Where Oh Where Have My Lovely Keys Gone?*Update*

Posted on Sep 15 in Family Lifeby TrishPrint

Oh where, oh where could they be?
I’ve searched all my couches, the rooms, and my bags,
Oh where, oh where could they be?

Yes, that is right.  My keys have decided to disappear on me.  I had them Friday when I went to check the mail.  Then I came inside, and haven’t seen them since.  My husband and I have searched everywhere, and we can’t find them anywhere.

I finally decided that they were gone for good, and I’d just have to get a new mail key.  All I had on my keyring was our mail key, and our house key (and my Smith’s card and my Hancock Fabrics card).  We have a spare house key, and the cards can easily be replaced.  It’s the mail key that bothered me.  So I decided to call the post office to see how I would go about getting a new one.  Our neighbors have had to get a new one and they said it was $15.  OK, not too bad.

I called the post office this morning and found out the fee had been raised recently.  From $15 to $40!  Holy cow!  That’s quite the raise.  The lady at the post office said it was because we had to pay the $20/hour salary for the guy to come out and change the lock, and the price of the metal has increased.  I’m sorry, but that is ridiculous.  I told her never mind and I’d just keep looking.  They’ve got to be around here somewhere, right?  Now if only I could figure out where.

*UPDATE*
I found them. Finally. Where? On the shelf they were supposed to be. I have a little shelf right by the front door that has some hooks where we hang our keys. Occasionally these keys get set on top of the shelf, and that is exactly where they were. Some things of my husband’s had fallen on top of them so we couldn’t see them. It is such a relief that they were found!

Popularity: 1% [?]

5 Comments

• Tiffany says:

  September 16, 2009 at 3:58 pm

  So glad you found them. I find that I always find stuff when I stop looking for it

  Reply
• Jamie says:

  September 15, 2009 at 6:00 pm

  aren’t you glad you found them before you paid the $40 to have them replaced! i loose my keys all the time! someone should make an alarm for those darn things!

  Reply
• Stefanie says:

  September 15, 2009 at 12:31 pm

  Oh I’m so happy you found them. I’ve done that a million times but it’s usually because one of the kids had been playing with them. Glad you didn’t buy a new key for the mail…saved yourself 40 big ones!

  Reply
• LISA says:

  September 15, 2009 at 10:07 am

  Trisha if there is a chance your little one got a hold of them check in areas she plays , any little area she usually sticks things. We lost our keys once for a few weeks and here my girl had put them in a little cupboard on her play kitchen! Hope you find them soon, there is nothing more then losing your keys. It drives you mad looking for them!

  Reply
  • admin says:

    September 15, 2009 at 10:12 am

    Yeah, I glanced through all of her toys, but I’m going to have to do a super thorough search now.

    Reply

Trackbacks / Pingbacks