If theft is a concern, you'd want to choose your safe very carefully. I was considering getting a safe, too, but I was dismayed by how easily someone with a modicum of knowledge and preparation could break into many of the popularly sold safes. Many of them don't even use steel thick enough to withstand the brute force approach. On the other hand, it looks like the really safe safes will cost thousands of dollars. They are big, heavy, hard to move, etc., and generally very inconvenient.

Also, I wonder whether in a burglary, by putting your documents in a safe you are more likely to lose them. Reasoning that a safe typically has more valuable stuff, the burglar might concentrate his effort there.

DB