Best bang for buck digital safe fireproof?

[Humpy]

It's a piece of plastic...

I've made a few calls and can confirm this is true.

 

[zinfamous]

SSN card...at least in US you can easily obtain another. How could a blood test prove your identity? The government has no record of that unless you've been incarcerated or something.

Birth Certificate is held by the county clerk...I simply walked in and produced my driver's license and had a copy within 5 minutes.

The passport is the most painful since you have to do it in person and there's always a line.

I believe that the SSA stopped issuing cards, which makes sense. Stupidly awful security risk.

As for me, I bury my important documents in a hole in the backyard.

 

[NutBucket]

Since when? Or do you mean replacement cards? I have one for my daughter who was born in 2014. They gotta get the number to you somehow!

 

[lxskllr]

Unless you're suggesting a cheap fire resistant safe be placed inside a pallet of bricks, this will be a bad idea unless maybe it's several pallets of bricks. You'd essentially be building a stone oven. it would insulate it for a little while, but once it heated up, it would stay hot for a while. even putting a safe inside a pallet of bricks wouldn't be good if it were somehow in a very big fire.

It should work. A stone oven's exactly what it is, but the heat would be outside. Use a sufficient air gap for insulation, and it should keep any residential fire at bay. Just thinking quick, I'd use flue tile(pipe?) as the 'safe', then surround it with brick, then surround that brick with more brick, with air gaps between every layer.

 

[zinfamous]

Since when? Or do you mean replacement cards? I have one for my daughter who was born in 2014. They gotta get the number to you somehow!

It might just be the replacement cards. I received some letter mentioning this, not too long ago. ...I haven't had an SS card in something like, 20 years? Don't know why anyone needs one. Of course, I lost it. No idea where it is. Not screwed yet!

 

[Red Squirrel]

I would imagine there would be quite the process involved to getting a replacement, as it's kinda a big security issue if you just start handing this stuff out to random people. Same with birth certificate etc. Not even sure where you'd start, really. They need to know that you're really the person you say you are and if you have no ID...

 

[lxskllr]

It might just be the replacement cards. I received some letter mentioning this, not too long ago. ...I haven't had an SS card in something like, 20 years? Don't know why anyone needs one. Of course, I lost it. No idea where it is. Not screwed yet!

My daughter said she *needed* her ss card. She may have been mistaken. I was asking asking from a distance, and I couldn't examine the request, but it sounded like bullshit to me. Unless they've changed in recent years, they're trivial to forge. What matters is the number. I have no idea why anyone would need the physical card :shrugs:

 

[Red Squirrel]

Actually come to think of it, most things that ask for it do only really need the number. So it probably does not hurt to write the number down somewhere safe. If you lose the actual card but have the number it's probably less of a big deal to get a new card.

 

[kennyreid95]

I went to the wells fargo bank on Wednesday. I bought a 5x5 safe deposit box for $80 a month, is that reasonable price or did I get ripped off? I'm assuming this safe deposit box is super fireproof the blu ray discs barely fit in there though but I was able to close the hatch.

 

[highland145]

5'x5'? You dun good.

 

[sdifox]

5'x5'? You dun good.

I think he means inches.

 

[highland145]

I think he means inches.

I was giving him the benefit of the doubt....$80/mo...

 

[Humpy]

I went to the wells fargo bank on Wednesday. I bought a 5x5 safe deposit box for $80 a month, is that reasonable price or did I get ripped off? I'm assuming this safe deposit box is super fireproof the blu ray discs barely fit in there though but I was able to close the hatch.

LOL $1,000 a year just to keep your Mork and Mindy box set from melting?

Baller.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That seems kinda expensive. I think I was paying that for like 6 months for my PO box when I decided to get one for this same reason, and it also doubled as a secondary address for things that require an address where I don't want to put my real one. Downside is they did not have auto pay and I was scared I would forget to pay for it and lose whatever is in it, so I just got rid of it. It could hold a couple external hard drives.

 

[kennyreid95]

LOL $1,000 a year just to keep your Mork and Mindy box set from melting?

Baller.

FYI my backup blu Ray discs dont just contain movie files. On my blu ray discs They contain program files exe, pictures, music. I also backup files from my micro sd card to the blu ray discs.

 

[kennyreid95]

Perhaps buying safe deposit box was not best idea. It is pretty expensive. I wish I could just spend No more than $500 for a very durable fireproof safe to store my blu Ray discs & other important items.

 

[sdifox]

FYI my backup blu Ray discs dont just contain movie files. On my blu ray discs They contain program files exe, pictures, music. I also backup files from my micro sd card to the blu ray discs.

Why not backblaze? Encrypt first before you put it in the backup target directory

 

[NutBucket]

Yeah, that doesn't really exist.

 

[highland145]

Perhaps buying safe deposit box was not best idea. It is pretty expensive. I wish I could just spend No more than $500 for a very durable fireproof safe to store my blu Ray discs & other important items.

Wishes and 12" dicks

You'd better stay with the 5'x5' for $80/mo.

 

[kennyreid95]

Wishes and 12" dicks

You'd better stay with the 5'x5' for $80/mo.

You have a Good sense of humor I like that ok I'll stick with 5x5 for $80.