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Here's your money briefing for Friday, November 15th. I'm J.R. Whalen for the Wall Street

Journal. For years, banks have allowed customers to rent safe deposit boxes to store important documents and valuables and protect them from fire and theft.

Now it's becoming harder to secure a box.

You have banks when they open new branches these days.

They aren't necessarily putting safe deposit boxes in them. Some banks are telling

customers they can't open new boxes, and some are just saying altogether that they're shutting

down these deposit boxes. And then the other sort of broader theme that we're seeing here is

that banks have been shutting branches for years now, and when they shut branches, they shut

safe deposit boxes.

So if not at the bank, where can you go to safely store your belongings? Well, branches for years now, and when they shut branches, they shut safe deposit boxes.

So if not at the bank, where can you go to safely store your belongings?

We'll talk to WSJ's Ben Eisen after the break. It's getting harder to find a bank that offers safe deposit boxes.

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