Home safe.. yes or no ?

Paul11

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To store things like passports, birth certificates and the like are home safes worth it?

or better to hide them somewhere unlikely to be found

what do you do ?
 
If its fireproof i could see some logic to it but when we bought a fireproof safe in work 15 years ago it was big money for something that was actually fireproof for a useful amount of time for things like paper and media.

For normal home stuff, you're most likely to get someone breaking into your house to steal your car keys and maybe anything else easy, if they for whatever reason know you've got a safe they'll just threaten or beat your kids/wife's/pets/you until you give them the code anyway as they'll assume there's valuables in it as it's pretty uncommon to have a home safe.
 
Paul11 said:
To store things like passports, birth certificates and the like are home safes worth it?

or better to hide them somewhere unlikely to be found

what do you do ?
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How much do replacements cost v safe costs?

I doubt many come in to steal passports or birth certificates.
 
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As others have said, not worth it imo given you're listing the primary reason as protection from unauthorised removal (as opposed to environmental protection like fire).
Documents like that are easy to hide and also relatively easy to replace. I have a somewhat loose door threshold that can be lifted up on the inside that can store things like that.
 
adidan said:
If somebody breaks in and finds anything in this house, let alone anything of value, I'd be surprised.
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If they hold me to ransom for my car keys, I’m not sure I could find them myself half the time. Everything else that’s hidden I’ve probably forgotten where it is. Factor in indoor and outdoor alarms plus cat litter trays to navigate, they’d wish they picked somewhere else.
 
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CaptainRAVE said:
If they hold me to ransom for my car keys, I’m not sure I could find them myself half the time. Everything else that’s hidden I’ve probably forgotten where it is. Factor in indoor and outdoor alarms plus cat litter trays to navigate, they’d wish they picked somewhere else.
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I know, I'm forever trying to find which 'safe' place I've put something important.

Then again I come across things I'm not expecting. Ifound a barely used matx Lian-li case boxed up the other week. Forgot I even had it.
 
I just have one of those cash boxes but that's mostly just to let a safe space from the kids. Easy to grab of there was a fire as well.
 
Begbie said:
I doubt many come in to steal passports or birth certificates.
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There were a spare of home invasion/burglaries in the wider area around here and they were specifically going for passports.

Don't ask me why.

They caught them though, eastern European gang of some form.
 
Surely better just to keep them somewhere secretive.

Mine are just in my top desk drawer
 
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The money is probably better spent on visible exterior deterrence like CCTV and good quality exterior locks than any safe worth the money and hassle. Even then, the cost of a decent enough safe that can't be opened by just turning it upside down (yes, seriously!
) is not insignificant...
 
sovietspybob said:
For normal home stuff, you're most likely to get someone breaking into your house to steal your car keys and maybe anything else easy, if they for whatever reason know you've got a safe they'll just threaten or beat your kids/wife's/pets/you until you give them the code anyway as they'll assume there's valuables in it as it's pretty uncommon to have a home safe.
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So nice place for a claymore :D
 
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