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Jasonjust don't store your collection in your garage!
growing up, my family's garage caught fire from a downed electric pole during a storm...took 15 minutes to put it out, but it was 1400 degrees inside according to the firefighters, who managed to put it out before it got to the car fuel tanks
So it sounds like:
1) most valuable at the bank
2) home storage should be buried in the ground, water-and heat-resitant if possible, no tumblers or levers, and nowhere near the garage
3) insure everything (but with who?)
yikes, this is all scary enough to scare me back to collecting just my 1983 Topps!