How to ensure safety of your keys

We check our locks twice when we leave our homes or workplaces. We do everything possible to make sure our homes are safe. But have you ever wondered how carelessly you treat your keys. Do you care for them as you keep your passwords?

Once the lock is put off, after that the key goes somewhere down the bag or pockets and we don’t even care to check them till we are back home. We even give the keys very easily to our friends or relatives despite knowing that they can be duplicated easily. So, keeping them safe is a most important thing as they are doorways to your home.

ensure safety of your keys

Introduction

It’s not rocket science to open the locks and break in your house. The teeth of the key consist of a sequence of numbers and anybody who knows this can easily create a duplicate key.

Once you lose your keys, you clearly know that your house is open to any kind of theft now. And this can happen if you are careless about your keys or keep them somewhere because you are in a rush or too tired to keep them at the right place. The chance of getting it duplicated becomes high if you lend it to somebody.

Following are some points that can help you to a keep your keys safe.

Following are some points that can help you to a keep your keys safe.

  • Don’t make it an object of attraction

Protect the keys in a similar way as you protect your credit cards, self identification cards. As keys are an identification to your house, safe or car so give them the utmost care.

ensure safety of your keys

  • Don’t leave the keys unattended

You never flaunt about your passwords or social security number or frame them and put up on your desk. So, do the same with your keys. Don’t leave them in an open area say at your desk.

  • Don’t share your keys with anyone

Anyone means not even with your closest buddies. Keep them in your wallet or pocket. Even while giving your car keys to the mechanic do not give the whole key ring.

  • Have high security locks at your home

Consult a good home locksmith and ask him for a high security system for your home. This is indeed a precautionary step in the case you lose your keys.

Also you can ask him for a key replacement technique if your keys are lost.

  • Don’t post pictures of key on the web

It’s good if Facebook has a share option. But it never says you to share your personal stuff. So, don’t post unnecessarily pictures of your keys on social networking sites.

  • Create a fix place at home for keeping the keys

Avoid that panic that pisses you off in the morning itself. Make a fix place for your keys so as not to get lost with them every time you look for them.

ensure safety of your keys

  • Be careful with the duplicate keys

It’s good to have a pair of duplicate keys but don’t keep them in easily approachable places. Hide it properly so that no one can easily find it.