My family’s legal documents are being kept somewhere at home, and its kinda weird to think about, like zero security, I doubt its even fireproof, definitely not waterproof, some flood is gonna destroy it.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    23 days ago

    Well, I do I have tucked into a random bookshelf one of those “World Atlas” book safes that everyone already knows is a storage box and not a book, because they’ve been sold virtually unchanged as far as I can tell since at least the early 1990s. As a little treat to anyone observant who notices this and thinks they’re so damn clever, inside I have nothing but a scaled down 3D printed replica of a cinder block.

    It is astoundingly unlikely anyone will find where my valuables are actually hidden in my house, nor am I going to admit it on the internet.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      5·
      22 days ago

      It is astoundingly unlikely anyone will find where my valuables are actually hidden in my house, nor am I going to admit it on the internet.

      In the mattress, huh?

    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      22 days ago

      I always wanted a hollowed out book as a child. So I took a steak knife and a random book I figured was big enough, and started painstakingly carving out the center. I still have it somewhere, it’s kinda cool, but now I really would rather have a bookshelf hidden door, or maybe behind a painting, hiding a secret lair.

      • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        22 days ago

        I’m picturing you having a huge wall of books. One of the books has money in it, but you’re forced to search each one everytime you want the money because you keep forgetting which book it is

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    23 days ago

    I have a home safe that doesn’t lock properly. To replace it would cost me everything that I’d put in a home safe.

  • gigachad@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    23 days ago

    Most of my legal documents can be reproduced easily or they are in a folder I can take with me. Apart from that I don’t own anything of value.

  • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    22 days ago

    My mom bought me a fireproof safe because she was giving me some jewelry to hold for my kids, and she also had some documents for me to keep.

    It sat on the floor under a bed for years. Then I decided to get appraisals of the jewelry to add it to my homeowners insurance.

    When I opened the safe, everything in it was moist and moldy.

    Nothing important was lost or damaged, but it was nasty as hell.

  • Seefra 1@lemmy.zip
    6·
    22 days ago

    I’m not a very legal person, but I can’t think of any documents that I can’t just request a copy.

    If my apartment were to burn down I would have bigger problems to worry about, like homelessness and losing all my tech that took me years to aquire.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      22 days ago

      Sure. But it might be easier if you had a birth certificate or your insurance documents at the bank. It’s just one less hassle to prove who you are to have someone make you a new copy.

      Arguably this is less of an issue with digital documents.

      • Getitupinyerstuffin'@lemmy.world
        1·
        20 days ago

        Not true! Especially about this subject. Until I read this, I saw your asain letters in your name and im sorry, but that immediately increased my suspicion that you were a scammer or something! I thought you could probably track our IP addresses -and find where we live and try to get our safe type so you could learn how to break in that specific safe.- if we didn’t have a VPN. Ive known people that could do that stuff… anyway, im not racist or anything, but knowing this is a bout journeling humanizes you more.

        Edit: I wouldnt tell you shit and I think that anyone that does is a complete idiot

        • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.worksOP
          4·
          20 days ago

          LOL

          It’s from an Anime 😭 (Steins;Gate, characters are Kanji)

          I guess it also kinda works as a Sinophobia-filter. Not to point fingers, but even amonst many of the western “liberal”/“leftists”, I feel like subconcious bias is still a thing. So I’m just intentionally trying to de-sensitize people to the idea of Asia. I get it, a lot of scammers, but I mean… I do not judge every Indian for a few dipshits that do scam. Neither should people be judging based on my username lol. But I get it, everyone has these implicit biases.

          I’m Chinese-American in case you’re wondering, kinda feeling underrepresented in the fediverse, which seems to be westerner-dominated. Which is why I feel like I wanna be here, to sort of “fix” the underrepresentation issue.

  • insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world
    6·
    22 days ago

    Important documents and hard drives with photos are in a fire- and water-proof safe. It’s also just easier to find them since we never move it anywhere so passports and certs are all in there.

  • Boneses@lemmy.zip
    4·
    22 days ago

    I have all my important documents in a fire rated safe mostly because whenever I need to get one of them I remember “oh yeah I put that in my safe”. I don’t own anything valuable that could fit in the safe. As someone who works on safes though I would recommend anyone who wants one for burglary protection to bolt it down if possible and don’t show anyone you have it. I’ve seen the aftermath people’s 200+ pound safes dragged through the house and out the door. Also if you own guns and have kids I would absolutely recommend a safe to put them in. Check your local laws as well because here in California starting in 2026 gun owners can be charged if they don’t have their guns locked securely and someone in their household who should not have access to guns gets access to their guns.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    22 days ago

    I don’t use either, I have a small plastic folder for kinda important documents but tbh I can’t really think of any documents I would actually need that are not fairly easy to get replaced.

  • lagomorphlecture@lemmy.world
    4·
    21 days ago

    My sister inherited my dad’s big fireproof gun safes and things like birth certificates are in there (at this point maybe they should be on our person).

      • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.worksOP
        1·
        20 days ago

        Yea… I feel like this isn’t just one country, as technology gets more developed, every government now wants to use more biometrics, face scanning, fingerprinting, mandatory ID. Eventually, we might DNA checkpoints to verify people.

        • Getitupinyerstuffin'@lemmy.world
          2·
          20 days ago

          And eventually everyone will be identified by a chip in their hand or or picture of your face. Sounds too much like the mark of the beast. Right? Thousands of years old prophecy. Not gonna do it. I dont want to do it least.

          • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.worksOP
            1·
            20 days ago

            I don’t think they’ll give you an option to opt out.

            In China, for example, you need ID for even for just a domestic train ticket. Random checkpoints are common, especially after Covid. I heard from my aunt that they do QR code contact tracing, but there are also (western) reports of dissidents randomly had their QR code “turn red” which prevented then from travelling.

            Eventually, western countries will do the same.

            We’re cooked.

            Unless? 🤔 (France 1789? 👀)

            • Getitupinyerstuffin'@lemmy.world
              2·
              20 days ago

              That is scary stuff to me. Losing most freedoms. And I hope to go to heaven when im done here. I dont necessarily want to go around again. Especially if its sn authoritarian hellscape, nuclear war and whatever

              Edit: I have a theory that maybe people reincarnate if they dont go to heaven after they die, for whatever reason. Maybe, Like, they didn’t believe in Jesus, or they werent willing to sacrifice themselves for something greater than themselves. The importance of being able to die for something that is greater than self is the last and greatest lesson Jesus ever taught.

              And probably yes to the France thing

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    41·
    22 days ago

    For guns, I picked up a decent one from a government surplus auction. The keypad had a couple numbers that didn’t work and someone cut out the battery holder. But 10 bucks fixed both of those. So I got a $500 safe for about $45.

    Less about burglars or fires and more about curious young hands.

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      I live alone but I have a gun safe because in my state if I get robbed and can’t demonstrate that I did my due dilligence to protect the guns from theives I could end up getting arrested

      • Getitupinyerstuffin'@lemmy.world
        11·
        20 days ago

        Dont actually talk about this stuff man. Its not the nerds that care where your important stuff is, or that you are in possession of it, but they are selling that information to someone that might do something. Actual thugs. The guy who brag posted -in this thread- about a big heavy safe… so dumb, thats exactly what they want to hear. There are literal safe cracking gangs. Its only TV but have you seen sons of anarchy? There are these people out there. So many bored degenerates that also have a lot of money, somehow.

        Its great to have a safe, just dont volunteer the info to strangers on the internet maybe. This is the voice of reason.