Where do you prefer to keep your valuable possessions: documents, cash, jewelry, firearms, artwork, old love letters? If in your home, where? Do you have a safe? Are "Safety-Deposit Boxes" in bank vaults still in vogue?
In the event that your valuables are safely-stashed, will your assigned successor(s) be able to access them? Talkin' death now, but less squeamishly, how about possible theft of the items?
My Dad kept a Safety-Deposit Box in our bank, in the vault buried beneath it in the basement. I gazed about in wonderment whenever we went down there; everything was made of shiny stainless steel. A barred entry guarded the enormous circular vault door, about 8 feet in diameter, round, suspended by gigantic hinges. The entry was watched by an employee, who opened the barrier after being convinced of one's viability, thence to the gaping round door, which was about a foot thick. Within there were thousands of individually-locked boxes built into the walls. We had one of the smallest, about the size of a shoebox. Two locks guarded each box: one accepted my Dad's key, the other the attendant's. After retrieving our box from within the wall of boxes, we retired to a phone-booth-like room to peruse our valuables. He had house deed, insurance policies, etc., thus safely protected against theft or fire.
Has the "Computer Revolution" changed any aspects of this? My forebears were generally known to keep their life's savings stuffed into the matresses they slept on! imp
In the event that your valuables are safely-stashed, will your assigned successor(s) be able to access them? Talkin' death now, but less squeamishly, how about possible theft of the items?
My Dad kept a Safety-Deposit Box in our bank, in the vault buried beneath it in the basement. I gazed about in wonderment whenever we went down there; everything was made of shiny stainless steel. A barred entry guarded the enormous circular vault door, about 8 feet in diameter, round, suspended by gigantic hinges. The entry was watched by an employee, who opened the barrier after being convinced of one's viability, thence to the gaping round door, which was about a foot thick. Within there were thousands of individually-locked boxes built into the walls. We had one of the smallest, about the size of a shoebox. Two locks guarded each box: one accepted my Dad's key, the other the attendant's. After retrieving our box from within the wall of boxes, we retired to a phone-booth-like room to peruse our valuables. He had house deed, insurance policies, etc., thus safely protected against theft or fire.
Has the "Computer Revolution" changed any aspects of this? My forebears were generally known to keep their life's savings stuffed into the matresses they slept on! imp
