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Do you keep your car keys attached to your house key?

65 replies

Obsesetits · 01/09/2025 07:22

Ive just been knee deep in watching “what’s in my bag” videos.. I know 🤣 pre-kids I was a handbag girl through and through and now my kids are old enough to not need a changing bag or bag full of spares everywhere we go I quite fancy myself a nice handbag again and o just got caught in a sea of ‘what’s in my bag’ while doing some handbag research 🤣

anyway, enough about me. These videos all seem to show people’s car keys.. and I never see any other keys on the chain?! Do people keep them separate?

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CaptainMyCaptain · 01/09/2025 07:50

TubeScreamer · 01/09/2025 07:46

Separate.
I don’t want to take bulky car keys if I’m just going out to walk the dog.

We have a separate house key on a fob for that type of scenario.

Redglitter · 01/09/2025 07:50

Mine are separate. My.car key is in a pocket in my bag. My car is keyless entry so it never comes out my bag.

Domino211 · 01/09/2025 07:52

Separate - it depends on what I’m doing/where I’m going which car I’ll take and I don’t want to have them off on one ring as it’d take up too much space in my bag

AnnaQuayInTheUk · 01/09/2025 07:53

I have a fob for my car and it's not got a way of being attached to a key ring. As long as it's in my bag or pocket I can open and drive my car. Which means I sometimes forge to put it back where it's kept and then have to try to remember which bag or jacket I was wearing the last time I drove it.

I don't have a house key. If I'm going out obviously I take a key with me but it's not "my" key. We have three or four copies of the front door key which sit in a bowl on the hall table. There's always one in the front door so the last person out uses that to lock up.

EveryDayisFriday · 01/09/2025 07:53

I don't have a car key (Tesla), my phone is my car key.

Luddite26 · 01/09/2025 07:54

Seperate for me.

whatsagoodusername · 01/09/2025 07:54

I have a house key attached to the car key because I will always need the house key if driving, but also have loose house keys if not driving so I don’t have to take the bulky keys.

Ddakji · 01/09/2025 07:54

No, they’re separate. But we don’t use the car on a regular basis (in London so not driving to work or school).

The car key lives in the teaspoon section of the cutlery drawer.

This has reminded me of my mum driving me to school and the jangle of her huge bunch of keys.

Obsesetits · 01/09/2025 07:55

EveryDayisFriday · 01/09/2025 07:53

I don't have a car key (Tesla), my phone is my car key.

What happens if your phone is dead and you need to pop out?! They don’t have a key at all?

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GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 01/09/2025 07:56

Seperate, I don't always want both with me, and sometimes DP is driving and I'm not. I also leave the house keys in the car when I'm out.

All keys together would be too bulky to put in my pocket, and I'm often out with just phone, wallet and car key so don't take a bag.

EveryDayisFriday · 01/09/2025 07:57

I keep my phone charged all the time for this reason. There is a back up key card that you press against the side of the car. I rarely take it out with me though.

TheNightingalesStarling · 01/09/2025 07:58

We have two cars which we both use, and sometimes go out on foot... there is keys for the house and storage unit on one of the car keys, but we all have house keys separate to that.
(Theres also the motorbike keys, and DHs work house keys, the workshop keys... then our actual work keys... we have a lot of keys. We would be like prison guards with them all on one key Ring!)

AllJoyAndNoFun · 01/09/2025 08:00

Separate. I don’t always need my house keys and I don’t always take my bag- quite often just take phone and car keys or phone and house keys so the less bulk the better. Also DH and I use the two cars interchangeably ( don’t really have a my car and his car) so easier to just leave both sets of keys where we can both find them. Garage key is separate again but that’s mainly as it’s a super old door/ lock with one key and I don’t want to risk losing it.

330ml · 01/09/2025 08:01

Separate. I don’t always drive the same car and sometimes I don’t need a car at all.

BiddyPopthe2nd · 01/09/2025 08:02

At home, I kept both on the same key as I used both frequently. And 4 other frequently used keys and some grocery points tags.

I am currently overseas for work, and had a car (until Uni student DD needed it more in her city near me). But I only used it at weekends and didn’t put the key with my house keys. Although the fob for the basement parking is on the house keys (so I don’t lose either it or the house key), along with a couple of grocery tags for here.

Thissickbeat · 01/09/2025 08:05

Together. But on a carabiner so I can unclip the house key when I go running.

TroysMammy · 01/09/2025 08:06

All my keys, house, work, parent's and sister's keys all together and my car key clips on to them. If my car needs to go into the garage I just clip it off.

Xiaoxiong · 01/09/2025 08:08

We have a keypad at home and I will never go back to house keys if I can avoid it. Absolutely love being able to change the code when I want, generate temporary codes if needed, etc.

Car keys are on their own with an air tag attached.

Iansavestheday · 01/09/2025 08:13

I haven’t needed to take a house key out in years so I only carry a car key. I used to have them together though.

scalt · 01/09/2025 08:29

Separate. My view is that if the bunch got lost, stolen, or dropped, I’d lose all the keys, at great inconvenience.

It’s also a habit from when I was a driving instructor: for tests, I’d have to hand the learner the car key, and I didn’t want them having all the other keys as well.

tripleginandtonic · 01/09/2025 08:31

Separate

theressomanytinafeysicouldbe · 01/09/2025 08:35

My bunch of keys make me look like a jail warden 😂

I don't even know what half of them are for but I know they do something

ARichtGoodDram · 01/09/2025 08:39

I keep my car and house keys separate after losing my keys one day and not being able to get into the car, but also not being able to just get a lift home as I couldn't get into the house. Typically it was winter, pissing with rain and freezing.

At least if I lose one set I can use the other.

Although the house keys isn't as much of a problem anymore as we have a key safe for DDs carers and nurses.

ExcellentDesign · 01/09/2025 08:40

Together for me, I use my car pretty well every day, no keyless entry so don't need Faraday pouches but it does have keyless ignition so they aren't dangling from the ignition as I agree that's annoying. I also have my work keys on there and my allotment key. DH is similar but without the allotment key. We both have airtags. If DH or DS is using my car I either have DH's bunch with his car and house key on in order to use his car or just use a spare house key if I'm leaving the house on foot. I also have a spare allotment key in case someone else has taken my bunch. It all works pretty well. The DCs use the single house keys, DS keeps his work keys separate.

Nourishinghandcream · 01/09/2025 08:51

Keep separate.
Would make the bunch of keys too cumbersome.

Many times we just want to lock the door (taking the dog out, going on the bus etc) so there is no need to be taking the car keys with us.
Also we have more than one vehicle so therefore even more keys.

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