5 Items You’ll Want to Protect in A Safe
Buying a high security, fire resistant safe, whether for your home or office, is always a smart step towards protecting the items you hold dear – or which are of significant monetary value – but knowing what exactly to keep inside one, isn’t always clear.
Here, we’ve listed 5 items most commonly stored in safes, and if you have any of them just sitting around in your home without any additional protection, it would be wise to lock them away in a safe:
- Important documents
From birth certificates and property titles, to insurance policies and wills, all documents of any importance can be stored inside a fire resistant safe, which will protect them in the event of a burglary or fire.
As well as protecting the documents by keeping them inside your safe, it also means that you always know where they are should you need them for any reason.
- Keys
Any keys that you don’t use on a daily basis, such as safe deposit box keys or keys to personal storage units for example, should be stored in a safe. Storing a spare car and house key inside one is a sensible idea, too.
- Valuable jewelry
Even if you wear expensive items of jewelry every day, you should store them inside a fire resistant safe when you take them off, as it’s common knowledge that burglars will happily make off with smaller items such as jewelry, when ransacking people’s homes.
- Emergency cash
Most of us have a stash of emergency cash, gold or silver at home, and while you can argue that it should be in a bank account or safe deposit box at the bank, if you feel you need to have it at home, the least you can do is protect it by keeping it in a safe.
- Guns
These absolutely must be stored inside an appropriate, fire resistant gun safe, and it’s important to keep your ammunition equally as well protected, but not in the same safe as your firearms. Safety is paramount if you have firearms and ammunition in your home, and while you need to be able to access them in an emergency, you wouldn’t want an intruder or family member to be able to get their hands on them without your knowledge.
While there are many other items you can of course store in a safe, the 5 above are arguably the most important, and if you want to invest in a safe, or need help repairing one, reach out to a local safe installer or locksmith.
