Comments on: DIY: Hide a key outside your home where no one will find it! http://www.practicalhacks.com/2008/04/21/diy-hide-a-key-outside-your-home-where-no-one-will-find-it/ Gadgets, gear, and greatness for people on the go Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:18:47 -0600 hourly 1 By: Kevin http://www.practicalhacks.com/2008/04/21/diy-hide-a-key-outside-your-home-where-no-one-will-find-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3385 Kevin Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:53:37 +0000 http://lifeapps.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-3385 1. Getting into your home requires 4 keys? 2. What "gaget" do you refer to? Velcro? It's just one option. 3. How is that pertinent? 4. Again, how is this relevant? A car isn't necessary. 5. Perhaps hide a key at night... ? The post is meant to illustrate a few general concepts for how one might hide a key. Perhaps you can use one of these, or get creative. I can't prescribe how exactly you can go about doing that. Good luck. 1. Getting into your home requires 4 keys?
2. What “gaget” do you refer to? Velcro? It’s just one option.
3. How is that pertinent?
4. Again, how is this relevant? A car isn’t necessary.
5. Perhaps hide a key at night… ?

The post is meant to illustrate a few general concepts for how one might hide a key. Perhaps you can use one of these, or get creative. I can’t prescribe how exactly you can go about doing that. Good luck.

]]> By: Mark Jane http://www.practicalhacks.com/2008/04/21/diy-hide-a-key-outside-your-home-where-no-one-will-find-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3382 Mark Jane Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:38:05 +0000 http://lifeapps.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-3382 About keys outdoor - 1. J have 4 keys 2. I don´t have your gaget- 3. I live in Sweden 4. I don´ have a car 5. I live around public yard Any ideas , not only suiting you ? Jane About keys outdoor –

1. J have 4 keys
2. I don´t have your gaget-
3. I live in Sweden
4. I don´ have a car
5. I live around public yard

Any ideas , not only suiting you ?

Jane

]]> By: Kevin http://www.practicalhacks.com/2008/04/21/diy-hide-a-key-outside-your-home-where-no-one-will-find-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2852 Kevin Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:02:31 +0000 http://lifeapps.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-2852 Perhaps someone commented to this effect, or maybe I saw it somewhere else... some people have worked out a deal where they hide a key outside their neighbor's house, and the neighbor hides a key outside their (the first party's) house. If anyone (a burglar, etc.) finds one of the keys, it won't unlock the house they're at. Of course, you can only do this only with <em>really</em> good friends! Perhaps someone commented to this effect, or maybe I saw it somewhere else… some people have worked out a deal where they hide a key outside their neighbor’s house, and the neighbor hides a key outside their (the first party’s) house. If anyone (a burglar, etc.) finds one of the keys, it won’t unlock the house they’re at. Of course, you can only do this only with really good friends!

]]> By: Non Sequitur http://www.practicalhacks.com/2008/04/21/diy-hide-a-key-outside-your-home-where-no-one-will-find-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2850 Non Sequitur Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:21:45 +0000 http://lifeapps.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-2850 In the Rocky Mtns, lots of people walk around old neighborhoods with metal detectors, the perfect device for finding keys in landscape rocks and under mulch. Magnetic hide-a-key devices can fall off your car when you hit a bump, especially after they get rusty, or your mechanic may find your key while working on your car. However, I like the idea of wrapping the key in an oily rag before placing it in a plastic bag, but what if the ground gets frozen? Then of course you could bury the key in the alley or another location a block or 2 away from home; then if someone else found it, they would not know what house it belonged to. I was in a hurry to get to a restaurant before it closed, and recently locked myself out of the house. I borrowed a crowbar from a neighbor to raise one of my porch windows. When I needed an additional block of wood to leverage the crowbar, I walked around back of the house, only then to discover the key was hanging on the key chain draped out of my pocket all along. In the Rocky Mtns, lots of people walk around old neighborhoods with metal detectors, the perfect device for finding keys in landscape rocks and under mulch. Magnetic hide-a-key devices can fall off your car when you hit a bump, especially after they get rusty, or your mechanic may find your key while working on your car. However, I like the idea of wrapping the key in an oily rag before placing it in a plastic bag, but what if the ground gets frozen? Then of course you could bury the key in the alley or another location a block or 2 away from home; then if someone else found it, they would not know what house it belonged to. I was in a hurry to get to a restaurant before it closed, and recently locked myself out of the house. I borrowed a crowbar from a neighbor to raise one of my porch windows. When I needed an additional block of wood to leverage the crowbar, I walked around back of the house, only then to discover the key was hanging on the key chain draped out of my pocket all along.

]]> By: Brian Holloway http://www.practicalhacks.com/2008/04/21/diy-hide-a-key-outside-your-home-where-no-one-will-find-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2684 Brian Holloway Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:19:42 +0000 http://lifeapps.wordpress.com/?p=94#comment-2684 Great article. I used to hide my spare house key in the bottom of the BBQ under the ceramic briquettes. Seemed like a good idea. Except who would have thought that the burglar's family did the exact same thing. He spent 3 days in my house selling off my stuff while I was on vacation. Lesson learned. Great article. I used to hide my spare house key in the bottom of the BBQ under the ceramic briquettes. Seemed like a good idea. Except who would have thought that the burglar’s family did the exact same thing. He spent 3 days in my house selling off my stuff while I was on vacation.

Lesson learned.

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