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Sometimes it can be hard knowing just what you should and shouldn’t store in a safe. While you can, of course, store whatever you want in your safe provided it’s of value to you, you should make sure the following 7 items are securely stored in there before filling it with other things:

1. Important documents – documents that contain personal information such as birth certificates, passports, wills, social security cards, bank statements and drivers’ licenses, are best kept in a safe, otherwise you could become the victim of identity theft should a stranger gets their hands on them.
2. Guns and ammunition – while you might think this to be obvious, you might be surprised at just how many people don’t secure their weapons in a gun safe.
3. Backup hard drives – while not everyone will have a backup hard drive to protect their data if their computer develops a problem, many folks still do, and it’s important to keep it stashed away where it can’t be stolen or misused.
4. Jewelry – Burglars have always targeted jewelry when breaking into people’s homes to steal things, and if you’ve got any expensive or sentimental items that you want to protect, storing them in a safe is the best way to do so.
5. Medication – many homes throughout the US have medical cabinets in which they keep their medication and other important items of medical value, and even though most are out of the reach of small children, young adults can still help themselves to it and burglars can reach right in and take whatever they choose. With a growing number of burglary cases centering around the theft of high-end prescription drugs such as Oxycontin and Ritalin, keeping that which you don’t need to access on a regular basis, should ideally be kept under lock and key in a safe.
6. Cash – large sums of cash should never be left sitting around in any home, no matter how well hidden it might be, and if you don’t want to keep it in a bank account for any reason, you must ensure that it’s protected in a high security safe.
7. Power tools – you might not automatically think of keeping your power tools locked away in a safe, but so many home burglaries involve the theft of such items, and with some of them costing a lot of money, it’s easy to see why. Easy to grab and easy for a burglar to make a quick buck on, power tools should be kept inside a residential safe.

To find out more about residential safes and how best to keep important items in your home protected from theft or misuse, call in to your local residential safe suppliers, or reach out to them online.