Neat way to hide a key.

[MossRoad]

This thread jixed my luck.....Just yesterday, I lost or misplaced my house keys that I usually carry with me when working around the place. Usually hey show up............ ....somewhere...........but I spent most of the day outdoors.....and no sign of them yet.

Last year I found some keys in the yard that I lost about 2 years earlier. They were corroded to heck. Just glad the lawnmower didn't fling them into the siding.

 

[garry1p]

10 Day vacation last Aug when I got back I couldn't find the hidden tractor key.

I figured I would never hide it on the tractor and it had to be somewhere close by but well concealed.

I have a spare so at least once a week I would spend half a day looking, finally last week I was thinking I would never hide the key on the tractor but what the heck, so I emptied the tool box and there in the bottom was the key.

 

[Tinhack]

Plus I'm a pretty handy burglar. From past experience, burgling is faster than waiting for a friend with a key.

That's the thing. The key is for you. If someone wants in bad enough, they don't need a key. My front door lock doesn't even work--Just pull on the knob and it opens. I have a lockable storm door but that's worthless too.

 

[Midniteoyl]

I bought one of these weatherproof magnetic boxes and hid a truck fob and house key in it on the back side of a metal rack in an out building..

Amazon.com

 

[Jstpssng]

Last year I found some keys in the yard that I lost about 2 years earlier. They were corroded to heck. Just glad the lawnmower didn't fling them into the siding.

Before I got my first puppy I lost a set of keys and had no idea where. She was about 4 months old when I saw her flinging something up into the air, watching it drop onto the lawn and doing it again.
At first I thought she'd found a frog and went over to try to discourage that behaviour. It turned out to be my missing keys.

 

[deserteagle71]

I guess I still live in a "high trust" part of the US. I have never locked my door and my keys are always in the vehicle.

I feel bad for people that don't get to experience high trust society livin...it's pleasant.

Same here!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

In the 1970s my Mother worked at an antique shop near home. The owner would lock up, put keys in a paper bag & toss it near the door.
She said thieves don't mess with a junkyard looking place and never look in a trash bag.

 

[ponytug]

That's the thing. The key is for you. If someone wants in bad enough, they don't need a key. My front door lock doesn't even work--Just pull on the knob and it opens. I have a lockable storm door but that's worthless too.

Once I saw how fast a burglar can get into a house other than a door, and how fast a professional locksmith can get through a lock made me come to peace with locks being there just to keep four legged critters out. The typical time to steal the catalytic converter from one of our vehicles is reportedly less than a minute. I think that angle grinders are just amazingly quick and effective against locks.

All the best,

Peter

 

[MossRoad]

That's the thing. The key is for you. If someone wants in bad enough, they don't need a key. My front door lock doesn't even work--Just pull on the knob and it opens. I have a lockable storm door but that's worthless too.

The art of burglaring is to not damage anything. Any hack can toss a rock through a window.

 

[MossRoad]

Same here!

On year on our block in the late 60s or early 70s, a single divorced mom with two kids got attacked in her own house, and a house down the street got vandalized heavily a couple times. After that, my folks gave me a house key on a chain around my neck and we had to lock the doors every time we left the house empty. All the neighbors pretty much did the same thing. It was a very secluded small block with 17 houses surrounded by a lake and farm. Sad end to innocence.

Around 1989 we bought 20 acres out in the country. There were only two houses across the highway, and about half a mile to any others. I spoke to the elderly lady across the street and introduced myself. I told her we were looking forward to building out of town. She said her husband was knocked unconscious and robbed on their front porch a couple years earlier.

No place is safe. Bad people have transportation.