Safe at Home

relayer

I bought a safe at Office Depot for $200 and bolted it down in the locked closet, so I'm protected from fire (it's a fire safe) and burglary.

HOWEVER I’m a lot more vulnerable.

If someone were to ever break into my house, they wouldn’t be able to open it or take it out of the house.

BUT now a felon knows there is a safe in the house. From then on, any knock on your door could be a guy with a gun telling you to open your safe.

So if your first level of security has been compromised, don't be thankful they didn't get your coins but be concerned about who knows where your valuables are.

itsnotjustme

Is that closet upstairs or downstairs?

Placid

Well if they know there is a safe they still won't know what's in it.

airplanenut

Do what I do... cover the safe... looks like a pile of garbage/junk

jmwarren

if someone knows you have a safe and makes you open it, keep a gun in the safe, loaded and ready to fire so you can blow their a$$ away when you do open it. Thats what I do.

darktone

relayer, if a thief wanted that safe he would have it in a matter of minutes or even seconds! It don't matter if it's welded to an I-beam if they think it's got money inside it's gone! I think a safe has to be too big and heavy for them to carry away. mike

Placid

Safes are good for fire protection, for me I prefer the small fire safes with the handle (about the size of small breifcase) then hide it someplace.

Here is a link to some furniture for hiding things that might give you some ideas but you can figure out your own as well.

Link

If your collection is really worth alot it's best to use a bank.

stujoe

Aren't humidity levels fairly high in a fire safe because they hold moisture in the walls/insulation?

DHeath

Yes. You should use a renewable dessicant.

supercoin

You need to be careful with fire safes. Many of them get their fire resistance by lining the walls with a bunch of water-filled plastic beads. In some this means they are continually venting moisture. I had one that was impossible to keep dry no matter how often I changed the dessicant.

A better choice is a gun safe. If it's safe for guns, it's safe for coins. Fire-resistant gun safes don't use water beads.

A gun safe also gives excellent volume for the dollar. You can get a refrigerator-sized amount of storage in a quality gun safe with a nice Mas-Hamilton self-generating electronic lock (never needs batteries) for less than [insert price of key coin in your set here].

And you can tell your wife/husband it will also protect her/his jewelry/highschool-sports-trophies and maybe only half has to come out of your coin budget.