What should I do with hundreds (not really 100) of old
keys I find around the house that I don't know what they
belong to? There are big keys, small keys, strange looking
one?
Can I recycle them?
Plant them?
Make a .....?
2006-10-16 10:03:09 · 10 answers · asked by Holly 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
You could check your local phone book for a metal salvage/recycling business that might take them off your hands.
Or you could get artistic with them. You could make a wall display of them ... arrange them in an interesting pattern on an attractive background, glue them down and frame them.
Take up welding and make them into a metal sculpture.
Make some of the most attractive, interesting ones into jewelry. Use as pendants for necklaces. Or assemble other odds and ends (foreign coins, pretty buttons, small feathers, broken jewelry pieces, odd earrings, etc.) with the key, hot glue them together, put a pin on the back, and you'll have a unique broach to wear. I've done that, and even sold a few ... one for as much as $95!! (A lady bought it right off my coat!)
I wish I lived close to you, I'd take them all off your hands! (And give you back a pretty pin!)
2006-10-16 10:16:50 · answer #1 · answered by baeb47 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try making a wind chime. But if you put it in the front of your house it may sound like somebodies coming up to your door with their key's.
2006-10-16 17:10:53 · answer #2 · answered by Kander 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can donate them to a school or daycare where they can use them for MANY things such as counting, learning about keys, arts and crafts such as windchimes. i would reccomend donating them to a school, i'm a teacher and would love to recieve something like that! plus it would save the school some money and we all know how much education keeps getting cut from the governement! There are a million things teachers could use them for trust me my mind is already racing!! :) GOOD LUCK!!
2006-10-16 17:13:03 · answer #3 · answered by star_angel_1713 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you should make a decorative key collage to hang in your home. It would be a great conversation piece. You could simply glue them onto a board of some kind and.....art!!!
2006-10-16 17:11:08 · answer #4 · answered by Tallulah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't throw them out! they will be of value to someone!
collector's will love to look through them.
you could sell them at the scrapyard.
if nothing else give them to one of the charity's that send their truck around to pick up household items. they in turn will sell them and use the money for their cause!
you could use them in crafts......
if you are the least bit crafty you could make "santa's magic key" He needs the key to get into homes that don't have fireplaces! these sell well at craft fairs. take a look on 'ebay' at what is there, then make up your own for kids in your family and friends kids who don't have fireplaces and often wonder
"how does santa get in" you could sell them at local craft fairs as well!
have fun with it!
2006-10-16 19:05:44 · answer #5 · answered by tess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have some old ones you can take them yo an antique dealer. i did and the paid for some of them the rest i took and recycled them well at a junk yard the y just took them for free.
2006-10-16 21:15:41 · answer #6 · answered by Kurtis K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Throw them in the recycle bin. Same as scrap metal.
2006-10-16 17:18:59 · answer #7 · answered by bugear001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not an expert, but I believe some really old keys could be valuable to collectors...check into that faction..might be surprised..good luck..
2006-10-16 17:10:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why don't you start key collection as a hobby, if not just throw them, if you do not want to throw them burry them in the back yard
2006-10-16 17:11:23 · answer #9 · answered by Jinha 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
save forever!
your kids will find them & say disparaging things about you!
2006-10-16 19:51:57 · answer #10 · answered by Bonno 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋