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Where do you keep important items in your house?

DougK62

DougK62

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A friend of mine living across the country recently had his apartment broken in to, and it has me evaluating how I keep important things in my house.

Passport, SS card, a couple thousand in cash, small trinket heirlooms, and a hard drive - this is my important stuff. Right now I just have it all in a small fireproof safe that a thief would easily find and would have no problem breaking open. I want to protect from both a burglary and a house fire.

How do you protect these items in your house?
 
One HD isn't enough, thieves or no. Safe deposit box is a good idea, although I haven't done it yet. I have access to free SDB, so I should.

If you have your stuff in an obvious place, that's not too smart. At the very least hide it. That safe could be hidden, probably, I don't know your house. Or you can keep your stuff hidden, not in a safe, i.e. your cash might be safer hidden than in a FP safe in open view, depends on how prone you are to burning your house down.
 
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My wife and I are buying a gun safe in the next week or so.

We have one of those small fireproof saves that is maybe 12 inches X 12 inches square. But its time to upgrade.
 
Big gun safe. Original birth certificate and important crucial documents in safe deposit box. Passport/cash is in gun safe, passport card in deposit box. Copies of everything in both. I wanted to make it so no matter what, if one of them completely disappeared I could replace them or get originals without any legal hassle.
 
"...So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. And then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."
 
Gun in nightstand (no kids in the house), guns not it use in safe in garage.
Backup computer stuff on 64 GB thumbdrive.
Computer sits out loose.
Passport also in sage. SS in bank deposit box. As is original DD214 and similar papers.
 
In a fire-safe in my basement bolted to the concrete floor. I keep a chambered pistol inside the safe so if someone ever tries to force me to open it I can just grab it and shoot them.
 
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I have a small, portable fireproof safe that I put in the crawlspace under the house. Ain't no theef ever gon be look down thar.
 
I ordered a small fire-proof safe for these things a little over a month ago...said safe was stolen from outside my front door after UPS delivery.
 
etrigan420 said:
"...So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. And then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."
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LOL. I was thinking about the guy with the .36 in his rectum.

homercles337 said:
I ordered a small fire-proof safe for these things a little over a month ago...said safe was stolen from outside my front door after UPS delivery.
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Sorry but...LOL.....
 
My cats are usually on my bed. Sometimes they're at the food bowl, or looking out the window, but mostly on the bed.
 
A SDB would be great, but I'd rather not spend the money. The problem that I'm having is that I live in a tiny house without a basement - no room to do a decent hiding job, even with my small fire-proof safe.
 
DougK62 said:
A SDB would be great, but I'd rather not spend the money. The problem that I'm having is that I live in a tiny house without a basement - no room to do a decent hiding job, even with my small fire-proof safe.
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Use the dead space in your house. It easy if you own the place (since you don't have to ask permission from a LL).

Here is a book I read part of (the free sample on Amazon).

Googling shows it free in a few sites, but I've never heard of them and don't know if they're legal DLs.

http://www.amazon.com/How-To-Hide-Anything-ebook/dp/B002ZNK4UQ
 
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Any small safe isn't going to be cracked on location, theives will just pick it up and take it with.

As for where I keep my important documents... I'm not telling :ninja:
 
Safes don't do shit. I've had friends with huge industrial sized safes bolted down to cement foundation that were somehow ripped out and carried off. Safest place would be a bank with their alarms and quick response from the police.
 
God Mode said:
Safes don't do shit. I've had friends with huge industrial sized safes bolted down to cement foundation that were somehow ripped out and carried off. Safest place would be a bank with their alarms and quick response from the police.
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That is pretty dumb of them as a safe has 2 weak spots by its henges. 2 or 3 hits with a hammer and you got the door off.

OP in a safe. Cement it into the floor and carpet over it. The a cupboard or something. Good luck finding that
 
Panic room / gun room



Real answer is safe deposit box at bank. I make the wife keep only 10k or less of Jewelry in the house at one time.
 
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