Fire Resistant Document Storage Bag

Every one of us has some important documents to protect. It could be passports and birth certificates, some cash or precious photos. It could be property deeds, business ownership documents, insurance policies. It could even be documents covering your estate plan: a will, a living trust perhaps, durable power of attorney for health care and one for finances, or even written instructions for your funeral or donations of body parts. You obviously want to keep all these documents in a safe place. Naturally, you look for a secure place for storage ? a safe in your house or office, or even a drawer in your file cabinet or desk. Some people use a safe deposit box in a bank, but that can sometimes pose problems.

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An inexpensive but very effective way to protect such documents from fire is to put them inside a fire resistant document storage bag. This fire resistant document storage bag is quite big ? at 9 in x 14 in, it can hold legal size documents. With its fiberglass construction, it is built to withstand high temperatures of 1000oF. In terms of fire resistance, it gives as much protection as a fire safe at a much lesser cost.

If you have only one safe in the house, and it is a burglary-resistant safe where you store your valuables, you should realize that such safes cannot do much to protect valuable documents or records against fire. If a fire were to occur, any documents inside a burglary-resistant safe would be reduced to ashes.

You can stuff your important documents in the fire resistant document storage bag and store them in the burglary-resistant safe. In that manner, the documents are protected both against burglary and against fire. By the way, do not forget to let the person who will wind up your affairs know what you have arranged and how to obtain the documents. Life has no reset button, think safety.