Looking into purchasing a home safe?
Been looking for a while and thoroughly confused?

If you are like most people, and you are looking for a safe for your home, you are confused and don't know exactly what you're looking for. There are many kinds of safes on the market today and there are many sizes as well. This is going to be a short questionaire for you to help you decide what protection you need for your home safes.

Home safes might not be the best place for your precious jewelry, rare coins, or 1952 Mickey Mantle rookie card. For those kinds of treasures, a safe-deposit box at a bank probably offers more protection. But if you want to safeguard hard-to-replace items such as family photos, birth certificates, passports, and tax records while keeping them close at hand, a safe could be a relatively inexpensive solution.

A simple way to determine how large a safe you might need is to pile up everything you plan to put in it and measure. A fairly common home-safe capacity is 1.2 to 1.3 cubic feet, which should easily accommodate a foot-high stack of 8½- by 11-inch papers, for example.