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.
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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.
I actually asked because I was more of thinking about storing journals, but didn't feel like elaborating in the post because nobody ever reads the body of a post anyways lol
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Single person, living alone in a 1 bedroom apartment. Even I have a small fire safe.
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.
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.
Banks have made it really difficult to rent safety deposit boxes lately. It used to be a common account benefit but I can't find any within a reasonable distance of me since 2023, and none which are included as an account benefit. A fireproof safe is good enough and the types of documents I put in it aren't truly irreplaceable anyways, just really hard/annoying to replace. I doubt many people use their fireproof safe for truly valuable items that would be attractive to thieves. My fireproof safe doesn't even have a proper lock.
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.
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
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.
If they're competent enough to find me and crack my safe they can find better things to rob than my $300 10-22
Turn off your VPN and ill tell ya your general location
IP geo location is broken as fuck. In my case "general location" is a completely different state.
Open your blinds and ill tell you your hair color!
Oh I can see you in... new york!
Everyone should have a cheap fire safe. For the documents that are super difficult to replace, if nothing else.
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