Having a small safe in dorm room

alwaysamom
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:48:53 +0000

Any true safe that will actually safeguard valuables is going to cost hundreds of dollars and even the smallest weigh about 400 lbs. You’d best discuss that with the school housing dept because some dorm floors probably couldn’t support them! The small so-called safes sold at BB&B or similar stores aren’t going to actually safeguard valuables to the extent that most people think. My D who attended NYU years ago had a couple of friends who had such ‘safes’, and both had them stolen! My D used the locked desk drawer and she and her roomie made sure that they locked their door. Two of my Ds had those two drawer filing cabinets that locked. My other two Ds didn’t use anything in particular but my guess is that their dorm rooms were so messy that no one would have been able to find anything valuable. :)