So how are they hanging...I'm talking keys here.

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Now we all have to lug our keys around and some of us have a few more than others. Remember your elementary school janitor, poor guy walked leaned over to one side. (o; I've used this set up for 20 years and it works very well. The stainless steel clip is made by Wichard, came from a boat store and set me back about $10. The key on the bottom is on a push button release as it allow me to unlock the gun safe in my truck without having to turn off the ignition. This setup keeps your hands free and the keys are always in reach, I've never had a failure/drop of any kind. (I usually wear them on my right hip but until the cast for my broken right thumb comes off they stay on the left). So how do folks handle your keys?

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Bronze flag halyard clip I got while stationed on my first ship back in '81. Haven't lost my keys since!:)
 
A friend who has as yet not fully embraced the concept of combination locks, and who keeps every tangible thing he owns locked up, some way or another, lurches around, listing to starboard, dangling his clanging accumulation of keys from an overtaxed belt loop, on one of those spring-loaded clips usually used for dog leashes, garden gates, &tc. This is his modus operandum, and seems not to annoy him in anywhere near the degree that it annoys me ... I wouldn't tolerate that much mass in motion on my belt, where a gun is supposed to be...
 
As a lockheed guard I must have carried over a pound of keys all the time.
 
Thats funny Feral, my old friend Jim was the maint. man at the hospital I work at for years, I swear he walked sideways, with a limp, and one short leg because of the HUGE key ring he packed everywhere. I'd try to get him to switch sides to even himself out.
 
I just stuff 'em in a pocket. Every few years I'll prune out the ones that I don't recall ever using and toss them in a box or drawer.

It's getting on towards time to do that again, come to think of it...
 
I have several different key rings. As I drive older vehicles, and heavy key rings can cause ignition problems, my vehicle keys only have one or two other keys on them. Two sets of keys for the big truck (so I can leave it running but lock it), a large ring of keys for other locks on the truck, a ring for stuff around the house, and one for each of the cars. No, I don't carry all those at once. ;) "Home" keys go in the cupholder in the truck when I'm working, and "truck" keys go on the dresser when I get home.
 
I just don't get it...

You guys own a BUNCH of cars and houses that you use every day? My key ring has 4 keys. Car, truck, office, house.

I also don't understand carrying them outside my pocket. Seems like an excuse to lose them to me. Is it a status symbol thing that I'm not aware of?
 
westkybanded said:
I just don't get it...

You guys own a BUNCH of cars and houses that you use every day? My key ring has 4 keys. Car, truck, office, house.

I also don't understand carrying them outside my pocket. Seems like an excuse to lose them to me. Is it a status symbol thing that I'm not aware of?
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Yes, it's a status symbol and you need to catch up! :D

Actually some of us have more than one car. Work keys, house keys, and remotes.

Some of todays newer cars have the remote built in to the key and it's TOO big for the pocket.

Go back to my earlier post. No way to lose keys with the KEYSAFE.

Oh, and I'm a locksmith too! :)
 
Got to have the keys, the trucker wallet with the logging chain, John deere ball cap, can of cope, clip knife, many pens, cell phone and holster (studded), aviator glass`s, what else am I missing?
 
westkybanded said:
I just don't get it...

You guys own a BUNCH of cars and houses that you use every day? My key ring has 4 keys. Car, truck, office, house.

I also don't understand carrying them outside my pocket. Seems like an excuse to lose them to me. Is it a status symbol thing that I'm not aware of?
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You made me wonder... so here goes the list!

truck key w/ remote
hitch key for truck
toolbox key for truck
Swiss Army "Classic"
fire station
house
various saver cards (4)
pistol safe
rifle safe
tool shed
PO box key (2)
handcuff key
wife's car w/ remote

So ... maybe it's excessive. But I don't like having to go back into the house to get into the shed, or leave the key for my toolbox and trailer hitch sitting in the glovebox... :)
 
As you can imagine, when I was a guard at lockheed, if I/we ever lost a set of keys, the company might have to rekey maybe a 1,000 or more doors!! That wouldnt have been too career enhancing! Thank God, it never happened to me. I would have rather lost a company gun!
 
I don't carry that many keys, Just:
house
my car
wife's car
loading room
outdoor range key
Then, that large remote device to unlock my car.

My biggest complaint is the car keys. With them having such big plastic heads you can barely get them on a key ring. I've seen some where the remote is built into the key really big. I carry them in my pocket where they don't bang around and make noise.
 
Carry mine on the cheap climbing clip. Don't have any room in my pockets anymore with the:

cell phone
comb
pen
Swiss army knife
wallet
chapstick
pen light
work keys on a lanyard sticking out of the pocket
and a 638 in a inside the pocket holster :D
 
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