Comments on: Minimalist Life: How Many Keys on Your Keychain?

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:55:58 +0000

My mother’s keychain seriously weighs more than my cat. She seems to like the metaphorical heft of all the responsibilities the keys imply. I’m sure some of them open doors, cars, sheds, and toolboxes that are not in anyone’s possession any longer. Perhaps it’s her way of remembering, kind of a timeline of dwellings and passages.

By: Simplifying Bulky Keychains — 4 Plates, 4 Cups, 4 Bowls

Simplifying Bulky Keychains — 4 Plates, 4 Cups, 4 Bowls — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:27:14 +0000

[...] always had ‘key-issues’ and a recent post by Miss Minimalist got me thinking about how best i should deal with organizing my keys in the most efficient [...]

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:40:43 +0000

I have tried to minimalize my carried keys, but my current apartment condominium is a disaster. Before I moved here all of this was covered by “home key”. But now, I have the following to be able to live here.
1. My personal front Door/Storage Locker Key
2. Back door complex key for taking out trash to the dumpster
3. Dumpster key for opening it to put trash in
4. Key fob for elevator use/front door complex access
5. Gate fob for parking garage gate (when leaving/returning via vehicle)
6. Mailbox Key
AND, I actually have one key fewer than most, the previous owner keyed alike the front door and storage unit in the parking garage. Overall, it’s a very poorly designed system, but I need to carry all of these to simply navigate my complex.

Other than that, I only have:
7. Car Key
8. Father’s House Key (over there frequently)
9. Father’s Elevator Key (elevator opens directly into his condominium so you need a key to get up the elevator)

A bit of a pain, but worth it to live in a big city

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:06:45 +0000

WAY too many keys… I won’t count the small ones that I rarely carry (like luggage locks, gun locks, etc), just the ones I may be found to be carrying on a regular basis.

1 for the parent’s house.
6 for my house (yes, 6. 4 outside doors with deadbolts mostly keyed different, it’s especially ridiculous since it’s a relatively small house, it just has an excess of exterior doors.)
4 for the cars (3 cars, 1 of which has a separate key for the trunk)
3 for work (1 for the door and 1 for my desk at job #1, 1 for the door at job #2)
4 for the airplanes I fly (1 for each in the club I’m in, I don’t own any of them)

By: Sierra

Sierra — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:56:30 +0000

I carry 3 keys: House, car, and my music store (there, I have like 15 different keys to our teachers studios). Sometimes I carry a 4th key when I’m pet-sitting.

By: miss minimalist

miss minimalist — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:04:04 +0000

Michael, I’m so happy you enjoyed my book — thank you very much for your kind words!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:37:01 +0000

First, I love your book, “The Joy of Less” and have read it twice since receiving it as a Christmas gift from my amazon.com wishlist! Although I consider myself a minimalist having been a Peace Corp volunteer, I learned a lot through your book and have decluttered my place even more than I imagined! It feels so freeing getting rid of things. Thanks so much!

Anyway, I have three keys-mailbox, townhouse, and Prius.

By: Janetta

Janetta — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:57:13 +0000

3 – front door key, car key and garage remote. We do own another house which is rented, the key for that is kept in our house. So simple.

By: A Minimalist Keychain – How Many Keys are on your Keychain?

A Minimalist Keychain – How Many Keys are on your Keychain? — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:03:31 +0000

[...] Francine Jay at Miss Minimalist runs a neat little weekly segment called “A year ago on miss minimalist.” I love the idea of recapping some old but good posts. It’s great for me too, because I wasn’t following her blog last year, and now I get a peek at all the gems that I may have missed. This week’s recap included a post about keys on your keychain. [...]

By: Marci

Marci — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:42:07 +0000

1 car key (does the electronic fob to lock and unlock the doors count as a key?)
1 office desk key
1 office computer key
1 office computer docking station key
4 house keys (none of our doors have the exact same lock – need to fix this)
1 home file drawer key

I am not including the keys that I don’t carry – my husbands car, the motorhome keys (3), my mom’s house and car, my elderly neighbors house and car (in case she loses hers).

Wow – this is a wake-up call isn’t it?