others that are just on the keyring because it’s easier than wondering where they are, and those are to a couple of padlocks.
I’m just glad that modern cars use the same key for the trunk as they do for the doorlocks and the ignition. Yes, each door has two keys, one for the doorknob, and a second, different one for the deadbolt.
I like keys. I trust them far more than anything electronic.
Parents used to have 15+ keys on a key chain, until it was split to three different key chains. We still end up carrying 4 or 5 extra keys that never get used, but no one wants to be responsible for removing them.
Just off the top of my head…
Key + fob for vehicle 1 (my daily driver)
Key + fob for vehicle 2 (wife’s daily driver / “the good one”)
Key for front door
Key for garage door
Mailbox key
3 keys for clients offices where I frequently work after-hours
2 keys for my day job offices
2 keys for the church
I think there are more, and all but one of those (one of the ones for the church) have been used within the last week.
Lol, I need 3 keys just to get in my house. The gate, the security screen and the door. I have keys to the bedroom door, thecstairwell door, the other three outside doors, my car, and my best friend’s truck. Every door in my house has a lock on it.
@Spheyr Why have three different keys for one point of entry? Are they different and varied high security locks or something, or are they literally Schlage/Kwikset home locks?
my partner and i share a keyring, so between keys for his parents, my parents, his office, my housekeeping clients, our car, and our apartment…yeah, several but i guess you could also say that one of us is just as often carrying no keys at all.
The people we bought our house from had matching locks on two doors plus the shop but matching only in looks. There was a deadbolt, knob, and a storm door lock on all three doors. 9 freaking keys for the house alone. We removed the deadbolt and put in an electronic lock so we don’t lock the knob. No one uses the front door so it stays locked all the time. the electronic deadbolt has a key but I never carry it. Then there’s the car, the truck, the post office box, my parents house, the church, my office, my classroom, the office building, a work storage closet, our testing center, my son’s house…I think that’s it. I use three keys all the time but if I didn’t have one, I would end up needing it.
@ljbluejay Sigh! I used to have a nice little kind of mini-Swiss Army Knife with a nail clipper on my key chain, but it was on there when we flew to the Caribbean, and now the TSA has it. I used to use it ALL the time.
6 keys for work. 5 different doors and my drawer. Second job has 4 keys for different doors. Other part of my main job has 2 keys, 1 door and 1 cabinet. Personal ring has 2 vehicle and 1 door key. I carry the sets I need based in what has to be done for the day. In the house I have the garage key, keys to my sister’s house, keys to the old house, keys for the other work place that I should return and keys to the extra vehicles.
Key ring is 2, but there is a box in a drawer with 1 spare house, the keys to my parents’ (500 miles away) and the snowblower. Then the box has about 40 other keys collected over 50 years of moves and stuff (all different sizes). I’m not artistic, but I keep thinking someday I’ll use them for a project, like a housewarming gift for one of my sons.
Is it wrong that I carry a massive amount of keys EVERY DAY, no matter what? In all honesty, I’m not even sure what every key does on this set…Pretty sure there’s a gas cap key from my '74 Duster that I had in high school…and I graduated in 1986!!
@raccoon81 Please feel free to do so! I’d really love to get rid of some of them, but I just know that as soon as I do, I’m going to find a lock that needs one of the keys. 2 people searching out said lock, would certainly ease my burden.
@cfg83 I forgot to mention the fact that I have a separate set of keys that have my keys for car, home & shed, as well as 2 more mystery keys that I truly have no clue what they are for. Again, I’ve convinced myself that as soon as I get rid of them, I will find the lock that they fit. I just don’t carry these on my person because of the size of the car key.
@tohar1 I think we were separated at birth.
You are wise to feel that the keys you lose will uncover lost locks. I think you need ANOTHER key fob for those keys, and a safe place to keep them.
I actually have two car keys when I am out and about. I keep one key on my person at all times. The other is the one that goes into the ignition. I used to have a job doing late hours on campus. I was worried I would lock myself out of my car, so I always had a spare key “with me” in case I left the other set in the ignition.
Five keys plus two fobs on my work keyring, and two keys and a car fob on my home keyring. One day we’ll rekey the storm door at home so I’ll only need one key on that keyring. Two day I’ll work at fewer places and need less on that keyring.
My keysmart has 7 keys (outer door deadbolt, inner door deadbolt and knob, storeroom outer door, storeroom inner door, deadbolt and knob keys to girlfriend’s house) and the thing to attach a clip to connect to my car key ring.
My car key ring has my 2004 Ford Taurus car key and alarm remote, two gun trigger lock keys, and keys for the two “The Club” steering wheel locks that live in the car instead of a bat or crowbar (I never lock the steering wheel).
My work key ring is on a belt loop clip and has about eight keys on it (master key for department doors including my office, a Yale 47 key (opens most electric service panels in NYC buildings), the staff mens room key from the building I used to work in, the elevator key to the computer labs I used to run and 4-5 desk and file cabinet keys I haven’t used in years. In recent years I’ve only used the office master and the Yale 47 keys.
So… I could reduce all of this to a single keysmart with seven keys and the clip for the car key and alarm remote, but then I’d have to remember to bring the storeroom and gun keys with me when I need them, so meh.
I could actually get by without any keys. The car can be opened and started via phone app. Garage door opener uses car keypad. Front door is electronic keypad or phone app. Home alarm uses same phone app as door. I still carry two fobs and one key in case I lose the phone.
Secondary key ring that I keep because I don’t know what they go to
6 assorted house keys in various sizes
4 pad lock sized keys
2 slightly bigger pad lock keys
Is a fob a key?
@shahnm i guess it would be considered an electronic one right?
@shahnm @spiciernoodles The poll’s implication is traditional metal keys, given today’s product. But, generally, yes, I would agree with you; a fob is a key.
@shahnm Yes, if it’s a keyfob. Try pressing the silver button on the side. If a key pops out, it’s a keyfob. I don’t ever use my key, but it’s nice to know it’s there in case my fob’s battery dies.
@shahnm Technically no, since a fob is traditionally a chain attached to a key (or a watch).
My house is so crooked in the winter that I can’t lock the back door… so zero. Yay?
My folding car key, and 1 house key - so tell me why I need what you are selling again.
@mfladd Obviously this one isn’t for you, cupcake.
@Spheyr
If I carry keys around I lose them, so I don’t.
Some people need multiple keys for daily use. I’ve got the front door and back door at my parents on this along with my apt key and my mailbox key.
Rarely carry more than one - either the car key (with the house alarm set) or the door key. Either fits in a pocket, no key rings to worry about. How many door locks do some of you folks have, anyway?? (I do have more keys but I don’t carry them around all the time, geez.)
@cbl_wv My front door has three different locks if they’re all locked, four on the back. Side door has two.
@cbl_wv thankfully only two house keys even though we unlock four locks over three doors to get in, but that’s an apartment for you sometimes.
House key (for doorknobs), House key (for deadbolts), mailbox key, car key, safe deposit box… There’s a couple of others that are just on the keyring because it’s easier than wondering where they are, and those are to a couple of padlocks.
I’m just glad that modern cars use the same key for the trunk as they do for the doorlocks and the ignition. Yes, each door has two keys, one for the doorknob, and a second, different one for the deadbolt.
I like keys. I trust them far more than anything electronic.
Parents used to have 15+ keys on a key chain, until it was split to three different key chains. We still end up carrying 4 or 5 extra keys that never get used, but no one wants to be responsible for removing them.
Just off the top of my head…
Key + fob for vehicle 1 (my daily driver)
Key + fob for vehicle 2 (wife’s daily driver / “the good one”)
Key for front door
Key for garage door
Mailbox key
3 keys for clients offices where I frequently work after-hours
2 keys for my day job offices
2 keys for the church
I think there are more, and all but one of those (one of the ones for the church) have been used within the last week.
Lol, I need 3 keys just to get in my house. The gate, the security screen and the door. I have keys to the bedroom door, thecstairwell door, the other three outside doors, my car, and my best friend’s truck. Every door in my house has a lock on it.
12 every day, 16 on the weekends when I have another set of work keys on me that don’t leave the site.
@Spheyr Why have three different keys for one point of entry? Are they different and varied high security locks or something, or are they literally Schlage/Kwikset home locks?
my partner and i share a keyring, so between keys for his parents, my parents, his office, my housekeeping clients, our car, and our apartment…yeah, several
but i guess you could also say that one of us is just as often carrying no keys at all.
The people we bought our house from had matching locks on two doors plus the shop but matching only in looks. There was a deadbolt, knob, and a storm door lock on all three doors. 9 freaking keys for the house alone. We removed the deadbolt and put in an electronic lock so we don’t lock the knob. No one uses the front door so it stays locked all the time. the electronic deadbolt has a key but I never carry it. Then there’s the car, the truck, the post office box, my parents house, the church, my office, my classroom, the office building, a work storage closet, our testing center, my son’s house…I think that’s it. I use three keys all the time but if I didn’t have one, I would end up needing it.
None.
Cripes, people. Imma give you one word that will blow your mind, change your life and set you free: Rekeying
/giphy you’re welcome
@ruouttaurmind The locksmith just laughed when I asked to get my door rekeyed to match my car.
6 keys and a nail clipper.
@ljbluejay Sigh! I used to have a nice little kind of mini-Swiss Army Knife with a nail clipper on my key chain, but it was on there when we flew to the Caribbean, and now the TSA has it. I used to use it ALL the time.
6 keys for work. 5 different doors and my drawer. Second job has 4 keys for different doors. Other part of my main job has 2 keys, 1 door and 1 cabinet. Personal ring has 2 vehicle and 1 door key. I carry the sets I need based in what has to be done for the day. In the house I have the garage key, keys to my sister’s house, keys to the old house, keys for the other work place that I should return and keys to the extra vehicles.
I have too many keys.
Truck key… that is it. No work, No house, No whatever else y’all carry.
I hate carrying extra stuff with me, cell phone with cards on back, chapstick (won’t give that up) and truck key. Done.
Key ring is 2, but there is a box in a drawer with 1 spare house, the keys to my parents’ (500 miles away) and the snowblower. Then the box has about 40 other keys collected over 50 years of moves and stuff (all different sizes). I’m not artistic, but I keep thinking someday I’ll use them for a project, like a housewarming gift for one of my sons.
@mollama This… this would be cool
Is it wrong that I carry a massive amount of keys EVERY DAY, no matter what? In all honesty, I’m not even sure what every key does on this set…Pretty sure there’s a gas cap key from my '74 Duster that I had in high school…and I graduated in 1986!!
@tohar1 Hah… you posted pics of your key online, now I can go make a copy and not know what they can do either!
@raccoon81 Please feel free to do so! I’d really love to get rid of some of them, but I just know that as soon as I do, I’m going to find a lock that needs one of the keys. 2 people searching out said lock, would certainly ease my burden.
@tohar1 Keys make the man. I have 10 right now, not counting the car keys, which have their own SNAP ON micro-carabiners.
@cfg83 I forgot to mention the fact that I have a separate set of keys that have my keys for car, home & shed, as well as 2 more mystery keys that I truly have no clue what they are for. Again, I’ve convinced myself that as soon as I get rid of them, I will find the lock that they fit. I just don’t carry these on my person because of the size of the car key.
@tohar1 I think we were separated at birth.
You are wise to feel that the keys you lose will uncover lost locks. I think you need ANOTHER key fob for those keys, and a safe place to keep them.
I actually have two car keys when I am out and about. I keep one key on my person at all times. The other is the one that goes into the ignition. I used to have a job doing late hours on campus. I was worried I would lock myself out of my car, so I always had a spare key “with me” in case I left the other set in the ignition.
@tohar1 But wait, there’s more! Here is my @raccoon81 - proof image :
The blue thing is not a key.
Edit: Well I guess there is a hidden key in my fob for my car to open the car door, so 1.
Edit 2: I guess I could take it out since I could always unlock my car with my phone. So I could be at 0 keys.
Used to be four but we sold our business in October so now it’s three. And I’m not exactly sure what one of them is for.
When I owned my most recent house, I only carried the car key/fob combo. It was glorious.
@JackRIP Thank you for the bud.
@JackRIP +3 Points for the skull!!
@JackRIP @tohar1 as a representative of the Guild of Skull Persons, I approve this message.
Five keys plus two fobs on my work keyring, and two keys and a car fob on my home keyring. One day we’ll rekey the storm door at home so I’ll only need one key on that keyring. Two day I’ll work at fewer places and need less on that keyring.
One car key. Not even a fob. Yes, I actually use the key to open the door. Electronic keypad on house, so kids don’t have to carry key either.
Car key, house key.
My keysmart has 7 keys (outer door deadbolt, inner door deadbolt and knob, storeroom outer door, storeroom inner door, deadbolt and knob keys to girlfriend’s house) and the thing to attach a clip to connect to my car key ring.
My car key ring has my 2004 Ford Taurus car key and alarm remote, two gun trigger lock keys, and keys for the two “The Club” steering wheel locks that live in the car instead of a bat or crowbar (I never lock the steering wheel).
My work key ring is on a belt loop clip and has about eight keys on it (master key for department doors including my office, a Yale 47 key (opens most electric service panels in NYC buildings), the staff mens room key from the building I used to work in, the elevator key to the computer labs I used to run and 4-5 desk and file cabinet keys I haven’t used in years. In recent years I’ve only used the office master and the Yale 47 keys.
So… I could reduce all of this to a single keysmart with seven keys and the clip for the car key and alarm remote, but then I’d have to remember to bring the storeroom and gun keys with me when I need them, so meh.
I could actually get by without any keys. The car can be opened and started via phone app. Garage door opener uses car keypad. Front door is electronic keypad or phone app. Home alarm uses same phone app as door. I still carry two fobs and one key in case I lose the phone.
Main key ring
Secondary key ring that I keep because I don’t know what they go to
6 assorted house keys in various sizes
4 pad lock sized keys
2 slightly bigger pad lock keys