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Door keys, car key, spare house keys. I have mini-flashlights on the door and car keys, and a CPP tag on my door keys so if I lose them, anyone finding them can call the number and I'll get them back. That's the theory, anyway. Thankfully I've never needed to find out.
I keep a couple of supermarket trolley (cart) tokens on my car key ring, because in the UK you usually have to put a (returnable) £1 coin into the trolley before you can use it (trolley theft is big in the UK). The tokens are the same size as a £1 and I know I don't have to hunt round for a £1 when I get to the supermarket.
On my leather key fob is a brass Lynton Pixie, which is one of only two things I have that belonged to my mother (the other being her 1940s powder compact). I recall that she found this in the street, in the 1960s. (She thought it was 'lucky'. Good God, her life was miserable.) I know she never went to Lynton, which is in Devon. I've Googled but can't find any folklore about the Lynton Pixie. To me it looks as if, instead of holding its knees, the pixie is a girl grabbing her boobs.
The two on the left are for my front door. The one on the right is for a door somewhere, I do not know which one, but I keep it just in case. The funny square one is for the 'ignition' on a chapel organ (which keyhole has since been replaced with a simple and more reliable switch, but I keep the key for nostalgia's sake).
No pic, but I just wanted to say that I am still totally squee-ing about my secret quonsar gift, which was a multitool key for my key ring. My key ring is about a hundred times more spiffy now.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
