Terrible ADD here. Solution: mine are on a large 4" keyring that gets hung over whichever doorknob I enter the house from. Since implementing that system, I've never lost 'em!

Since buying our Explorer with the same keyless ignition, I keep mine in my purse 24/7. If I take it out, I end up looking for it forever and if I try to start my truck and it won't, I know I need to go look for my purse! :)

Mine are on hooks stuck into the underside of a shelf in the laundry room. Since we have a lot of equipment and outbuildings with keys/locks, we have quite an assortment. I have three hooks that are for me. I have a carabener with my house/work keys on and then a ring with Dh's car keys, the truck keys and my car keys, so depending on what vehicle I'm in, I can have my house keys and keys to that vehicle.

Normally I clip my keys to my purse when I'm only going back and forth to work and don't need to be swapping something out. We have a key fob system at work, so I can't get access to most of the buildings on campus without it.

This is a Before shot. I had a great little brass key hanger (#1). That was back in the day when I thought nothing of pounding a nail anywhere into the side or doors of my cabinets. I can't bring myself to do that now, so my keys go on the corner of the bookcase on the other side of the wall (#2). Ends up working just as well.

I dunno...they're around here somewhere....

Mudroom key holder.
~boxer

Although this key holder is sooo cute.

Right now I have a sideboard which will eventually be replaced by cabinetry for a wet bar. It's quite close to the garage door. I have a drawer that has a silverware divider and I keep the keys in there. Or if I'm lazy, will leave the key on the top. I could use a dish or hook instead, but generally I keep the keys right there. We have several vehicles, so each of us has a few sets of keys so it's great to have a single place for everything.

What about on the inside door of your utility closet? Use hooks that have the removable adhesive so it doesn't damage your cabinets. We currently have about six of those hooks on the inside of a cabinet door where I keep office/mail stuff and I plan on doing something similar with our new kitchen. The key is (no pun intended!) to always put them in the same place. :)

We also have keyless entry, so lives in my jacket pocket until summer and then will figure out the next plan.

I also created a little cubby in our "caves" in our sunroom and using one of GrumpyDave's boxes for all of my last minute add to "bag" or jacket.

I gave up carrying a true purse many years ago.

I bought something similar to this from Ikea years ago. I enter the house from the garage. Inside the house there is a closet. We mounted it on the inside of the closet. It holds the back garage keys, lawnmower keys, neighbor's keys my DH's several sets of keys and my keys. I am the worst one for forgetting to hang them on the hook! Sometimes they are in the kitchen if my hands are full and I am bringing in groceries. My DH actually bought me a key finder! A tiny box sits on the shelf in the closet and you hook a little fob on your keys. If my keys are not on the hook when I am going out then I push a button on the box and my fob goes off like an alarm. No trouble finding them now!

In my pocket. When they aren't in my pocket, they are in my dressing area with my wallet. I don't understand keeping them in the kitchen or other "public" space in the house, though I know many do it.

Many years ago, a teen-aged baby sitter used the car keys of friends to "borrow" the car after she put the kids to bed. She scraped a parked car and didn't leave a note. When the cops followed up, she accused the husband of making advances and said she had taken the car to try to find her mother. This led to an arrest, bail and a lot of turmoil and disruption for our friends before it became clear that the girl didn't have credibility, was lying to try to get out of trouble for the car borrowing and hit and run.

Our friends kept the car keys on nicely labeled hooks by the garage door in the kitchen. Since they were out with one car, the other keys were on their hook available for the baby sitter.

I didn't mean the keys shouldn't sit by the cell phone charger, I really meant next to cordless phones like in the photo. I thought of that when I was halfway to archery this morning. Ah, well.

Great ideas, folks! I really envy those of you who have mud rooms and/or laundry rooms. Our garage serves both those functions, but is clearly not a suitable place to leave keys.

Boxerpups - that is the world's cutest key holder! I'll bet they make them in a Golden Retriever form :-)

Cloud Swift - that is a horrifying story! Thank goodness there was never an emergency with the kids as this girl seems to have lacked any good judgement whatsoever. Horrible, horrible.

P.S. I gave up carrying a purse years ago. I object to becoming a one-handed person, so I only carry what fits in my pockets and I only buy pants with real pockets, not those cutesy 2-inchers you sometimes see. If I really need to carry stuff like a sweatshirt or water bottles or whatever, I will take one of my re-usable grocery bags with handles long enough to hang over a shoulder. At least that leaves you with 1-1/2 good hands.

cloud_swift, what a nightmare for your friend! I've always parked my keys in the kitchen (public space) because it's my command center, the place from which I gather my things and leave the house and the place to which I return. It's where I gather my thoughts, maintain my calendar and message center. I don't leave the house without a last stop (did I forget anything?) in the kitchen.

We leave the keys in our cars in the garage.

In the garage inside the car. The spares hang in the kitchen inside the vent hood over the stove. (for some reason)

Well the set of keys that has been missing for 3 months obviously wasn't put back where it belonged. Sigh.

We have an entryway mirror/organizer that we bought at Pottery Barn many years ago. It has a little hook on each side- that's where we hang our keys. We used to just drop them in a decorative bowl on the console table in the entryway, but then our DS got old enough to grab them and push the red button for us.

the only time my keys are not in my purse is when they are in the ignition. so: keys in purse in mudroom hanging in my cubby on a hook.

I keep my keys in my purse. DH keeps his in the kitchen desk drawer....well until he didnt. We looked high and low and never found them....a very expensive mistake as these keys are now electronic with a chip in them. Replacement cost....$340! Ouch!

In my purse, always. DH has a basket for pocket-emptying on the corner of the bookcase closest to where we come in.

We have the hooks and now are hunting for a new place to hang it. I will be hiding the spares when the sitter comes over for sure now!!!!

In my purse (a shoulder bag, leaving both arms pretty available). It's one less thing to think of before I leave the house.

Circus - love your solution;) I can NEVER find mine. . . 3 kids and undiagnosed ADD is a bad combo. . . My problem is I probably won't remember to hang them on the hook. I think I need a new car with no keys:)

We have a small antique table by door to the garage, and that's where I usually put my sunglasses and my keys. Other times they get dumped into my purse, fall to the bottom, and then I'm hunting all over for them.

Mine are usually in or clipped to my purse (a non-disabling back pack style)...or on the floor near my purse near wherever I stopped upon entering the house; DH has really tried to train me to hang them on the hooks by the door, but I think it's a lost cause. At least with the carabiner I don't lose them as often as I used to!

How far away do they need to be from the phone charger? Would it help if they were *in* something, like a basket, so there was a bit of a barrier between the phone and fob?

Once I spent HOURS looking for my keys. I finally found them - in the wall. Our renovation is far from complete, and the window trim is missing in several rooms. My almost-two-year-old took them and dropped them between the outside wall and the stud walls. It's a good thing the cavity is well-insulated, because the keys got caught on the fiberglass batting rather than dropping through. Since then, I leave them in a bowl on a desk by the front door. Much safer from sticky fingers.

I have mine clipped to my wallet/cell phone holder combo. Havent lost 'em since!

MIne are in my purse, DH's in a small bowl on the hutch by the door.
With the reno, we installed a keyless entry on the door from the garage into the kitchen. It is awesome. We'll never be locked out again (and believe me this has happened more than I care to admit).

I made a keyrack/tray combo that we keep by the door leading out to the garage. Keys hang from the keyrack, and on top is a small shelf for outgoing mail, sunglasses, and yes keyfobs.

Mine are attached to my purse and DH's are on the telephone stand at the entrance to the kitchen. He loses them all the time and I always know where mine are. All of my regular clients' keys are attached to my purse as well. I can't afford to lose my keys or purse.

Peonybush my keyless entry was wonderful, until the battery quit one day and DH couldn't find the key for it! He was lucky that our son was home to let him in. We got DH another key cut from mine, just in case. Sigh. I wonder if I should hide a key anyway.

Yeona

Here's my solution. In the hallway right outside the kitchen. Also stores glasses and misc stuff that doesn't have a home.

I keep MY car keys in my purse. But I keep all my other keys, including my mailbox keys, the house keys and mailbox keys for the other unit in the building, and my STBX's car keys in a basket on a shelf by the front door.

Suzanne1, I gave up on a purse years ago, too. They ended up holding everything including the kitchen sink and weighed about that much.

I put mine on a bookshelf, which is in the room near the front door. When I get myself painted, they'll hang on a cute little dragonfly hook I bought at Lowe's.

In the meanwhile, if they're not on the shelf? I'm screwed.

I have a 6 hook thing that's attached to the wall, just inside the door the leads to the garage. we hang them there automatically as soon as we walk in. The kids hang theirs there too when they visit.

I love all your hooks! Currently the keys are sitting in a Trader Joe's "Expresso Pillows" tin on a shelf on the hutch. Not a great solution, so I'm gathering all your ideas and mulling them over. Thanks!

In my pocket. All the time.

The other keys for the other vehicle are on a hook under a cabinet in the kitchen. That vehicle doesn't get driven but once or twice a month.

Our keys hang on hooks in our mud/coat room. We almost always enter and exit via this entry.