Come all ye Safe Crackers - AIBU to move without opening it?

[2017SoFarSoGood]

Fool that I am, I chose AIBU for my first post. Eek! Here goes.

15 years ago we moved into our beautiful home. In the downstairs room (family room I guess) there is a large walk-in closet. In the back of that closet, to the right, there is another smaller closet, without a door. The bottom 3 feet is raised, and carpeted, oddly. Hardwood floors everywhere but there. DH poked around, and lo and behold: the raised floor (I shall draw a diagram if I this thread gets any interest - I know it is a prerequisite in circumstances such as these) lifts up! It is a carpet covered fake floor covering A LOCKED SAFE. A rather large, locked safe. Locked tight. It is built into the cupboard.

So here's my AIBU. Is it unreasonable to spend $500 or so to have a locksmith come crack it? We are preparing to sell up, and could find lots of other things to do with that money. We could leave it for the new owners to open, but where is the fun in that? On the other hand, what if it has even one thing of wonder (or value) locked inside?

Would you crack it?

Wou ld you take bets on what lives inside?

but Mimsy I'm 8 hour ahead of you. I'd be happy to oblige but if I leave early and then I get fired I'm going to be awfully sad when it turns out there is no money nor anything of value in this f'n safe

Nosy bitch here

Absolutely nothing constructive to add...

just blatantly place marking is all

Alternatively... you might never have to work again if you leave work now and find bullion in the safe? It's worth consideration

northernlites I like how you think

How have you lived there 15 years and never got an angle grinder out to the bloody thing? I can't cope with waiting for xmas day to open presents and your waiting 15 years to uncover either a treasure map, dead body or someone's used sex toys.

Hopefully the video will show you how to do it and not just confuse you further! My parents had an old gun chest / cupboard that was hidden under the stairs that I never knew existed until we were spring cleaning their house and found it.

It was empty though :-(

Why do I care so much about this? It has no bearing on my life, why am I so invested?

I was way overly invested in the victorian safe thread bloody woman . Our safe has spare car keys, keys to my Mum's house, passports and other travel stuff, d's birth certificate, DH company papers. Hope your one is more exciting

How exciting! I'm hoping it will be open by the time I wake up!

Placemarking for the safe and in the hope of hearing more about Anatidaes hidden floor - how on earth was it not blatantly obvious? Are there pictures? Pretty please?

@2017SoFarSoGood '8 hour ahead of you.'

Aussie? Kiwi ? US ?

I think op said they were in the US

I suspect it's an empty gun safe

Ooo exciting! I used to dream of finding abandoned houses where people just left and I got to nose through it all. My house is boring and new build.

I have a feeling your safe is empty but I would have to open it or drive myself insane wondering

Ah, come on! I'm never going to get any sleep with the wondering... when you said you'd do it tonight, I thought you meant my tonight! Pants...

I need to know what's in this safe!

San Francisco area Madhugger

Pickleme I shall try my hardest to turn day into night for you

I had no idea the pressure of an AIBU could be this much. Not sure I'm up to it

Any news?

I'm concerned about the combination of randomly smashing lights and a mysterious locked safe. If it's actually the door to the hellmouth call Buffy can you imagine the reconstruction costs 😯 of the house and for the police as they track down MNers from all over the world to explain their vital role in proceedings.

Pretty sure it's not a gun safe

Oh I hope it's not empty

Schroedinger's safe :)

This is going to be soul-destroying if it's empty!!! I hope it's full of diamonds and cash!!!