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Where in gods name are my car keys??

96 replies

Changingplace · 27/12/2025 21:43

Anyone got any bright ideas what on earth I’ve done with my damn car keys??

I must’ve had them to get back into the house, checked all coat pockets, bags, shelves (where I usually put them) drawers, kitchen, bathroom, inside shoes in the hall, pulled sofa cushions out & looked underneath??

Agghh, really need to go somewhere tomorrow - where have you lost/found keys before?

OP posts:
Summerbay23 · 28/12/2025 08:10

We had dropped ours by the car and a helpful person had put them on the bonnet (in the groove between the windscreen and window wipers). We didn’t find them until after we’d paid for new keys (£300ish!!!)

Londonrach1 · 28/12/2025 08:05

First thing is to stop. What did you do last time you had the car keys. I retrace my steps. Failing that it's in the airing cupboard or fridge

Rosealea · 28/12/2025 07:55

Gemütlich81 · 28/12/2025 07:46

From another thread are they in the box where you keep your outdoor cushions? 😅

I saw that and have to say he deserves not to find them until summer 😄

Tighteningmybelt · 28/12/2025 07:53

Mine were in the bin with a load of used wrapping paper

SophieJo · 28/12/2025 07:52

Hope you find them as I was in the same position a while ago. This is why I now have an Apple air tag on them which beeps when I try to find them with my iPad.

user1492757084 · 28/12/2025 07:51

In your husband's car?

pouletvous · 28/12/2025 07:49

Under the bed

Gemütlich81 · 28/12/2025 07:46

From another thread are they in the box where you keep your outdoor cushions? 😅

ClassicStripe · 28/12/2025 07:07

Mine usually turned up in the pram hood!

Newbuildtooldbuild · 28/12/2025 05:57

My partner took mine home by accident when we were staying at my parents! (Possibly my fault)

JohnofWessex · 28/12/2025 05:46

While I cant say I am perfect, being male I keep them in my trouser pockets so they always have a home they go straight to when I have finished with them.

Does your husband also have a key to your car or where is the spare?

Maryberrysbouffant · 28/12/2025 05:42

When you came home from shopping that day, where did you head to first? I’ve got a freezer in my garage so I’ve found my keys in the garage before, from going in there to put frozen stuff away.

GameofPhones · 28/12/2025 02:16

How I nearly lost my card wallet: I thought I had put it in my pocket, but saw it slide out of my trouser leg onto my shoe. Instead of my pocket, I'd unknowingly slipped it behind the waistband of my trousers.

OccasionalHope · 28/12/2025 00:21

Retrace your footsteps from when you last had them.

Check the present wrappings/bin bags from when you cut off sellotape/paper etc. Where you keep the sellotape, tags, paper. Where the presents were hidden.

Coat pockets. Laundry basket. Shoe racks.

Fridge, freezer, kitchen cupboards, where you keep your empty shopping bags.

PortSalutPlease · 27/12/2025 23:55

Changingplace · 27/12/2025 22:38

I last had them when I went Christmas shopping last Sat, then I wasn’t well with a cold for a few days and only used DHs car so I think they’ve potentially been missing for ages and I’ve just not realised 😩

I’ll have to look again tomorrow, I’m out of steam now and just going in circles.

When you brought the shopping bags in and dumped them down, they’re there….

Oldandgreyer · 27/12/2025 23:47

Jacket pocket. The other one.

Original poster
Changingplace · 27/12/2025 22:38

I last had them when I went Christmas shopping last Sat, then I wasn’t well with a cold for a few days and only used DHs car so I think they’ve potentially been missing for ages and I’ve just not realised 😩

I’ll have to look again tomorrow, I’m out of steam now and just going in circles.

OP posts:
Cyclebabble · 27/12/2025 22:37

Did you have a hat and gloves on? Could the keys be with these?

veryunsure2025 · 27/12/2025 22:36

In the car? In shoes? Pocket / bag / kitchen cupboard?

123456abcdef · 27/12/2025 22:35

Fridge
in the bathroom (rushed in to go to the loo and put them down)
outside of the door
coat pocket
did you bring anything in with you?
flat surface in the room nearest door

if you have an Apple phone buy an AirTag marvellous invention

Beesandhoney123 · 27/12/2025 22:35

Yes, behind the kettle.
In pockets, under ironing, under a chair, in a handbag. In my actual hand:)

We keep them in a pot in the kitchen now.

AtomHeartMotherOfGod · 27/12/2025 22:32

Icecreamisthebest · 27/12/2025 22:16

Check all pockets of clothes you were wearing not just coat pockets.

what else was in your hands when you came inside? Check all shopping bags and other items.

look around the front door, both inside and out. Maybe you unlocked the door and then dropped them.

dod you rush to the loo and leave them in there?

Yes on the windowsill in the toilet is a good bet.

In terms of kid hiding places, I've had two bright ideas that have yielded positive results in the past - in the hole in a speaker, and under a hot plate lid on a toy cooker (looked too small to hold anything much in there, but no; everything I was searching for had been squeezed in).

Other places - in the shopping bags, in the bin, on top of the bread bin, by the kettle.

PrincessOfPreschool · 27/12/2025 22:31

My DD hid them once in a saucepan (covered with lid) as I was going away for one night with DH and she didn't want me to go (grandparents babysitting). She was 3. I still don't know how on earth I even thought of looking there.

Rootatoot · 27/12/2025 22:30

In a bag having slipped through a hole in the lining

In the loo ( on the shelf next to it)

In a bag for life with the food shopping

In the fridge

Tucked in a bra when you didn't have a pocket handy.

In a coat pocket

Flatandhappy · 27/12/2025 22:29

Mine had fallen behind the radiator in the hall where I had obviously plonked them as I came in. They got caught on the bracket so didn’t just fall down the back.