Posted: 12/21/2010 10:09:58 AM EDT
| Been meaning to get one for years. Finally went and priced them today. Need to put some high end baseball cards and a coin collection in it. Going to videotape the contents of the house including guns and stick it on a flash drive and stick the flash drive in as well. What other things do I need to include on the flash drive and in the box itself? What do you all put in your safe deposit boxes? |
| I have an WWI issued Colt 1911, a WWII issued Colt 1911, a Colt peacemaker built in 1907 with Colt production sheet, A folder with all the S/N's of all my firearms and receipts for all the expensive bits and pieces, a flash drive with pics of all of them, the titles to my vehicles and deed to my house, my wills both living and material and then some CD's, cash, misc. paperwork and some other junk. I ended up with the biggest one my bank has. If nothing else it helps me sleep at night. Well worth the money I think. |
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NOTHING! I refuse to have a bank safe deposit box. After fathers death we weren't able to get into it until probate had a look-see to make sure they taxed everything they could. We couldn't even touch the family accounts and that's where he kept the family 'emergency' cash since we didn't have a safe at home.
now, if this is a home security/safe deposit box - just what you described - but remember this - if the bank closes, you have to jump through a LOT of hoops to get your own property back, bank holidays - NO access to your stuff. Just my thoughts, but I'm a little bias toward this subject. |
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NOTHING! I refuse to have a bank safe deposit box. After fathers death we weren't able to get into it until probate had a look-see to make sure they taxed everything they could. We couldn't even touch the family accounts and that's where he kept the family 'emergency' cash since we didn't have a safe at home. now, if this is a home security/safe deposit box - just what you described - but remember this - if the bank closes, you have to jump through a LOT of hoops to get your own property back, bank holidays - NO access to your stuff. Just my thoughts, but I'm a little bias toward this subject. Make out a will and your children won't have to go through the same thing. Its not the banks fault, its a lack of planning. |
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California got a bit zealous and was confiscating people's safe deposit boxes. Don't see what would stop other states. Also after gold was declared illegal in 1930, you couldn't open a box unless a .gov agent was there. And a box is not covered by FDIC insurance and are not covered by theft or damage. Don't keep ORIGINALS of important docs in them. Keep the originals, at home, in a fire safe.
Cali Theft And more |
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California got a bit zealous and was confiscating people's safe deposit boxes. Don't see what would stop other states. Also after gold was declared illegal in 1930, you couldn't open a box unless a .gov agent was there. And a box is not covered by FDIC insurance and are not covered by theft or damage. Don't keep ORIGINALS of important docs in them. Keep the originals, at home, in a fire safe. Cali Theft And more I've heard a buch of people claim that the government had agents there when you opened safe deposit boxes, but I've never seen a source for it. I do know a friend of my grandfathers who was a teller in the summers in college in 1929, and later retired as president of the same small town bank, has said many times he has never heard of such a thing, and that it would be unworkable anyway (both because of the idea of the .gov agents traveling all over the state just so ma kettle could open her safety deposit box, and the fact that if the coins were in an envelope or bag, they wouldn't be able to seize them.) He died 15 years ago, so I can't ask him again. BTW, both his bank, and the other bank in town, never closed their doors (unless ordered too) or failed to meet a request for withdrawl. He said this was pretty much typical for small town banks. People trusted them, and felt the panic and stock market colapse was something that affected people somewhere far away. As the depression hit, that created harship, not a run on the banks. |