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.
I just moved into a place with a (gun?) safe I don’t know how to open. So technically I have one.
Is it an old fashioned one with a number wheel? Try 0-25-0 or 25-50-25. I learned that one from Richard Feynman.
Nope, digital, and it beeps a lot if you mess with it.
Maybe search the lock picking lawyer’s channel on youtube for the make and model.
The previous owner of our house had one, but luckily they took it with them
Bruh you gotta update. Lemmy now deserve to know, you owe us the update. Open it lol. Don’t leave us hanging on a cliffhanger
I doubt there’s anything interesting. We did wonder whether the “numbers” were related. It’s certainly got character!
I’ve got my important data encrypted and backed up weekly to the cloud.
I used to have a 1985 sailboat where some previous owner had installed a safe. I guess cash was more important when cruising abroad 30+ years ago.
I have a caravan now. The caravan door is flimsy enough to tear open with your bare hands. I’d like to put something bolted to a cupboard wall just to lock up our electronic devices while we’re out and about.
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).
Papers, please.
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.
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.
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? 👀)
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
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.
At least it was safe
Badumching
^rimshot
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.
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?
Inside the cinder block of course
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.
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
But it always happens to be the book a new guest wants to check out…
Nice try, Danny Ocean.
I’ve considered a safe, but I’ve heard the paper contents may mold if left in there too long. Currently too lazy to manage that.
You need some dessicant, they make packages of it specifically for managing humidity in safes. It’s real low maintenance.
Single person, living alone in a 1 bedroom apartment. Even I have a small fire safe.
We have a free online storage that was founded by the notaries in my country. I think nearly all important legal documents have a copy that is kept by the government.
I do not have a document safe. We keep all those documents in a cigar box.
Are your cigars in the safe?
They’re in the humidor. And by “humidor” I mean “Ziploc bag”. And by “Ziplock” I mean “Aldi knock-off zipper-seal”.
The home safe is more about fire survival.
Gun safe. Water proof, fire proof and locked. 200 lbs won’t be walking out so easily.
200 lbs won’t be walking out so easily
Unless it’s bolted to something solid a 90kg safe could be walked out pretty easily by two people or one person with a trolley.
Yup bolted down.
So ill bring my bolt cutters and portable torch
I have a 7.62x51 belt ammo box that I use for important documents. It’s easy to find, relatively disaster tolerant, and it has a carry handle.
For a large part of my life, I have always fantasized about owning anything so important, valuable, or secret that I had to store it in some sort of vault
Currently, I do not
Don’t give up. Somewhere in the future there is a vault for you too.
you should buy jewelry. You never wear it, then when you get older, someone will kill you for it. That’s the point of jewelry.
Yeah, but I like being alive
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.
