Are you considering adding a safe to your home furnishings? It’s actually a smart move! Residential safes are NOT just for rich folks; they are also for savvy ones, too! If you look at the popular perception of safes on television or in movies, you see big mansions or luxury high rise penthouses with home safes in mahogany paneled libraries or hidden in the walls behind priceless art. In reality, home safes are used not only here in Augusta, GA but all across our country by smart homeowners that value their privacy as well as their assets.
Who can use a good home safe?
You may be wondering just who can make use of a home safe and why. The simple truth is; anyone. Having a safe at your home allows you to secure prized items that you want to keep protected from nosy neighbors, burglars, uninvited intruders, and even the elements like rain, moisture, wind and dust.
You can store items in your home safe for long term safety or for fast access when needed. These can include cash money, passports, drivers licenses, security badges, real estate deeds and titles, mortgage notes, bank books, birth certificates, flash drives, key codes, number sequences and combinations, warranties, art, prized photos, software, old mementos, jewelry, private correspondence, appraisals, and anything else of value that you’d like to preserve in safety.
Better protection
Here at Augusta Locksmith Pro we are often asked what the difference is between a home safe and any other locking item like a file cabinet or lock box. These all lock and they all protect your valuables so what is so good about a home safe? First of all, a residential safe is usually larger and much heavier than a lock box or chest. While some smaller safes might be considered portable, the larger ones are too heavy for the average thief to simply grab and run. Also, the locks on a safe are much more secure than on other forms of locking items in the home. File cabinet locks are easy to break as are locks on chests, cabinets and lock boxes.
Cash money
Money has a thousand uses when it is in the form of cold hard cash. Think back to how many times you’ve been able to pay for things easily and conveniently without having to run to the bank or local ATM machine and fight the crowds or wait in line. Cash money comes in handy during emergencies like suddenly needing a dentist or having to pay for vet bills at the last minute. Money can be used for down payments on real estate, gifts, tips to landscapers or restaurant servers, pizza delivery and lots more. You can use cash for charity donations, business deals, auto repairs and even funeral expenses! The amount you keep in your home safe is entirely up to you but having a fast source of real cash on hand always gives a sense of security and monetary protection.
Documents
Wait! Shouldn’t documents be kept in a file cabinet? That depends. Just how vital are those documents, and how important is it that they are kept safe and unavailable to the “wrong persons?” File cabinets, desk drawers and other similar filing systems are great for common, garden-variety papers like forms, contracts, old records and the like. Your home safe is perfect for extra special paper files like passports, key codes, original birth certificates, bank passbooks, combinations, password lists, insurance documents, appraisals, warranties, court papers, foreign currency, stock certificates, collectible signatures, tax returns, foreign currency, rare stamps and other valued items of the same nature.
Jewelry
Jewels go in jewelry boxes, right? Not necessarily! Again, this is up to you, but the more valued and rare a jewelry piece happens to be; the more likely you are to keep it protected in a safe! Items can include collectible pieces, watches, necklaces, rings, bracelets, estate jewelry, heirloom pieces and even single gems along with their appraisals and insurance papers.
Guns
This one throws people off sometimes; shouldn’t guns be kept in a gun safe or cabinet? Again, that depends. If you have several firearms, especially larger ones, you’ll want the size and secure convenience of an actual gun safe. Many of our Augusta, GA customers on the other hand prefer to have one or two smaller handguns but don’t want to have them lying about where children or guests can access them irresponsibly. Your locking home safe is the perfect haven for this very thing.
Other items for your safe
It’s your safe so you make the rules! You can put other items that you want to protect in your safe like software, flash drives, personal letters, treasured photographs, even secret recipes! As always you are free to choose what is added to your safe and what is kept in other somewhat less secure parts of the house like desk drawers, cabinets, boxes or in the attic.
Where to buy your residential safe
You can shop for safes most anywhere, both in town and online. Many Augusta, GA retail stores like Target, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Sears and Lowe’s all carry safes of varying sizes and quality. All of these stores also list safes for sale on their websites so be sure to check there, too. Keep in mind, if buying online, that you will still have shipping costs, and maybe set-up fees, depending on the size and weight of the safe and your particular circumstances.
Safe stores are another local source for buying a safe. There are pros and cons involved when dealing with them. You can get more detailed information about your safe from a safe store owner verses a part time employee at Wal-Mart. On the other hand, most safe stores outsource their installations, set-up, delivery, and maintenance to others so you might want to avoid all the middle-man markup fees and just deal directly with a full-service residential locksmith shop like ours or another local Augusta, GA lock and key firm that you’ve used before.
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