The Safe
We have our important items in a safe. It’s not a particularly big safe (it would be easy to pick up and carry away). In fact, we don’t keep them there because they need to be locked up; we keep them there because the safe is fireproof. And it’s a convenient place to keep things important things you need very often.
Sometime during our move, we I lost misplaced the papers that had the combination. The safe also requires a key, but being the cunning individual I am, I just leave them in the safe all of the time. However, two thorough searches around our house for the combination have turned up nothing. I knew exactly where it was in the other house, but a lot of the papers within my ornate filing system got refiled when the wife got a hold of them, since there wasn’t much order to them. It’s possible the paperwork still exists, but we can’t find it.
I found the safe manufacturer had a website that was easy enough to get to, and sure enough, there was a place to request a missing combination. I did it via e-mail, and only had to supply my name, phone number, and the safe model #, serial #, and key #.
And about 12 hours later, I got the combination. Awesome.
Until you sit and realize: if someone had stolen my safe, they could’ve just as easily gotten this themselves. So, it’s not really a safe anymore, is it? It’s just a fireproof box that takes a bit of time to open. I suppose a thief could open it without the combination using some combination of firesaws and volts. But the ease of which I got the combination via mail is somewhat surprising.
Oh well, the safe is now open. This means the wife’s car title is now accessible, so expect a new car blog in the next couple of days.
October 16th, 2006 at 7:05 am
Wow, we have a safe as well solely for the fire-proofness of it. Unlike you though, we never lock ours because we would most certainly misplace the key and lose access at least temporarily.
October 16th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
I suppose that if you reported it missing (stolen), the Safe company would not be so quick to email the combination… But it’s still a good idea to keep your fireproof things there. I hear you can also keep such documents in a freezer, which will supposedly withstand similar heat.
October 16th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
I heart safes. I have 2 currently. One is fire/water proof to hold important docs and stashes of cash. For this reason it is locked. The key to the lock is in the other safe which only opens with code. Its a 5ft/3ft/2ft weighs ~400 lbs with 8 1 thick hardened locking rods. It is currently bolted to floor. I got it on sale. I feel the key is now safe.
October 21st, 2006 at 8:50 pm
mom does the same thing, she gets a hold of the papers and they go missing. I think it runs in the family. Hopefully I didn’t get it and it sticks only with the older sister.