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[–] 95 points 7 months ago (27 children)

I do not understand this but maybe it's because I'm a guy and keep my keys in my front pocket. I keep literally the BARE MINIMUM of things on my key chain. So far as I even have separate keychains for separate vehicles instead of having one key chain for all of them. My SO on the other had has 2lbs of trinkets on her keychain.

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  • [–] 170 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Opposite goals. If it's in your pocket it needs to be minimal size. If it's deep in your purse, it needs to be easy to grab.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    And if it's on a carabiner on your belt loop, you want a middle ground which is a situation in which large hair ties really shine. Added bonus, you're likely the sort who needs one regularly and likes being able to offer one to people who need one.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Doesn't it make a lot of noise walking around with your keys constantly hanging on your belt? I would also be scared that someone stealing them while on the train or something.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Have you ever walked past a janitor or security person and heard their keys rattling? I don't think I have, and they typically have a lot of keys. Unless they're bumping into something, they should all swing as a single unit. It shouldn't really be an issue.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (16 children)

    I don't have Seperate Keychains for each vehicle, I have all of my vehicle keys on quick releases, so I can just clip on the vehicle key I want to drive. It's great. I do sacrifice minimalism a bit for some practicality in other ways, but yeah, I try to keep it light.

    Sounds like a lot of crap, but it ends up looking like this, which isn't too bad, considering all of the utility it has.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You should get an S carabiner for the flash drives so you don't have to plug your keys into your computer.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    The Ventoy stick i have is a Lexar 128GB one that has both A and C on it. Highly recommend as thats then one less thing to carry.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I really love the form factor of the sticks I carry, the solid one piece of metal with no moving parts. The dual ones always have a swivel, though that lexar one does look nice.

    The USB C adapter just goes on the end of one of the sticks so it doesn't really add another thing to carry.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Why would you want an USB-C for your Linux install drive??

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    The Ventoy thing reminds me of my minimalist setup:

    • My car keyfob.
    • My apartment key (on an extra keyring so it dangles lower to use immediately when I grab the whole set by the keyfob).
    • My mailbox key.
    • My work key.
    • Minimal 256 GB flash drive partitioned into 100 GB for Ventoy and 150 GB for random personal files. This is my favorite minimalist shape for flash drives by far.

    I have done geocaching and I've got a Steam Deck, so I may be borrowing the pen and adapter ideas, though I'll probably keep the adapter with the Deck.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I should definitely combine my flashdrives into one... But I haven't gotten around to that I suppose. The form factor of these is awesome, I've been using them for over 10 years, my first one was a USB-2 variant.

    I might steal the idea of putting my house key on a lower ring, I currently find it by feeling the teeth as they're newer and sharper than my parent's house key lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)
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    Same. I keep my car and house keys separate so I can leave my house keys in the car and just carry the car key in my pocket. My house keys are just the remote and key to get into my house, nothing else.

    My wife has all the other keys in her handbag, including all the spare keys because she can't find the main set in bag, so she takes the spares as well. Sometimes she also takes mine because she can't find the main set or the spare set in her bag (or wherever she placed them).

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  • [–] 59 points 7 months ago (22 children)

    One of the best things I ever bought was this bad boy.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Damn, I almost wish I had more keys just to justify this.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Honestly, it takes as little as like, 2 keys and you can load it with those little tags from supermarkets and such. Eventually I'll put my library card tag in there.

    Here's what my set looks like. Some 6 years post purchase.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    My muscle memory of knowing exactly how to move the keys to get the key I need and which keys I need to cycle through to find the one I need would be soo thrown off from this. Is it as handy as it looks that it'd be worth the trouble of relearning?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I had the same one, and my biggest complaint was that the screws would come undone in my pocket.

    But the second biggest complaint was that keys on opposite sides could sometimes get stuck together.

    I got rid of it and replaced it with a belt clip carabineer one and it's great. It also doubles as a belt end holder if your belt doesn't have one.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    You could probably use some removable threadlocker to prevent the first problem, though not sure how to fix the second one.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    You have to change all your locks to have only one type of keys though.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    No, it's pretty obviously just rods going through the "eye" of the keys, any kind with holes (which are the vast majority) should work. They're obviously gonna use the same kind of keys in the product photos but that doesn't mean its a forced thing. If it was a forced thing they'd not sell at all and wouldn't have come to the position of being mentioned here.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It only works with basic keys. Anything that isn't slender and flat with teeth on one side juste won't fit. Maybe all keys are like that in the US, but it's certainly not true elsewhere.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    That's what my key ring looks like :3

    I have 2 keys.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Don't hold out on us, show us a picture! Let us judge your tchotchkes!

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Careful, DO NOT share photos of keys with the teeth visible. It's possible to duplicate keys from a photo.

    Depends on your threat model of course, if you're just a guy (or gal) with no enemies or online fame/infamy, you probably don't need to worry about things like that. Just be aware of the possibility.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Why do some people do this? Like my keys are just the keys and a worn to shit batman styled multi tool, it started black and is now grey with black accents.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    My wife says so she can find them in her purse. I put a quick release on her actual keys for this exact situation. I can unhook all of her junk and just have her keys.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    I put a S-biner on my Jeep key for the summer because my wife liked to drive it with the top & doors off & girl clothes don't have reap pockets. She proceeded to take the key off of the quick release and attach it via the split ring to her car keys, airpod case, and little clutch purse so she wouldn't lose it.

    I explained that she could just unclip the key & she said "I did, but I still had to hook it to my stuff." When I explained that it unhooks from both sides, leaving the key on the clip so she could have just clipped it on, that was "too hard" and I was "being complicated".

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I don’t have a ton of stuff on my keys, but I do have a cute little rabbit from a Day of the Dead restaurant I went to on vacation. I love the little bunny because when my keys fall into the depths of my biggest purse, I can just reach in, feel for the stuffy squish, and pull.

    My keys consist of house, mailbox, bike chain, rabbit stuffy, TMNT Lego, and 3 library cards. My car key fob is on a separate ring with a long lanyard to find easily.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago

    My keys are on a stretchy thingy that attaches to a hook in my purse. Which usually hangs in front of my butt. So we say my ass unlocks doors because most of my keys are fobs. My wife has said to me in this last week "[YMCA] get over here I need your ass to unlock this" unironically. To which I responded "here just take my ass and unlock it yourself" and I handed her my purse, we have fun.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Labubu where

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  • No pink mace?

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    People with those types of weird wingdings, dingbats, dinguses, doohickeys, and thingamabobs crowding their keychains always puzzle me.

    Why not have proper, normal things one would use as key chains? Like:

    • A length of 7 links of cobalt kiln recovery chain you found on the floor of an industrial site.
    • The pin of a fire extinguisher.
    • A 7gb usb flash drive in the shape of a key that used to contain an encyclopedia but that now contains a Linux boot.
    • A heavy-duty rigging hook.
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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Where does one even find a 7gb flash drive, is that a thing?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    An 8Gig flash drive with bad sectors maybe?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Chances are, the encyclopedia company bought a batch that had bad sectors for this.

    The key contained an 'update' to the encyclopedia, probably because it was cheaper than what they did before, which was releasing supplements.
    All the data inside was about 1.7Gb or something like that, the entire encyclopedia in digital form, plus whatever updates they didn't bother release in paper.

    That encyclopedia was never used, of course. It has always been just a scam on an old lady that ended up becoming decoration, like many other leather-bound books in the house.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    I have two house keys, one small mailbox key, and a mini library card on my key ring. I don't even keep my car key on that thing.

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    [–] 12 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    My girlfriend has pepper spray on hers in addition to about 15 keys, a huge key fob, and she also collects keychains.

    They don't fit in any of my pockets.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    I never put keys in my pocket anyways. They go on a clip that hooks to my belt clip or pants.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I did that for years. Then I realized I was "that guy" who always jingled and jangled while walking around. I have converted to the pocket and I don't think I can go back now.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I like this except for there being no reason for her to do this. She's literally taking the keys out of her purse, where they fit, and handing them to a person not carrying anything to fit these keys. So that part I don't get.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    She may intend to leave her purse in the car and pass off her keys to her partner who has real pockets on his pants.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I carry stuff in my pockets already. I could fit an additional key on a ring, maybe with a small tricket too. Otherwise, I'd have to leave behind my needed pocket items to fit that. And it doesn't look comfortable either. You need a "valet mode" for that thing (easy detach car key only)!

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm my city in the mid-late 90s it was popular for girls to have long daisy chains of keychains hanging out of their back pockets, longer the better. The clatter between classes was maddening.

    It was like a right of passage to steal your first fistful of sassy keychains from Spencer's or Claire's. So dumb.

    I'd say the boys were more rational, but guys would compete to have the longest wallet chain (I had a degreased bike chain) if you were punk/alternative, or the widest Lane wallet (probably fake) sticking inches out of your back pocket.

    Oh yeah, and way too long braided leather belts that hung down past your knee.

    Edit: Maybe they were wide non folding zip around Coach wallets. I just remember they were super easy to steal.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Take keys, hand back pocket chachkies

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Yeah this is me lol.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    guy. this is rediculous. girl. well lets see your keys. guy pulls out massive pile of mini multitools.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Same, I don't get how people can have shit on them beside keys. My truck and car are from the 80s so they're nice and flat and even with 3 different door keys and two lock keys, my ring is only as thick as a new car fob by itself basically.

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