Ever forgotten the combination to your safe?

[Bullet Bob]

I come home from grocery shopping, and go to open the safe I've had for 25 years. Can't do it!

Leave it for a while, still can't do it. Take a nap, still no love.

Finally realize I'm transposing a couple of numbers and get it open. Whew! Thought I was going to have to contact the son for the combo, which might have him searching for rest homes.

Wrote it down and will put the combination in the safe with the electronic lock; I set that combination, so I have a pretty strong mnemonic for that one.

This post is mostly joking around, but it makes me empathetic for those really losing their memory. You would think that you wouldn't miss what you don't remember, but it's stressful because you can remember that you don't remember something.

 

[boatme99]

Luckily, no. But I do have it in my phone listed as a fictional phone number.
Only 2 other people have it in their phones, the 2 that will have have to open it when I shuffle off this mortal coil.

 

[memtb]

I hate numbers and generally can’t remember them....except for load data! I’ve forgotten the safe combo, more times than I care to remember! In desperation, using a “marks a lot”, I wrote the numbers where I could easily find them.....on the safe door! memtb

 

[walkinghorse]

Can't remember?

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

You can write in plain sight, Millennials don't know the meaning of Clockwise & Counter Clockwise!

I have mine stored in my computer with a picture of my wife, and listed as her measurements!

Ivan

 

[grover99]

Had a post office box that I checked about every day for 10 years. Once day I started to open it and found that I had forgotten the combination. Finally had to ask the postmaster to give it to me. Wonder why that happens sometimes? Maybe a part of getting old.

 

[eveled]

Senior year in high school I forgot the combination for my locker. After almost 4 years of using it daily. So it’s not senility.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Rule3]

Yep lots of time, then I have to remember where i left the written instructions.
Many times I would forget the pass code to get into the office doors. I would come and go several times a day. Come back and damn whats that number, I would stand there waiting for someone to go in or out.

"Hey Rule, forget the password didn't ya"

Worse was forgetting what floor of the parking garage I was parked on. Come in the morning on level 2, then go out for field work several times a day and by the end of the day, no clue as to what floor. Take the elevator go up to the 6th floor and do the walk down stroll, press the key FOB, co workers go by and just nod as they know the feeling!

 

[ralph7]

Senior year in high school I forgot the combination for my locker. After almost 4 years of using it daily. So it’s not senility.

I still have dreams about that, and I'm 67!

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

In our family, I remember the important dates. She has forgotten a couple of times, but I'll keep her anyway!

Ivan

 

[BAM-BAM]

You can write in plain sight, Millennials don't know the meaning of Clockwise & Counter Clockwise!

I have mine stored in my computer with a picture of my wife, and listed as her measurements!

Ivan

Great idea........ can a women have a sub 10 waist??????????

 

[Onomea]

I have a recurring frustration dream wherein I can’t remember my gun safe combo. I always wake up and it’s, “Dammit. That dream again.”

A few years ago, when I was first diagnosed (incorrectly, thank goodness) with terminal cancer, I pulled into a gas station and found I could not recall how to open the gas cap on my own car.

 

[RudyN]

I forget to combo to my safe as I don't open this one to often. That's why I have it written on a card in my wallet. Also have the original sales paper with the combo in a drawer.

 

[bgrafsr]

I come home from grocery shopping, and go to open the safe I've had for 25 years. Can't do it!

Leave it for a while, still can't do it. Take a nap, still no love.

Finally realize I'm transposing a couple of numbers and get it open. Whew! Thought I was going to have to contact the son for the combo, which might have him searching for rest homes.

Wrote it down and will put the combination in the safe with the electronic lock; I set that combination, so I have a pretty strong mnemonic for that one.

This post is mostly joking around, but it makes me empathetic for those really losing their memory. You would think that you wouldn't miss what you don't remember, but it's stressful because you can remember that you don't remember something.

I taped the combination on the safe door, so I would remember it.

 

[Golddollar]

I forget to combo to my safe as I don't open this one to often. That's why I have it written on a card in my wallet. Also have the original sales paper with the combo in a drawer.

Something else to consider is how your executor or administrator will get into the safe after you die. Not necessarily giving that person the combination now, but make sure there is some way that he or she will be able to find it when the time comes. I've heard from this forum that having to drill into a safe gets pretty expensive.

 

[bushmaster1313]

I once had to flip through all 1000 permutations of a small lock used to secure a pistol case used to travel to the range

 

[josywales]

After my father passed, the executor wanted to open his double door safe and I was only one who knew the password. Still, it had been years and even knowing the combination didn't guarantee entry - it was finicky.

I grabbed the dial, moved it EVER so slightly and stopped. I grabbed the right handle and bingo! He left it unlocked. He, too, might have been having issues opening it. We changed the combination before closing it, just in case.

 

[Fishslayer]

When my chemo brain was at it's worst the combo of the bedside safe left me. I mean... I've been opening the thing for years. The combo was just... gone!

Doing something else a few hours later, totally unrelated, it popped back up. As usual.

 

[woodsltc]

Something else to consider is how your executor or administrator will get into the safe after you die. Not necessarily giving that person the combination now, but make sure there is some way that he or she will be able to find it when the time comes. I've heard from this forum that having to drill into a safe gets pretty expensive.

Wife and I have a safe deposit box at the bank we use.....the combination to my gun safe is kept there.

Don