Safes in dorm

<p>I might bring some expensive stuff to college like 2 laptops, ipads, and jewelry. are these available?</p>

<p>Lol are you serious? If I bust in your room and I see a safe, that’s the first thing I am going to bust with all my effort. Seriously, having a “safe” is actually worse than not having one at all</p>

<p>How would we know what is provided in your school’s dorms? There are no absolutes except a bed and a desk maybe</p>

<p>@holden… You can’t easily open a safe because… It’s a safe </p>

<p>@Op, there is nothing wrong with wanting to secure your valuables. In college campuses, people do steal! Friends, party guest and even roommates steal. Also, there are people who visit college campuses just to see if there are open dorms to steal from (depending on dorm security). If you will be bringing expensive stuff to college, I would suggest a safe. It doesn’t seem petty or worthless because you simply don’t want to loose those valuable electronic and jewerly.</p>

<p>Someone could just steal the safe</p>

<p>Also if you don’t mind me asking, why do you need 3 portable computers?</p>

<p>By having a safe, you are telling a thief, “All my valuables are in this box which you can pick up and crack later at your own leisure.”</p>

<p>People often bring laptop locks. I haven’t heard of any college providing a safe, or anyone actually bringing a safe.</p>

<p>At my school there was a lockable drawer in your dresser. I didn’t lock anything up (I should have, since my roommate lost her key and made me leave the door unlocked all semester, and I had some darn valuable/illegal things) but I thought it was a good way to keep things secure. You had to bring your own lock.</p>

<p>Lol, if you buy a safe your roommate’s gonna be like “Yo, homie, you be calling me a thief?!?” and then he’ll put the safe in the trunk of his car and break it at a later time.</p>

<p>^Definitely.</p>

<p>A safe is only useful if you can bolt it to the floor, otherwise someone would just carry it away. I doubt your school is going to be happy with you leaving huge holes in the floor.</p>

<p>You can take a safe, but you’re not going to need nice jewelry. If you’re an average college student, you’re not going to soirees and teas and balls, and costume jewelry will be all you need.<br>
Also, why would you take so many portable computers? You said iPads, plural. You probably won’t need all that, and you’re practically asking to get robbed.</p>

<p>I’m in the same situation. I’m not so much worried about my laptop, but rather my rolex and some Louis Vuitton pieces I have. I’m not too worried about the roommate, but the random people he might bring into our room when/if i’m not there.</p>

<p>What you have to do is put a safe inside another safe which should be inside one more safe. Then put your laptops and iPad in a backpack and put the backpack in a bag with your bowels and leave that bag in your freezer…
Edit: put your bowels in the safe inside a safe inside a safe and put your laptop on your bed</p>

<p>Leave them at home until you’re not in a dorm. Or get a safe at a bank if you can’t leave them at home. Seriously, a safe is just BEGGING someone to take the whole thing.</p>

<p>Even if the safe can be bolted, keep in mind that a safe that can protect your “valuables” for more than 15min unattended will probably end up costing more than the valuables you described.</p>

<p>Here’s the thing: safes aren’t exactly safe. They’re only there to slow down access so you can get proper response with real security.</p>

<p>That said, your best option is to not draw attention to valuables. Make the valuables blend in with the trifles, and generally keep a low profile.</p>

<p>Safes are there so children can’t get into things they shouldn’t. Unless you’re worried about children breaking in a safe is literally going to be worse than if you just hid your money or whatever in a tylenol box or something.</p>

<p>I do have a fire safe that I keep some stuff in, but that’s just because it’s fire proof. I keep the key connected to it so that if somebody does break in they can pop it open, see there’s nothing valuable in there, and save me a trip to get a new birth certificate.</p>

<p>If you bring a safe, I’m taking everything that’s in it. I know how to crack them open.</p>

<p>Just don’t be that guy, please.</p>

<p>My sister and her roommate (at Syracuse University) had a safe where they kept iPods and laptops, etc. They had it connected to a chain thing so that it couldn’t be stolen from the room. And they successfully managed to not have anything stolen all year while many of their friends had things stolen. So yeah, it was worth it for them, and when I leave for college next year I’ll be taking a safe with me, too.</p>