Reddit reviews Boulong Fireproof Document Bag 15" x 12" NON-ITCHY Double silicone coated Fire|Water|Explosion Resistant Metal Zipper Double Pockets Withstand 2300℉. Fireproof Safe Storage for important properties

A couple thoughts on this:

1. Re: going paperless. Big fan, not 100% possible, but doable to a large extent. I digitize literally everything I can. I have a small, dedicated high-speed scanner connected to my computer so that I can drop in papers, scan them to PDF, run OCR, and save them into my Google Drive. This way all of my stuff is backed up online, searchable, and available across all of my devices. I then use a micro-cut shredder to eliminate the physical copy for personal security purposes. So pretty much once a day I grab my mail & anything else that needs to be scanned and scan it, save it, and shred it. Only takes a few minutes & I never have to think about it again!
   
   
2. Certain items require physical copies, such as your social security card & passport. I don't have an enormous amount of paperwork, so I didn't need something big, and I wanted something portable that I could take with me in the event that I needed to leave home for whatever reason, and I also wanted it to be safe (mostly, fire-proof) in the event that some kind of disaster happened. I ended up settling on a fireproof document bag that was a little larger than a standard 8.5 x 11" piece of paper so that it was easy to work with for shoving documents in (a lot of the little portable metal safes I saw didn't fit standard-size paper, or else weren't portable at all). Plus it was under $40 on Amazon, which was a lot cheaper than some of the safes I looked at: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076BQB45V/
   
   If a workflow update is not in the cards right now, then what you may be looking for is a legal-size tote:
   
   https://www.amazon.com/Vaultz-Locking-Personal-Documents-VZ01189/dp/B000GOYFE2/
   
   It's basically like a thicker briefcase that can hold larger legal-size documents, but has a nice filing system inside. Cheap & portable!
   
   Also, congrats on the new spouse, new degree, and new apartment! All of those happened around the same time for me as well, it was quite a whirlwind of a time haha.