Don’t Hide Your Keys.

Okay, you are not a careless person, nobody could accuse you of being that. But one time you did lose your keys, you arrived at your front door and found that you hadn’t the means to enter. Of course it had to happen when there was nobody at home.

That was one frustrating experience that you don’t want a repetition of.

So you started to hide a key. No not under the doormat, you realized that would be an obvious place, you hid the key where you thought a thief would never look. Wrong. The thief will look there. Maybe you have got away with it so far, but the criminal will find your hiding place, maybe not today maybe not tomorrow, but . . .

Yes, wherever you think to hide your keys the thief will think to look. In fact he has a sixth sense about such things. Hide your house key under or in a plant pot, yes he will look there, on top of the door frame, he will check that out. Under a rock, in the mailbox, under that ornamental garden sculpture, in that hanging flower basket the burglar will think to try all those places.

How about those commercially available fake objects designed for hiding keys? Best bet is to forget about fake rocks, fake garden sprinkler heads and the like. Trouble with them is that your fake rock is likely to be pretty much the same as every other fake rock, when the burglar sees it he will recognize it straight away.

So just where do you keep a spare house key that will get you out of a jam should you lose your keys or leave them back at the office?

The best place to hide your keys is inside somebody else’s house. This has to be somebody you trust absolutely of course, and you have to trust everyone in his or her household too. A near neighbor is perfect, of course, if they fit the bill. But it does not have to be the neighbor that lives right next door, a walk for a block or two is far better than calling out a locksmith or attempting to break into your own house.

Whoever you hide your key with, make sure that it is not identified with an address tag, should your key-keeping friend suffer a burglary and your house keys are identifiable in any way then your home will also be at risk.

Should you lose your house key then you will want to change your locks or have them re-keyed. You do not want the risk of a key that opens your home being in the hands of a burglar.

• Don’t hide a spare key, the burglar will find it.
• Leave a spare key with someone that you can trust.
• Make sure that you never have anything on, or attached to, your keys that would identify them.
• If your house keys go missing change your locks or have them re-keyed.

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