Check on a coat hook under the coats. I lost mine while vacationing at my mothers one summer. The kids were staying there, hubby and I had arranged a long weekend alone without work. I know NOW that in my effort to get everything cleaned up before I left I must have put them on the hook under my jacket so I'd have everything handy when I left. But since it was so warm I forgot that I'd even brought my jacket.

I not only ended up having to stay the whole weekend, but missed a day of work because not only did the keys have the door opener on it, my van was equiped with a security device that would not allow any NEW keys to start it up without being professionally programed. Since I did not have the original key (and WHO would call the locksmith for emergency road side assistance btw if they HAD the original keys?!?) this was quite a tedious process.

They were found the following fall when my mother took all the coats and jackets out to be cleaned.