Recently, work required me to travel for several weeks away from home. My mistress told me that even while I was out of the house, I had to stay locked up constantly.
I own a Mature Metal Jailbird, though I’d been using a CB6000 for two years prior. For my travels, I used some red plastic numbered locks from keptforher that we typically use on the CB6000. Just minutes before heading to the airport, she unlocked my Jailbird and prepared to pack it in my suitcase. We tested one of those plastic locks first, but it was clear right away that they wouldn’t work well together. The lock was too small for the jailbird, allowing the cage to twist significantly. Uh oh…so what do we do? I couldn’t use the brass padlock because that would cut off my access to the key, and I definitely NEEDED the key available for unlocking during the flight home.
Rushing to find a solution, I had an idea. I drilled a small hole through one of her spare keys and threaded a plastic lock through it. Now the key is effectively useless because inserting it back into the padlock would break the plastic seal. This allows me to carry the key with me while she can request photos sent at random intervals just to confirm that the key remains “sealed” and unusable.
It worked perfectly. It was SO simple, and easy for her to verify via photo that the seal held and I remained locked up.
There are likely many other ways we could have sealed the key, like a sealed envelope, but everything else I considered in my haste would have been too easy to defeat or hard to prove with photos. This method keeps the key visible, and since she applied the seal, she can see in the pictures that the serial number matches her plastic lock and that the key is still unusable.