I use a single key for the car and carry another on the set for the house. And yet a third key in a magnetic key box on top of the car frame. Difficult to get to but not impossible as a last resort.

Great idea!!!! I think that I will share it around to family. Normally I keep both house and spare vehicle keys on me.

here's another "lock out"--your gas cap,does it have a lock? does everyone who drives that car have a key or know where it is hidden in the car..i say this because--ya...i took off all the extra keys on my ring before i went on a two week canoe trip to cut down on the stuff i would have tucked away in my pack--id,cell phone,credit card,all the "real world" things..and yes when i swapped off keys onto another ring i just put on the car and house key..250 miles on the road i pulled in to top off the tank before heading down the trail to the canoe landing and no gas cap key....
well i ripped the cap off with a screwdriver explaining to some folks gassing up there powerboats what a dope i was to forget the key--so on--lucky that little town had a place to get a new cap..

I have a code lock on my tool shed and a house key well hidden inside there. Just recently I asked a good friend and neighbor to go inside and check out a fire alarm in our house. Worked like a charm.

We're a group of close friends that live fairly close together. We're probably going to implement that we don't stash our own keys in some hiding place on our property - we stash EACH OTHERS keys. Friend A has the key to friend B, friend B has the keys to friend C and so on. Any burglar who finds a set of keys in any of these hiding places will be though out of luck trying to find the house it fits to.

Of course the hiding places will be hard to find - but let's be realistic, there are not that many possible options (dry, out of sight but possible to reach etc) and a thorough search by anyone who's not totally dim witted will probably turn up some keys.

you didn't get that idea from MY geocache, did you? i have had a micro hidden in a storm drain like that for a few years...haven't seen it replicated anywhere, though.

i've been meaning to hide a set of keys ala GCing for a while now, but have yet to make the effort - despite having locked myself out at least twice since deciding i need a back-up plan.

dolt.

Our garage door can be opened with a keypad next to it. Just inside is the spare housekey we've got hidden.

As for my car the spare key is in my wallet pouch.

Locksmith or break cheapest to replace piece of glass in a pinch. =)

I have a spare car key attached to inside engine bay with a neodymium magnet, no way it's going to fall off. It doesn't have the remote for the ignition kill system but I know how to bypass it.

As for house key, I have key to the shed hidden in the yard, then house key hidden inside the shed. Chance of someone finding both is simply astronomical.