[Futo Inu]

Gunsafe key is hidden "close by", but it could be easily found if searched for by an intruder, within 5-10 minutes, maybe less. Do you keep the key in another room, on your standard keychain you carry with you, with the backup hidden well, or all keys hidden well, or what? Good advice on a place to hide it which is not likely to be quickly found? If your public profile here is such that you may be identified, then reply by email or PM instead of a post please. Thanks.

[Carnitas]

Cheep wire hanger, the kind from the laundry with the paper covering the middle. Tape key to paper. Cover with old sweater/jacket that you never wear. Or, under insole of shoes you dont wear any more.

[TarpleyG]

I have one and my wife has one and they are always on our person when we leave the house.

GT

[Graystar]

My safe has a key and combination, and both are needed to open it. So I don't really worry about the key being found.

[TheeBadOne]

On my & my wife's keyring, and in my locker at work.

[clown714]

keyring,the spare,mmmm, well the spare is someplace:confused:


clown

[4v50 Gary]

Go to a second hand bookshop and find a used bestseller. Carve out a few pages and place some velcro into it. The matching velcro is glued onto the key so it won't drop if the book is deliberately pulled off the shelf and tossed or shakened.

[P95Carry]

Keep primary key - on person - at all times.

Back-up key ... hmmm .... well ..... plenty of places but .. just remember where you do in the end put it! Really embarrassed myself once with needing spare ...... could I find it??? Nope ... took a whole week nearly to track it down ....... too safe a place ya see!:D

Now ..... combination safe .... key is in my head ...... and nowhere else ....... well, I lie ..... wife knows it too, but she knows better than to go ''exploring'' ...... her HD gun is in bedroom anyways!

[Futo Inu]

k, thanks!

[Mikul]

In my garage is a box of keys. One of them belongs to the safe. The other 227 do not.

[TechBrute]

I like to keep it in the lock so I won't loose it.

[Mike Irwin]

Swallow it. That way you have access to it every 8 to 12 hours or so... :D

[P95Carry]

Swallow it. That way you have access to it every 8 to 12 hours or so... Dammit Mike ... you crack me up .... http://www.bedford.net/design/images/smilies/lol.gif

But, what if things get a tad '' bound up''?? :p :D

[Skunkabilly]

There are two types of keys: keys that are on your person, and keys that are misplaced.

[TechBrute]

There are two types of keys: keys that are on your person, and keys that are misplaced. There are two types of keys... the ones that are stolen and the ones that are lost.:D

[Mike Irwin]

How about keys that are in your person?

Do they qualify as being on your person, or being lost?

You'd think it would be alimentary, wouldn't you?

[Mike Irwin]

OK, enough funny stuff...

Years ago I had to hide a key in plain sight. I was going nuts, trying to figure out where I could hide it, but at the same time know exactly where it was, and know that the average person would never figure out where to look for it...

I sandwiched the key in a couple of layers of electrical tape, pulled a switchplate for a light switch, and taped it to the side of the box.

Switch plate went back on, light switch did its duty, and no one ever figured out that the spare key to my strong box was behind the kitchen light plate.

[toxic_todd]

I have two safes: The big shotgun safe key is always on me. The small safe is a combo (key and electric keypad) and I keep the key in it. It takes a number with two to eight digits to open and will lock-up after four mis-keys. If I need to, I can remove the key for extra security( gone for the weekend, vacation,etc......)

[Navy joe]

What springs to my mind is clipped to the collar of the house Rottweiller.