Locked myself out again

[Yellow Fang]

Tricky, when you live alone. What do other people do to stop this happening?

 

[Saluki]

I keep a spare house key in my car. I keep another spare house key in my puncture repair kit, in my saddlebag. So far, it's worked.
Actually, not such a problem with this place as you have to physically lock the door when you leave. No Yale at this place.

 

[classic33]

Anywhere you can go, and do you know where your keys are?

 

[Profpointy]

leave the key on a string hanging down behind the letter box

 

[vernon]

My wife doesn't trust me with a key to the house. If she goes out she hides a key under a rock by the gate in a secret place known to both of us.

 

[vernon]

leave the key on a string hanging down behind the letter box

It's better to hang it just to the side of the letterbox where it can be hooked with an extended finger then it isn't visible to prying eyes.

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Install a key safe?

 

[ColinJ]

leave the key on a string hanging down behind the letter box

It's better to hang it just to the side of the letterbox where it can be hooked with an extended finger then it isn't visible to prying eyes.

My sister did that for her kids, who were always losing their keys.

It worked fine for a number of years, but scores of local teenagers got to know about it when coming into the house with my niece or nephew. Eventually, a few drunken locals staggering back from a night at the pub thought it would be a laugh to let themselves in. They found my sister's car keys on the kitchen table and took it for a spin. Literally! They lost control of it a few streets away and crashed it, then they decided to set fire to the damaged vehicle.

The police knocked on the door in the middle of the night and told my sister what had happened.

So ... I wouldn't recommend the key-on-string technique!

 

[swee'pea99]

I know I'm asking for trouble/hexing myself, but since I was in my late teens, I've always had one of these in my right rear trouser pocket:

Not that exact one, but always something along those lines. Keys, cards and cash, in one packet. Never lost it, never left it. Just can't go anywhere without it. Never do.

 

[vernon]

So ... I wouldn't recommend the key-on-string technique!

The OP lives on his own, needs it only on the extremely rare occasions that he locks himself out so the risk is very much lower.

 

[vernon]

I know I'm asking for trouble/hexing myself, but since I was in my late teens, I've always had one of these in my right rear trouser pocket:

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Not that exact one, but always something along those lines. Keys, cards and cash, in one packet. Never lost it, never left it. Just can't go anywhere without it. Never do.

I had one of those and I lost it along with my keys, cards and cash.

 

[slowmotion]

Leave a couple of them with some neighbours. BTW, my wife locked me out in the garden while I was having a crafty gasper twenty two years ago. She was pregnant at the time, locked the door and went to bed. No amount of shouting and banging could rouse her. I took a spade from the shed and attacked the 20" square window pane into the loo (it was surprisingly resilent), and slithered in through the broken glass onto the top of the WC pan. Realising that my neighbours might report some kind of break-in, I made a pre-emptive call to The Constabulary....

" Yes Sir, been locked out by your wife, Sir.?...I quite understand..."

 

[smokeysmoo]

I've always had one of these in my right rear trouser pocket:

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but it's got no keys in it

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I buried a spare set in the garden a few years ago. I never found out what became of it, because I tried digging it up earlier this year (my parents were visiting), and never found it. I reckon it was probably stolen by an evil mole, which let itself into the house, and is now watching my every move...

 

[Accy cyclist]

I have my ladders in the backyard and the front upstairs window is open most times.