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[quote=Anonymous]We have a large heavy gun safe in the basement that stores some photos and family scrapbooks & mementos (photos are also mostly in cloud). It's fireproof to an extent.

Upstairs we have a smaller safe in a closet by the front door, also "fireproof" for a limited time. We keep $10,000 cash, jewelry and all passports/birth certificates/titles/wills/etc. It's all easy to grab if we are running out the door in case of fire.

Our small town has virtually no crime, so we are not worried about robbery at all. The majority around here own hunting rifles, shotguns and handguns, so only a fool walks onto someone's property with intent to break in and steal.

What we did do is make a copy of important papers, seal them in a large envelope and gave them to a nearby family member that we trust (she is also our executor should DH & I did at the same time). This way, if the important documents were destroyed or lost, it will be easier to replace them if we have access to a copy.

DH scans and puts everything in the cloud, but he may have skipped this for sensitive documents.

Another tip - DH also created a step by step list of everything I need to know and do should he die unexpectedly. We have an online password safe and cloud, so this has all the instructions for getting into them and recreating access, should our computers and cell phones be destroyed.

You can do these things without buying a safe, which will at least help you reconstruct your legal life in the event of a fire.

You can also buy a small "fireproof" safe that can be hidden in a closet, even inside a box labeled "baby clothes", so it wouldn't look obvious to a thief looking to grab and go.[/quote]

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