Economic uncertainty and instability is the matrix from which personal insecurity emanates. As trust in the banking industry has waned, coupled with an overall lack of confidence in the economy, many investors are acquiring home and business safes to protect valuable documents, jewelry and currency. The current economic anxiety has engendered a desire to maintain contact with one's personal possessions. As the economic recession deepens, the need for personal and business security increases. The vacillating stock market and eroding real estate values have diminished confidence in these avenues and increased the desire for home, office and business security. Security and safety is now redefined as the most basic of all needs, the home and family. Detached from a theistic belief, safes are an emblem of security and personal safety.

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