Speaking of insurance, photos of the interior and exterior of your home are invaluable for reporting losses due to fire or theft to your insurance company.
If your house burns down or has been burgled, the first thing you’ll want to get your hands on is a copy of your home insurance policy and your agent’s phone number. Home, life and auto insurance policies are a key part of any financial back-up plan. Yes, home deeds and car titles are replaceable, but why go through the hassle if you don’t have to? Lose it, and you’ll have a difficult time getting a passport, or landing a job that requires proof of citizenship. Your birth certificate is proof that you are a citizen of the country you live in. Here are some of the more important things you should consider protecting:īirth certificates. Of course, no strongbox can hold everything - and so that demands a bit of discretion when deciding what to put in them. I’m a bit more judicious than the Honeybee when it comes to saving things - and I use a fireproof safe for the most important stuff.
What’s that? You say you’re looking for the operating instructions to a vintage Easy Bake oven, circa 1986? If I’m not mistaken, they’re in our closet too, not far from the rest of those 643 old birthday, Christmas, Easter, and Mother’s Day cards she’s been saving that nobody will ever look at again. The other day the Honeybee showed me her baseball ticket from our very first date way back on September 24, 1995.Īnd if I ever feel oddly compelled to scrutinize the birthday card I received from my mother-in-law in 1998, I can rest easy knowing that the Honeybee has it dutifully stored upstairs in our bedroom closet. Take my wife, for instance she saves everything.
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