Because a former subletter to my old apartment was stupid and duplicated too many of the apartment keys, I was left with extra ones. I didn't want to throw them in the trash and risk some homeless people finding them.
(My apartment had a lovely view of the dumpster--homeless people and other types often scavanged through the trash to find stuff--I have to admit, people threw out lots of good things!)
However, I do not know what to do with these old keys. I've moved away from that apartment, but it seems like such a shame to throw them away. Suggestions?
2007-08-20 15:05:06 · 12 answers · asked by Bookworm 6 in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
What I have been told is if you give them to a locksmith, they get "credit" for sending them back to the manufacturer (who melts the metal down again.)
Otherwise, the other creative uses that have been suggested sound fun - I like the idea of wind chimes, but you'd need more than just two or three keys!
2007-08-21 08:39:39 · answer #1 · answered by tigglys 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
try giving them to a grocery corner store, perhaps in an area where people don't know where you live. Places that make new keys cut old ones into another shape and may use yours
good luck
2007-08-20 15:24:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The time you have spent thinking about what to do with them far outweighs the 10 cents worth of metal in them. Toss them in the trash.
2007-08-20 15:31:50 · answer #3 · answered by scott h 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unless the keys were marked with an address there would be no way of connecting them with a particular apartment if someone found them. They are small but if you are recycling any scrap metal include them with it.
2007-08-20 15:14:52 · answer #4 · answered by Robert A 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I had a bunch of old keys to locks that didn't exist anymore so I made a wind chime out of some of them. It was fun and actually didn't sound to bad.
2007-08-20 19:12:43 · answer #5 · answered by LJ 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i haven't thrown keys out because you never know which one may accidentally help you open some other lock------i have around 20 of whose origin i don't know
2016-05-18 05:37:44 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make them into a necklace and become a latch key kid?
2007-08-20 15:12:33 · answer #7 · answered by confused 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you are stressed from work take the key and bend it to get stress off of your shoulder
2007-08-20 15:35:13 · answer #8 · answered by pdc5200 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
give them to a bonded locksmith to dispose of
2007-08-20 15:13:48 · answer #9 · answered by Charles s 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
give them to a locksmith.
2007-08-24 03:49:37 · answer #10 · answered by sophieb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋