Keys?

shadowtippy · #1 12-16-2010, 02:29 PM

I was looking through my junk drawer for some junk and ran across a butt-load of keys, I've got enough keys to qualify as a high school janitor. Most of them, I don't even know what they go to, other than locks. I've got keys to cars I haven't owned for 20 years. They seem to be multiplying, but I never see any baby keys. There must be a use for them. I guess I could make wind chimes.
BTW, it's a slow day here in my mind.

Deluge Of Sound · #2 12-16-2010, 02:32 PM

You can make a serious amount of money with that many keys.

Just ask Jay-Z.

GeneralElectric · #3 12-16-2010, 02:33 PM

Send them to me. I collect keys and make wind chimes.

MJ5150 · #4 12-16-2010, 02:59 PM

Maybe you have our front door key. Can you check please? It is a silvery copper color, about three inches long, notches on one side, and round on the top.

-Mike

shadowtippy · #5 12-16-2010, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by MJ5150

Maybe you have our front door key. Can you check please? It is a silvery copper color, about three inches long, notches on one side, and round on the top.

-Mike

I have one that seems right, I'll try it out next time I'm there. You don't have large dogs, do you?

rr5025 · #6 12-16-2010, 06:52 PM

If they're brass you can scrap them for some cash.

mid_life_crisis · #7 12-16-2010, 07:14 PM

In my case, the keys I don't need have made the ones I'm looking for disappear.

VS · #8 12-16-2010, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by rr5025

If they're brass you can scrap them for some cash.

lol

OtterOnBass · #9 12-17-2010, 01:08 AM

In my old house, an interior door had a keyed lock that got locked. So I contacted the landlord (a relative) and picked up the 'extra keys.' Three and a half peanut butter jars full of keys. Many were obviously classic car keys, and none fit the lock. I think I tried about a hundred. It took about 25 minutes. By the way, those door knobs are pretty secure. I ended up punching/prying through with hand tools, and it took about 20 minutes.

Hoover · #10 12-17-2010, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by shadowtippy

I guess I could make wind chimes.

+1. This is what I've always done whenever I find myself in possession of a buttload of keys. Then I bring them into the studio, use them on one or two recordings, and promptly misplace them! Why couldn't I just misplace them the first time around, instead of have them collect in my junk drawer?!?!?! I swear, I've gone through that scenario at least three times in my life: Collect keys, make wind chimes, lose wind chimes. Lather, rinse, repeat.

MJ5150 · #11 12-17-2010, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by shadowtippy

You don't have large dogs, do you?

Not yet. Our bloodhound is still a puppy. But it may be another story in a couple months.

-Mike

Fretless1! · #12 12-17-2010, 01:04 PM

Right now, I am carrying 17 keys, a mini-maglite, and a bottle opener. I keep my work keys on a separate ring from my home and car keys. I keep them all on a d-ring which I hang from my belt loop.

... thought I'd share.

**baba** · #13 12-17-2010, 01:12 PM

I must have over one hundred mystery keys. Hook a brother up with wind chime instructions!

Pilgrim · #14 12-17-2010, 01:15 PM

I clean them out periodically, and still have 20-30 extras around. I use the round paper tags for them, and try hard to label them before I drop them in the drawer where I keep keys.

Dave Klausner · #15 12-17-2010, 03:34 PM

There's a great prank you can do. If you have a friend who leaves his keys lying around, just add one of your old keys to his ring once a week. If he already has a bunch of keys, it's gradual enough that he probably won't notice (after all, we tend to be focussed on finding the key we need, not examining all of them). After a while, he'll be lugging around quite a load of them!

Skitch it! · #16 12-17-2010, 03:45 PM

Make an avant garde Stevie Wonder tribute album with them, Song's in the Key's of Life.

Phalex · #17 12-17-2010, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by OtterOnBass

In my old house, an interior door had a keyed lock that got locked.

My nephew rents a place that has a locked interior door. It's been locked for years, no one has a key, and for some reason they haven't broken it down.

Their cat will occassionally pull a piece of a dead furry thing from underneath it. He claims it's a dead possum, but what ever it is won't fit under the door. So they shove it back under, and the cat eventually digs it back out again.

I think it's creepy as hell, but they just refer to it as "The Dead Possum Room".

MJ5150 · #18 12-17-2010, 05:11 PM

Anyone got a skeleton key? I know Papa Justify does.

-Mike

**baba** · #19 12-17-2010, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave Klausner

There's a great prank you can do. If you have a friend who leaves his keys lying around, just add one of your old keys to his ring once a week. If he already has a bunch of keys, it's gradual enough that he probably won't notice (after all, we tend to be focussed on finding the key we need, not examining all of them). After a while, he'll be lugging around quite a load of them!

This is some much better than a wind chime. I'll be doing this, thank you.

OtterOnBass · #20 12-18-2010, 05:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Phalex

My nephew rents a place that has a locked interior door. It's been locked for years, no one has a key, and for some reason they haven't broken it down.

Their cat will occassionally pull a piece of a dead furry thing from underneath it. He claims it's a dead possum, but what ever it is won't fit under the door. So they shove it back under, and the cat eventually digs it back out again.

I think it's creepy as hell, but they just refer to it as "The Dead Possum Room".

Wow. I can't imagine living in a house with a locked room. That's so creepy and strange. I used an awl and hammer to punch holes, and a screwdriver to 'connect-the-dots' and make a crack.