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Key Keepers & Why You Need One
Yesterday’s list of 12 Simple Ways To Smooth Out Your Mornings won’t help with starting your day right if you find yourself running from room to room digging in pockets or emptying purses and totes in a panic trying to find your keys.
You need a key keeper so you always know just where your keys are right when you need them. The system is so simple to implement that if you don’t already have a key keeper in place, you’ll wonder why you resisted against setting this up for your household!
If you do have a system in place but aren’t having much success using it consistently, I have a few tips below that may help:
Setting Up & Using A Key Keeper System
- Never put keys in your pocket or bag or set them down just anywhere when you enter your home, hold them in your hand until you put them in your chosen key keeper. By keeping the keys in your hand, you’ll get into the habit of going directly to the place the keys are kept without thinking twice about it.
- Have the key keeper as close to the most used entrance as possible. Some like to have a little table at the entrance that will hold a dish for keys, others may choose to hang a key cabinet on the wall. You want the location to be as convenient as possible so an excuse for resistance is removed. **Keep in mind that burglars can be wily, keep your keys out of reach (by hand or gadget) of any opening to the outside (pet doors, mail slots, etc.).
- Don’t allow the spot you choose to hold your key keeper become a clutter “hot spot”. It’s a hassle pushing piles of receipts or papers around trying to find your keys or find the dish to set your keys into, this just makes it easier “not to bother”.
- Choose the most simplest device possible to keep keys. We use a key cabinet to hold spares and other keys that aren’t needed on a day-to-day basis, but we also have a dish right by to toss our daily key ring into. No hanging on hooks, no cabinet doors to open and close. This works because you’ll have moments when you’ll be tempted to skip the effort of hanging your keys by putting them in your pocket or setting them down somewhere (examples: you’re rushing in with your hands full or the phone’s ringing just as you walk in the door). With an open dish, it’s easy to toss the keys into it while running.
- Set it high enough out of reach so little hands can’t get at them. Trust me, this one’s a biggy!
- There are so many different containers you can use: recycle a margarine tub, rescue an old piece of tupperware or choose a pretty piece of porcelain or even a vintage refrigerator dish. Choose something that has a large opening and not too deep so you can put your hand in easily to grab the keys.
Once you’ve developed the habit of using your key keeper ALWAYS, you’ll never again be in a panic looking for keys–they’ll be exactly where they should be. If you don’t already have your key keeper system in place, this is a great opportunity to add a useful and pretty puttery treat to your home.
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Keeping your keys near your front or back door is NOT a good idea. We have had a spate of burglaries in our town (including my own house) where the burglars have ‘fished’ for the keys through the letterbox or catflap. The advice of police here in the UK is to take the keys upstairs to bed with you.
Great tip amanda, thanks so much for pointing that out! I’ll update the info so it’s clear not to literally keep the keys within reach of an opening (if you have one).
The best place to drop your keys is in the bathroom, likely the first place you go in morning and evening!
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You can put a key hook or something similar on the wall behind the door.
It works for my keys AND my glasses.
If you have very much company and only one bathroom, I wouldn’t think the bathroom would be a good idea, but if you have a separate, private bathroom that guests don’t use, then that would be ok.
I use a carabiner to always clip y keys to the strap of my purse, which I usually hang on the back of a dining room chair (not near windows or doors.) I even do this when I am out and after locking the car I clip the keys onto the purse and drop them inside, still attached to the handle by the carabiner. I never have to search for keys, whether at home or out.
I keep my keys in my purse and my husband keeps them in his pants pocket. If you have to vacate your premises in an emergency all you have to do is grab your pants and or your purse and you have transportation because you have your keys.