Where do you keep your important documents?

Yankee24

Amazon sell a great fire safe bag….   I got bored of a safe.  

MikeJXE

Mine are all online in the cloud.

If everything goes up in smoke including me my kids can login and get everything. 

Sea_Shell

Yankee24 said:

Amazon sell a great fire safe bag….   I got bored of a safe.  

That's the sort of thing I think I'll get.

A fire/waterproof document wallet.

Not super secure, but convenient and better than what we have.

One can get too paranoid about such stuff, if you think about it too much! 😉

LHW99

Lockable metal tin in a metal filing cabinet for the paper stuff that has to be paper (passports etc). Digital copies of everything on hard drive / disk.

Insurance documents are accessible from the companies' secure sites.

HouseMartin567

Bruising question for me as I was burgled a few months back and my documents box was stolen. My passport wasn’t in it, but my birth certificate was, alongside pension statements, p60s, some old bank details etc. As a result of this I now have a safe fixed into the wardrobe.

WYSPECIAL

Will is with Central Probate Registry.
Passport card and driving licence card stay in my wallet.
Everything else in a filing cabinet in the office. I might check out those fire proof bags that have been mentioned.

GrubbyGirl_2

I have a fire safe.  I don't bother locking it but it has passport and other important documents plus it has a couple pf portable hard drives with electronic files backed up and photos

bownyboy

Every document is scanned and kept in a 'home' folder in the cloud accessible by me and my wife. I shred any paper documents onced scanned (eg: bills etc).

We also have them mirrored in another cloud location.

Physical copies of important stuff (LPAs, Wills, V5 etc) in a fireproof / waterproof safe (60mins) along with a USB key updated once a month with a copy of the cloud scanned documents.

2FA (or authentication key) activated on all accounts were possible.

As a side we've also activated legagcy contacts on accounts where possible (gmail, facebook etc) so that my parter and I can access each others accounts should something happen to one of us.

Sea_Shell

On the subject of security, can you disable Google Drive on your phone, whilst still retaining access via a home laptop or PC?

Should you just download a copy of those documents you may need whilst out and about (car ins cert)?

I've realised that having all these documents available on my phone is not necessary or very secure, if someone were to force me to unlock my phone.   

I'm trying not to wear a tin-foil-hat here, but the world is not becoming a safer place anytime soon!!

jim8888

I've started to try and save all important documents into the cloud. This includes passports, driving licence and so on. Of course you then start to fret that Google will implode and ask yourself "Should I be doing a back of the back up....?"