I purchased a "Hide a Key" online and keep it in a discreet location under my car.

What, nobody has staff to let them in?

Geez, ppl. Chill on the paranoia. You think a thief doesn't already know to look under the doormat, flowerpots, and rocks around the porch?

The best place to hide things is always high above eye-level, not below it. Mine's hidden under the back-porch eave well out of sight & reach on a hook where only I (and the people that need to know) know the spot to aim for it. Front porch is a bad idea in case the wrong person happens to see you reaching up and feeling around for it.

I assure you that any robber knows to look under the mat, flower pot, inside the South Mountain Creamery box, under a rock near the front door, etc., to get into your house. But they probably don't want to.

Hang it next to my front door

I live in a very secure neighborhood

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone post this online?

Because there are hundreds of thousands of houses, so if you want to try to find pp's grill with the key under it, you go right ahead and be everyone's guest.

Millions of houses! Let us know how it goes!

A good hacker (or Jeff) could find out where you live. Hasn't anyone learned anything from the AM hack? Anything you post online can be traced back to the originating computer.

I love the idea of Jeff taking time off from running the site to go prowling round Chevy Chase, looking for spare keys in sheds and under fake rocks.

Jeff is too busy moving posts to the right forum to have enough time to do that.

Calling all crooks! come here for your ideas on how to break into all those houses

When I was a latchkey kid in the '70s we kept our extra house key on a long string behind the bush next to the front porch. How's that for making it accessible to thieves!

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone post this online?

Because there are hundreds of thousands of houses, so if you want to try to find pp's grill with the key under it, you go right ahead and be everyone's guest.

Except Jeff knows it all.

We have a hiding place inside the garage that would probably take someone a significant amount of time of concerted searching to find. It's not at all obvious or easy to identify. We have garage door openers and a keypad to get into the garage.

Anonymous wrote:One of those fake rocks in the garden. It's been a lifesaver!

+1 used it yesterday!

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone post this online?

Because there are hundreds of thousands of houses, so if you want to try to find pp's grill with the key under it, you go right ahead and be everyone's guest.

Millions of houses! Let us know how it goes!

A good hacker (or Jeff) could find out where you live. Hasn't anyone learned anything from the AM hack? Anything you post online can be traced back to the originating computer.

I love the idea of Jeff taking time off from running the site to go prowling round Chevy Chase, looking for spare keys in sheds and under fake rocks.

Now THAT would be a funny sitcom!

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone post this online?

Because there are hundreds of thousands of houses, so if you want to try to find pp's grill with the key under it, you go right ahead and be everyone's guest.

Millions of houses! Let us know how it goes!

A good hacker (or Jeff) could find out where you live. Hasn't anyone learned anything from the AM hack? Anything you post online can be traced back to the originating computer.

I love the idea of Jeff taking time off from running the site to go prowling round Chevy Chase, looking for spare keys in sheds and under fake rocks.

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Anonymous wrote:Gave one to the neighbors on either side.

Giving a key to the neighbors is a bad idea. Criminals know that people don't hide their neighbor's keys as well as they hide their own. My guess is that your neighbor has your key in a kitchen drawer. If they get robbed, you're next. Also, contractors that come to their house (cleaning, etc.) have access to copy your keys.

It must be really hard for you on a day to day basis with this level of paranoia. Your poor husband.

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Anonymous wrote:Leave the key inside a lock box with a combination. Then hide the lock box somewhere.

Exactly

http://www.gokeyless.com/product/2204/master-lock-5400d-portable-key-safe

This seemed like a great idea for us until the damn lockbox rusted and I was locked out of it! back to garden rock for me,