[CertainInalienableRights]

This is sorta peripheral, but I'll ask it anyway...

Is a freezer a good place to keep cash and other valuables from a fire-protection standpoint?

I'm just curious how well freezers survive in the event of a house fire. Seems like its one of the last places a thief would look, and its a relatively convenient place to store valuables.

I guess, though, if you have enough cash that you would need to store it in the freezer, you'd be better off taking some of it and buying a good fire safe.

[G.Mason]

It would follow that if one is intelligent enough to have made enough cash to worry about it being stolen or destroyed, that one would be able to think of a viable plan to keep it safe.

Of course I say this as one who has little of either, therefor I keep ours in the shower curtain rod.

[Roccus]

An FDNY friend of mine said a long time ago that the best thing for papers was a leather briefcase. Not an attache (sp?) case, but a briefcase. He said that they almost always survived fires as did their contents.
Now this was a while back before all the new home safes appeared on the market.

Just my .02