BS: How many keys do you own?

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Dec 09 - 12:56 PM

Among the keys without a lock,
And the locks without a key,
The old boss-eyed binoculars
And sextants on a spree!

From "The Old Fiddle" by C. Fox Smith, describing Chinese Charley's junk shop.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 02:38 PM

My favorite keys are the keys to various churches that have been entrusted to me. When I drive up and down our diocese, it's great to know there's a warm, safe spot where I will be able to find anything I need. Or sleep there, etc. I call these keys my "overground railroad."

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 04 Dec 09 - 11:52 AM

As well as the identifiable ones there are all the mystery ones you daren't throw away in case the bag or box they fit turns up somewhere!
......of course the most mysterious key is the key I sing in...no-one has quite identified that yet!

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 08:21 PM

I got the key to the highway,
Yes I believe I'm bound to go,
I'm gonna leave here running
Because walkin' is most too slow

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Dec 09 - 01:26 PM

My car, Geoff's car, house, crook lock for my car, crook lock for Geoff's, caravan key, concertina case, that's just the ones I carry around. At home also have caravan toilet, wheel clamp, hitchlock, garage front door, garage back door, shed, various cottages in Whitby, old garage that fell down, shed that it fell onto, bike I sold, car I scrapped etc. put me down as 'lots'!

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 06:45 PM

88!







(just got a piano... sorry...)

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: GUEST,ToeRag
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 03:19 PM

The keys to her hart

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 08:02 AM

I own D Major, everyone who plays in it should pay me royalties.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 02:03 AM

On my keyring - apartment building front door, my security door, my front door, my window locks, building mail box, building storage room, shared back gate with neighbouring apartment building.

keys on my keyring I don't own - my Post Office box, Committee's PO Box, door & cupboard keys.

Keys sitting around here - keys to two 1920's wardrobes, antique sewing box key, neighbour's door key, spare window lock key, key to padlock on my travel bag, key to locker in Hall where we have our folk club & key to that Hall.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: open mike
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 02:00 AM

4 key rings full..
i almost had the AAA
shop make me a car key copy today
the kind that is plastic and looks
like a credit card...

but whenever i lock myself out of my
vehicle the extra key like that is
usually in my purse in the vehicle.

i have one key ring for the vehicle.
one for the r.v., and one for a room
i rent, and one for the storage unit.

i used to have some neat old ones made
into ear rings...

the r.v. i have came with different keys
for every compartment, and door. my mechanic
got a lock smith to change it so it just has
a couple now.

some keys were burned in the fire, but i have
a bunch that i do not know what they go to.
perhaps i should make a sculpture or wind chime?

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 01:39 AM

LOL! For sure, Carol. Or a pack of wolves. Or a herd of caribou.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: CarolC
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 01:20 AM

He has a really big back yard. I've seen it. He could keep an elephant back there.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Genie
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 01:18 AM

It isn't, Hawk? ; D

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 01:02 AM

Let's put it this way. If I had as many Dachshunds as I do keys, the backyard would be neck deep in dog shit.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: CarolC
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 12:58 AM

Far too many, and I just got two more (for the fireproof and waterproof safe we just bought). I only know what about a third of them actually belong to, but I'm afraid to throw any of them out in case they belong to something I need that's slipped my memory for the time being.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Genie
Date: 02 Dec 09 - 12:31 AM

I "have" all 12 keys, I guess.   
How many do I "own?"
Probably all of them, for singing, though mostly B, B flat, C, D, E flat, and D.

For playing guitar? Mainly just (pattering for) G, C, D, and (sometimes) E.

(Sorry.)*
































* not really

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Janie
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 11:01 PM

Not near as many as when I was a married to a pack rat with 6 old cars and trucks, a rented storage building, a farm with a barn and outbuildings used for storage, and two post office boxes. Funny thing was, the house where we lived didn't have functional locks so when we would go away we would deadbolt the doors, leave a window unlocked, and crawl through it when we got home!

And that's the truth!

Now, for personal use, I have a house, shed and car key, with a spare for each stored in a key cache under a rock in the yard. I also work in two clinics and have a private practice, and each of those sites require 2 keys - one to enter the building, and one to enter my office.

And I also have a key to my parent's house....somewhere.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Rowan
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 10:46 PM

My two hexagonal cases for concertinas have locks but only one had a key when it arrived at my place; the other now has a key that I found in a collection of antique keys that came my way because friends know I curate old stuff. Other types of (and more modern) cases have locks but I suspect the keys have been lost; they tended to have only about four variations anyway and were not worth keeping, let alone using. Keys that once were required but are now irrelevant I use as scrap metal.

Work has involved more keys than I can carry so I keep all except the ones to enter the building and my office in my office; but I wouldn't say I "own" them.

The rest are as minimal in number as I can organise and still operate the house and the car(s).

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: ranger1
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 10:08 PM

Oh, geez. Well, there are about eight copies of my car key (they all came with the car when I bought it), the key to the neighbor's house, the key to grandma's house, the key to the friont door of our building, the key to our apartment, the key to my storage unit, and then there are the nine keys on my work key ring. plus a bunch of random keys in a box that I can't remember what they go to.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 09:09 PM

What do you mean by "own"?

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 07:55 PM

400.000.0003/4

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 07:01 PM

Keys that I use regularly? Oh...maybe 6-7...Keys that 'might' fit something someday? 60-70.... many, many odd keys for simple old boxes and such. And some really odd ones like for old clocks...

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 06:55 PM

Since I no longer have a car and since I no longer manage apartments I have only 3: apartment, mailbox and outside lock. I do have a couple of padlocks complete with key in a drawer- got rid of everything else.

I may be the only person in the world to carry my keys on a thingamajig that I have had since 1949.

My family was leaving Oregon forever (Ha! I wss back in 7 years and my family was back within 10) and while we were waiting to board the train in Portland, my mother said that each of us could select something off the display rack as a souvenir.

I chose a laminated red rose on a stalk that is printed with 'Portland, Oregon City of Roses'.

It must be well made. It is more than 60 years old and there's not a crack in it.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 05:50 PM

Dozens, lost in drawers and purpose unknown (hmmm, where is that safety deposit key?). Couple of those European keys on a wooden pear that I forgot to return.

Keys for the house and car on a ring, the only ones with known purpose.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 05:45 PM

Right now were having to keep an eye on six houses - our own house, our daughter's house, our son's house, a flat were involved in renting out, and the house of my 98 year old father-in-law. And that's just for a start - there are back doors, car keys, gate keys...

Life gets too complicated. I wish I could just say "Open Sesame"

And then there are all the passwords and so forth.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Becca72
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 05:37 PM

I have 4 keys on 2 keyrings that I carry with me. The car key is on it's own ring after spending $350 to replace my ignition switch earlier this year. My other keyring has my 2 house keys and a key to me sister's place.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 05:23 PM

I have a new one, for my post box, outside my gate, and just for once, I can remember where I've put it, but....I keep forgetting to go and get my letters out of the box. Doh! :0)

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 05:20 PM

I have nine, but I only carry five of 'em on my keyring. The others are used rarely enough to be kept in a secret, undisclosed location and only brought out when needed.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 05:12 PM

2

key to her heart.
key to the future

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 04:47 PM

I literally had hundreds. Sold them on ebay in small lots - old skeletons earn good money. i have duplicate car keys and house keys - about 10 I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Rasener
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 04:47 PM

Well I own a Keyboard, a Donkey, a Monkey, a Bikey, a Drinkey and whatever is on my Keyring.

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 04:43 PM

Two for the house, one for the car and one for my bike lock. And about 4000 in a kitchen drawer that I have not a clue about!

Oh - C and G on my concertina. Dm and Am are simple. D if quite easy as is F. After that I am back in the kitchen drawer...

:D (eG

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: skipy
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 04:15 PM

Loads, I start a song in one key & them move around at random!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 04:11 PM

Yo SiX buddy! I was thinking about you this morn! Wondering if you were out with the K9s in the cold getting some pix (we had one of those great pix days with sparkly frozen rain drops and some light fluffies and it made me wonder if you had any frozen fog). Of course, I wondered about herself. I hope youse are well.

Glad to see your post!

Subject: RE: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 04:03 PM

2

1 for the car

1 for the house

all on an Aberdeen Subaru key chain.

biLL

Subject: BS: How many keys do you own?
From: gnu
Date: 01 Dec 09 - 03:59 PM

Yes, another one of those threads.

I have a 30mm key ring in my pocket that has so many keys on it, it's tough to get one off.

I have a small size ziplock bag half full. Not one ID tag. I know some by sight. I have many that are similar but fit different similar locks.... some of these have the manufacturer's name on the key and on the lock but even then, 6 different locks which have two keys each, well, it gets to "*&^R%^**!!! One of the &*^$&*) KEYS HAS GOT TO FIT FER...!!!"

I'd count them, but I'll just say shitload fer now.

Oh, yeah. I do have a set of 8 medium size locks keyed the same and a set of 32 large size locks keyed the same. Yes, 32. I went to Princess Auto one day looking for keyed alike locks after having to cut a handle off sommat up at the camp to avoid the long drive home and back. Cost less to buy the damaged equipment and the locks than the price of the gas.