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Uh oh, I'm a guilty dude. Car door. Car ignition (guess who isn't driving a new car). House door. House deadbolt. Parents house. Parents house deadbolt. Studio door. Studio deadbolt. Opeth bottle-opener. Metal guitar pick from Main Street Pizza circa 2002. Kroger card. Decade rosary. Vitamin World card. Random blue keychain that came with the house keys.

I try to keep it simple, but that's not always possible. Right now I have a carabiner with the car key/remote, bottle opener keyring, pet store card, gate access fob to my complex, house key, work desk keys, bike lock key, and two keys to rooms in my advisor's office area. I could probably keep some of that in my office, but it's easier to keep track of it all if it stays together.

It was worse when I was still at my last university: I had the car key, two apartment keys, and bike lock key, but also something on the order of 17 different keys for the access I needed to work on my thesis research.

I too still have my original MSU keychain with the fight song on it. Although tShadows and tFight Song is worn off. Good thing I know the words!

Every guy she is banging has given her a key to their house

Isn't it obvious? A very long time ago, some fashionable women somewhere in the world decided that she wanted to have a bunch of keys for some reason. A somewhat less fashionable woman saw her and copied her, eventually it spread to a TV show, and now women need to have a gigantic bundle of keys because everyone else does it, and if they're different at all their friends will talk about them behind their backs. Duh.

I have 2 keys - a car key I keep in the ignition so I don't lose it and a key to the office, which I keep in the car so I always know where it is. I'm sure someone gave me house key when I bought the place, but I lost it. Probably should've kept that in the car.

I would do this under normal circumstances, but I have ADHD of epic proportions. I wouldn't use the overused adjective "epic" to describe my too frequently self-diagnosed "ADHD" if I didn't mean it. People can back me up in that.

Point being simply that I would find myself locked out of a lot of things.

Well, 99.9% of the time it's either parked in my garage 5 miles away from any city or it's at work parked literally 2 feet in front of my shop in the middle of a golf course. Neither place is exactly a high crime area, unless the horses living next door really want a old SUV. I have to keep an eye for those sneaky bastards.

I was recently told that I have a lot, but I don't really -- there's actually only 5 key-like things on there: house, storm door, car, car remote, and work key fob. But then I have a keychain that came with my car keys (Ford logo), MSUFCU football keychain, a little flashlight, my Planet Fitness card, and then the little keychain football schedules from the last two years. All on a carabiner I got from UAB at some point. I could probably clean it up...but where's the fun in that?

I think this is the biggest factor. Men generally keep their keys in their pocket, so we have an incentive to keep it less bulky, women have purses they keep their whole life in, they could have a 100 keys in there and still have room for more; not as much motivation for them to remove old, or rarely used keys from the daily set.

I have 1 house key, 1 car key, 2 mini keys for metal lock boxes in my Jeep, 1 bike lock key (around my spare on the back), and my gym membership keycard. Everything else is used seldom enough, or not needed in case of on road emergency that I just keep them in a drawer at home.

Wife and I both have these for our house in Haiphong. (Sorry, the other keys on the loop have worn it away over the years.)