Comments on: I Am Afraid of Keychain Clutterers

By: Belinda

Belinda — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:19:57 +0000

I was oblivious to this phenomenon. Alex and I both have our keys on the same thing: a ring. About the size of a quarter, the ring is. The only non-key item we have on our rings is the remote door-lock thing for our respective vehicles, which is small.

Dang. Now I’m totally going to be staring at people’s keychains at the grocery store.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:16:05 +0000

I had a teacher who had a keychain that was bigger than a beachball.

I am so not making this up. I didn’t even know they MADE loops of metal that big.

By: belle

belle — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:02:44 +0000

i fell into the ‘jailkeeper ring’ fad a few years ago – a huge ring to carry a few keys and an unlimited number of charms and bangles. essentially, a yuppie clutter method. fortunately, that season passed, and i am back to five necessary keys on one ring, with one identifying charm. freedom…

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:31:54 +0000

It seems like every store with a “Rewards card” program gives you a teeny plastic card bearing the store’s name and a barcode to put on your keychain. I always throw them away, but my Dad must have half a dozen mixed in with his keys.

By: Jennifer Lankenau

Jennifer Lankenau — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:42:10 +0000

Hey, I just have a carabiner on mine, and that’s just to clip it to my backpack when i go hiking.

By: meme

meme — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:27:42 +0000

ever since i made copies of the keys to your house/car/office my keychain has been weighing me down something bad

By: Glen

Glen — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:02:05 +0000

What about the sheer applications of such a useful ball of metal? Not only does it double as a life saving weapon, but it opens your car, your work office, your home, that lockbox under the sink, your friend’s houses, that cabinet with all the dvds, a secret usb flash drive, all the doors in your house, and a nuclear reactor that only one other key matches to turn on the explosive powers of the atom.

Oh wait, that’s a bad thing. I hate the jingle, too. It’s like having 25 pennies in your pocket.

By: better safe than sorry

better safe than sorry — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:14:08 +0000

maybe we should all just be microchipped and eliminate the need for all those keys.

By: dgm

dgm — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:56:49 +0000

swiss army knife carrier here, loud and proud. i can clip spare threads off of clothes, open bottles of beer or wine, punch a new hole in a too-big belt, trim and file my fingernails, and slice open my thumb to get the splinter out. and what can you do? open a door.

tha’s what i’m talkin’ about.

By: Hope

Hope — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:46:51 +0000

My mother made me put a “rape whistle” on my key chain when I went to college. I still have it on there, although I forget it’s there. It’s saved me many times… Just kidding, but it would be kind of cool if it had.