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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:
AgentPidge · 27/12/2025 22:07

Mine were in a drawer. I'd been putting things away.

TappyGilmore · 27/12/2025 22:06

One time I found my keys in the front door, from the outside. They’d been there overnight. So fortunate that no-one decided to use them!

I make sure now to always put my keys in the same place when I enter the house. That’s because after years of leaving them in the door, we moved to a house which has a digital lock, so I thought they’d get lost very easily if I couldn’t put them in the door anymore!

Fantomfartflinger · 27/12/2025 22:03

Fridge

YorkshireIndie · 27/12/2025 22:02

A pair of wellies. I did once find a set in a pair.

ummm have you looked in the car? Children’s toy box?

firstofallimadelight · 27/12/2025 22:01

In a umbrella that was in a basket by the stairs

frontwoman001 · 27/12/2025 22:00

They're in your pocket

ImogenBrocklehurst · 27/12/2025 22:00

My sister found hers hanging off the rose bush by the front door, about six months after she lost them. Assumed a child had hung them there.

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 27/12/2025 21:59

Mine were in my husband's jeans pocket, hung up on the end of the wardrobe. He'd gone to look for a petrol receipt at some point and forgotten about it. We'd turned the house upside down looking for them. Nothing makes me more frantic than lost car keys.

Makingpeace · 27/12/2025 21:55

Dressing gown pocket?

PickleSarnie · 27/12/2025 21:54

Given the amount of cheese being consumed and wine drunk right now, I fully expect to find my keys in the fridge at some point over the next few days.

Ramblingaway · 27/12/2025 21:53

The fridge?

Gliblet · 27/12/2025 21:53

Under something you brought in from the car?
You put some shopping away and put the keys in the fridge with the milk?

WinterBerry40 · 27/12/2025 21:50

Someone else in the house thought they were theirs and have taken them out ?
You forgot something and popped back to the car and they are there ?
You have a young child and they have taken them - look in their toy box / bedroom ?
You've got on wash on , and they were in the pocket so ( unfortunately ) in your machine ?
They've fallen in the bin ?
They are still in the front door ?

stargazer02 · 27/12/2025 21:49

Is your car locked? Any chance you went back to grab more things after initially unlocking the house and set keys down in it? Or tried to put in a pocket and they dropped on ground?

Sprig1 · 27/12/2025 21:47

In the car? In the door?

ThatNewMoose · 27/12/2025 21:46

I found mine attached to the underside of a reclining chair, every time I opened it they disappeared into the chair as they were attached to the mechanism if that makes sense

Damnd · 27/12/2025 21:46

Mine were in the bin... No idea

TheNightingalesStarling · 27/12/2025 21:46

Outside of the door?

TimeForTeaAndG · 27/12/2025 21:46

Do you have kids, have they put them in their bag/toy kitchen/box of bricks?

ShipshapeShore · 27/12/2025 21:46

Another suggestion for shoes!

Siddalee · 27/12/2025 21:44

Mine were inside shoes that had been tidied away into the shoe cupboard.