best way to keep cold storage wallet, but connect it to internet rarely to send. - page 2.

I want to move my bitcoin off of an exchange into cold storage.

I currently own a old laptop that actually was never connected to the internet and never used, its still brand new.

I know I can create an electrum wallet on that laptop while offline, the issue I have is that I want to make sure that the coins are actually in the wallet and I am able to see and also send them out of the wallet. I know I can see them easily, but I also want to make sure I can send the coins to make sure I don't mess something up here.

My question is, how would you go about keeping my bitcoin offline, but connect the wallet a few times to the internet to check to make sure my wallet works as intended?

Like, should I create the wallet on the offline laptop, recreate it to make sure the words are correct, send money to it, then put the wallet on USB (so I don't have to recreate it on my internet connected PC) and see if it works on my main computer with the secured password or something?

Thanks for any advice here.

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