Hey,
What's the best way to store bitcoins safely without a ledger/other hardware wallets?
Thanks
Why would you not have a hardware wallet ?
You could look at an opendime as a storage media but then you need a safe way to "spend" the coins.
Opendime donb't have backup, so if you lose it, you lose your bitcoins.
Same goes for all offline storage (casacius for example).
Just get a nano S and be on the safe side.