I have a small safe, if you can call it that. I have about $1,000 cash in it and a few other items, mostly wife's jewelry but also insurance policies birth certificates etc., it's hidden but a determined burglar could find it and carry the whole thing away. I have it mostly for its fire retardant qualities.
I'm wondering how much a sturdy and heavy enough safe, that a thief could not handily steal, might cost.
“I’m wondering how much a sturdy and heavy enough safe, that a thief could not handily steal, might cost.”
I bought a fire-proof file safe at an auction several years ago for $5. Looks like a large filing cabinet.
Rekeying it cost about $20.
Better, and much lower profile than a large safe, which itself becomes a target.
I have one that weighs 500 lbs empty, and it bolted to the concrete floor. Probably weighs twice that filled as well. If someone can break in and walk out with that puppy, more power to them. (they’d just better not do it when anyone is home, or the may get buried in it...”
“I have a small safe, if you can call it that. I have about $1,000 cash in it and a few other items, mostly wife’s jewelry but also insurance policies birth certificates etc., it’s hidden but a determined burglar could find it and carry the whole thing away.”
Ill test it for you.
Where is it hidden and whats the combination?
Oh, and what time of day will you not be home?
;-)
You might consider what I did with mine.
It’s located in a closet and I pulled back the carpet, cut out a section of floor, careful so I could replace it securely.
I then put a couple of 4 by 4s under the floor boards, replaced the floorboard and carpet. Everything looked undisturbed.
I drilled 4 holes in the bottom of the safe and ran lag screws through the floor of the safe into the ‘buried’ 4 X 4s.
No one is going to be able to get it off the floor, even if they use the 5 foot crowbar from my garage.
They’ll move on to an easier target.