You're very lucky that you've still recovery your wallet, you almost made mistake by deleting your wallet.dat file that possibly will be lost forever.
All you need to have is a hardware wallet just like suggested above the Trezor and the Ledger Nano, they're trusted and well-known wallets so far but if you want a big list of hardware wallets you might head upon this [BIG LIST] Hardware wallets (80+).
Probably that's 2.49 Bitcoin came from your collecting faucet before, it's really worth it before to join a faucet, but now I don't think still the same and I don't know how will it take before you can collect even 1 Bitcoin.
All you need to have is a hardware wallet just like suggested above the Trezor and the Ledger Nano, they're trusted and well-known wallets so far but if you want a big list of hardware wallets you might head upon this [BIG LIST] Hardware wallets (80+).
Probably that's 2.49 Bitcoin came from your collecting faucet before, it's really worth it before to join a faucet, but now I don't think still the same and I don't know how will it take before you can collect even 1 Bitcoin.
Oh, I forgot to say, I recovered the wallet.dat file from my trash bin.