Hi everyone! I’m an art student working on a project about keys, and l’d love to hear personal stories behind them🥺 Would anyone be willing to share a key that means something to them, along with the story behind it? ❗️Please avoid posting photo of your actual keys, just in case someone might misuse them.

  • It could be a house key connected to a special memory, something that happened in a particular place, or even a small part of your everyday life.

  • It doesn’t have to be a house key, either. Maybe it belongs to a drawer, or something else entirely. Perhaps there’s a reason you’ve kept it for years, or a memory attached to it that you’ve never really thought about sharing.

Thanks for reading, and thanks to anyone who feels like sharing☺️

  • Z72.53@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    I actually have a collection of keys Ive found on the street while walking around. I have over 300 keys so far. They’re all on a bunch of varying sized key rings all connected together. It’s fascinating to see the different kinds and wonder why the person lost them. Some of them I can remember picking up a lot of them I don’t though.

    • 0094@lemmy.zipOP
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      3 days ago

      That’s so cool!! If I found a key, I’d be unable to stop wondering what happened to someone in that area that left their key lying there all alone🤧 Of the keys you remember finding, was there one that turned up somewhere particularly strange or unusual? Do you have any favourites :DDD I collect keys too, but I just buy old ones that I like the design or purpose of. Your way of collecting them sounds way more fun😸

      • Z72.53@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 days ago

        The vast majority I’ve found just lying by the curb, usually in downtown areas. I’ve also found few during a few different jobs.

        One that I can remember I found on top of a branch of a tree by the sidewalk. It was an unusually long key that I noticed when I stumbled into the tree on my way home drunk from a college party.

        I used to worry a lot about them and the people looking for them, but I’ve tried to report them in the past but the owner never turned up. People worry about losing keys, but the reality is theres way too many locks to ever know what it goes to.

        • 0094@lemmy.zipOP
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          2 days ago

          A key on the tree branch is so mysterious. It would make me wonder if I’d stumbled across some kind of SCP creature, or if I was just way more drunk than I thought I was🤧 Maybe Mr. Crow had found himself a shiny new piece of home decor so it was there :3 just like a star on the top of the Christmas treeee And yeah, that’s so true. When I was little, my family told me they’d lost a key, I’d get so anxious about some stranger suddenly breaking into our home. But then again, who really knows which lock a lost key belongs to :)

          • Z72.53@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            2 days ago

            My assumption was that some other drunk person found it on the ground and thought it would be easier for the owner to find if they came back because the branch was a bit below eye level. I definitely thought it was an odd place to find a key, but I wasn’t too worried. At that point I had found maybe 20 keys that year. Drunk college kids lose them a lot.

            • 0094@lemmy.zipOP
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              2 days ago

              That makes a lot of sense! Hanging it somewhere so visible is actually a pretty good idea. I guess I’ll have to keep an eye on my keys too, even though I don’t drink much. If I ever lose my keys, I’ll come ask you if you’ve found them ;3