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What's in Your Billfold?
realian001 asks: "I have been through many different types of wallets...(those long wallets, tri-fold, bi-fold, money-clips, etc, etc). I finally settled on a bi-fold, but I was just curious, how does the average Slashdot reader 'configure' their wallet? A type of wallet would be a good starting point, then having cash or not, and/or how many different types of credit cards, grocery discount cards, etc etc etc."
About the only good thing about my long-gone Toyota Corolla was that the key was near flat and could be copied at my local hardware store. The one time (so far...) that I've locked my keys in my car, I had the backup ready to go.
reciepts... mainly so I don't feel bad when I pull it out and there's no money... booyah, it's still thick.
Or my favorite... changing a $20 bill into $1s just to pad my wallet.
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Bi-fold is best, tri-fold was OK.
Plenty of room for cards - credit, membership, ID and business. A cash holder of good size. And a plastic covered area to display an ID w/o removing it.
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It's all man made materials.
Bill area: $1-20 bills, paychecks, receipts, and coffee punch cards.
Left pockets: credit card.
Middle pockets: Student ID, driver's permit, gym card, health insurance card.
Right pocket: Free Software Foundation membership card (bootable Linux CD, fogged to unbootability by the plastic sleeve it arrived in, and later cracked)
Ducti
I got a Ducti wallet for x-mas and have loved it. It's been through the washer and dryer 4 or 5 times and still holds tight.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
My Wallet
Actually I owned one for about a year, and finally threw it out due to wear and tear a couple of months ago.
It peformed decent as far as wallets go; though I don't think I'll buy another one.
Still the coolness factor was very high, and I got a lot of positive comments about it.
A $20.00 tri-fold I picked up to replace it, has actually creased all my cards, some I am going to have to replace, so my next wallet will be a bi-fold.
trifold, no cash at the moment, student id, 3 credit / debt cards, license, social security card (bad idea possibly), 6 or 7 business cards (not my own), receipts from the past month, 2 coffee cards (so I get free coffee), and some savings cards from local food stores.
I always try to go with the thinest wallet I can find and also prefer wallets that (1) allow me easy access to my drivers license and company security swipe card and (2) doesn't let things accidently fall out.
Currently I am using a two-fold (e.g., it opens only once) that has the OUTSIDE an additional transparent pocket. That works perfectly as my drivers license and swipe card (and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Pass) go in the outside window. The inside are nice because the credit card holders face the inside of the wallet thus nothing will fall out. On one side I have my personal Credit Cards and the other my Corporate Credit Cards.
An additional nice thing about this wallet was an elastic band (the wallet is leather btw), that is easy to enclose (it's attached) the wallet making it even more secure.
As per those pesky grocery store cards... I don't keep them in my wallet, That would be an extra 5 cards for all the places I go - instead, I keep them in the car and then I can just pick the right one and take it into the store with me - so much more easy.
Oh ya, I also keep my wallet in my front pocket - more comfortable and more secure.
I tend to buy my wallets anywhere I find one that I really think would meet my criteria - however, this one I got at (yuck) Walmart.
Like, for instance, rolling papers, a baggie of blow and a couple of condoms.
"No beer until you finish your tequila!" -Leela's Dad
In the center, drivers licence. inserted holding the wallet with the 'openings' to the right, face up.
In the third above it, my personal credit card. Behind that Health Benifits card (ok, I have benifits from work..) Car maintenace/oil company loyalty card, and auto Insurance card. Behind that pics I have printed of my dogs, as well as a loyalty card for a coffee shop I frequent.
Standard wallet photo flip with pictures of family floats in front of my DL in the middle, and floats down. In the lower third I keep my business credit card, loyatly cards for B&N, Waldenbooks, GNC, Suncoast, AMC Theatres, and my library card.
That's about it. No cash in the wallet. That goes into a small notebook where I keep track of where I am spending the bills. (As much as I would like to do that on my PDA, I have not found an app I Like for doing that.)
Just pulled a few cards out of the wallet that really don't need to be there any more. SSN card goes into the safe pending my needing it for proof of elegibility to work.
-Rusty
You never know...
tri-fold wallet, but with the place where you put the bills is 2/3 of the wallet only, so it's essentially a bi-fold. the rest of the space is used for storing cards and the velcro to close the wallet.
I'd also like to know:
* Do you arrange your credit and other raised number cards alternately for a thinner package
* Where you walk late at night
* Coins in the wallet, pocket, or trash
* Account balances and CC limits
* Pictures, and of whom
I'm sure this information will help me become much more efficient in the use of your resources. Thanks!
-Adam
I have a sturdy, bifold leather wallet. It has been good to me. It has stood the tests of time, and being a 20 smethin kid. It has been to at least 3 foam parties, through the washer a few times, through the drier, and ran over by a car. On the left hand side, you have 2 grocery dicount cards, a AAA card, and a block buster card (so I can rent asci porn, and pick teh lock to my room). Oh the right side, we have a visa card, my check card, my student id, and a drivers license so I can buy booze. It has 2 divided pockets in the back, presumably for money, but being a poor college student those pockets often sit empty. The second pocket contains a portable insurance card, and the combination to some old safes. Then behind thecredit cards, is a small colelction of random business cards, mostly from people who wanted me to work for them, or exs. I also keep my "spare" campus id card in taht slot. The slot behind the discount cards contains the emergency contact list for my old job, and more random business cards. I think the trick is a bifold wallet, that fits in a suit pocket, hold all of my cards, cash and check book.
I've got a costanza wallet, nothing is getting in there withought being folded and pushed.. and i tend to lean to the right when i sit without it in my pocket..
Perhaps not, but I know of more than one who has been in a job where getting membership to a gym was simple, even if the only time that said geek went to the gym was to sign up.
You never know...
Submissions about advanced science, chip making methods, new programming languages, politicals (other than kerry is great) and other topics where all overlooked/denied to post a story about billfolds.
This is funny!
Why does this site NOT have a mute button?!?
copy all your blockbuster, tom thumb, kroger, etc etc grocrey store bar code jobbies onto one double sided piece of paper the size of a dollar bill.
moox. for a new generation.
about $20-$35 in change
cash card
id / license
library card
no grocery card. got one of the keychain things. much nicer!
I like to keep it simple.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
My wallet was made by a local leatherworker to his own demented wallet dreams, It's just over a year old and it's served its' purpose well.
It's very thin and only has three slot for cards, but I really like thin wallets and only carry two cards anyway - I use the third slot for any recent receipts - I like to keep things simple and don't really understand the mentality of having 4 credit cards 5 store cards and the last six months receipts.
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I hate bulky wallets, so I keep my few cards and bills in my pocket secured with a wide rubber band. It's cheap, functional, and the mailman brings me a new wallet almost every day!
I don't own a wallet, they're a pain in the ass.
Left back pocket contains driver's license, debit card and work ID. Back right pocket contains money and whatever receipts I collect throughout the day. Anything else I'll need I make sure to take with me in the morning.
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I don't use a wallet at all. Instead I have two of those little mylar sleeves that your bank will give you for free to put your ATM card in (just ask). One has my ATM card, driver's license, and "normal use" credit card in it. That goes in my right pocket, along with some cash and a few coins. Nothing else goes in that pocket, because I want to just reach in and take out cash or card w/o any shuffling.
The second mylar sleeve is for my business ATM card and business credit card, with my health insurance card in between. I don't use those nearly as often, so that goes in my left pocket along with a few other less important cards -- video rental, etc., and the junk I end up with during the day, like doctor/dentist appointment cards and restaurant receipts (purchase receipts go in the bag). And car keys if I have no jacket.
That pocket gets cleaned out every night -- appointments get scheduled and the cards get tossed, receipts get tossed, and so on.
Works pretty well, I think. I don't know how I'd work a real wallet -- where do people put them? I don't like stuff in my back pockets.
for years I kept every piece of paper that I came upon in an ass-denting, tri-fold wallet. I suspect I have hip problems today as a result.
anyway, I got fed up one day I switched to a very simple bi-fold wallet. it's not so much a wallet as a credit card holder I guess... I can carry the basic few things that I need rather than a bunch of useless crap. Haven't looked back.
long story short, I don't carry all that crap in my wallet any more. that's what glove compartments are for.
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This company makes a memory stick so slim it'll fit in your wallet... it's about as thick as 3 credit cards. Works great, very geeky... I keep my backups in my butt.
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I have a wallet made from hemp from Hemp Basics (link to a bi-fold, they also have a tri-fold.
I am on my second one now. They last forever. I get a lot of comments on it.
I wish they had one without velcro (I feel like a high school student opening my wallet), but it is still very nice.
As far as contents, minimal is the way to go. License, health insurance card, student ID, one video-rental chain card, one debit card. Some loose cash (organized from smallest denomination to largest going front to back).
- (c) 2018 Hank Zimmerman
Lets see. Leather walmart $8 billfold. Has lasted around 7 years. two bill pockets with reciepts. left side houses 3 pockets, on the bottom tier is a windowed pocket which has my DL, Debit, and a CC Middle pocket has a Base ID, library card, school id, paintball membership, hastings card, and subway card (almost full!) top pocket is empty (I should probably sort some stuff out. Right side has a tag that says "HIPPIE" done on one of those label makers and 4 pockets. 1st pocket has directions to a friends house. 2nd has two buisness cards, 3rd has a guitar pick and buisness card, 4th has a petco card (bastards), another pick, and a movie ticket stub. there are also pockets behind the right and left pocket. the left has my car insurance, and the right has my social security card. In addition the outside of the wallet has a sticker which reads "Earth is full, go home." Well he asked! Llynix
Thanks for the article idea. This isn't something I think about often, but am consious of and miss it when it isn't in my pocket. Even to just go outside to the car I feel to make sure it's there. In a crowd, I check on it often, almost unconsiously. Would I be lost somehow if it's goes away (again)? No, not really, but I would be inconvenienced. The most valuable thing in it is the pic of Cassius but I have another somewhere around here. Getting another drivers license isn't musch of a hassle 'cause I leave a spare state ID card on my boat.
I've had my nylon wallet for over 30 years now. It's been stolen twice, the cover is rubbed through, the inner latex is stained and thin, the velcro doesn't anymore. It has 5 pockets. Big one has money (~$100 a week) ordered lowest to highest from outside in then reciepts. One pocket has credit (2) and ins. cards and drivers license. Another pocket has club cards (Caribou coffee, Subway, Circuit City, Sam's, Costco, MARTA pass at the moment). One inner pocket has my business cards and the other has a laminated photo of my grandfather and a Kroger value card (No idea whose but it works). I like to keep the contents to a minnimum so that it's not a lump in my back pocket.
And I'd drop it in a trash can right now (emptied, of course) if I could find a new one with the same configuration and size. Been looking for a new one for years and still haven't found it. Maybe this article will produce some links to wallets.
School ID.
Driver's License.
2 Credit Cards.
2 ATM Cards (differen accounts).
Various store punch cards (you know the type, by X number get one free.)
And the most important thing in my wallet....
My lucky green #2 UNO card. I found it in a parking lot years ago and decided that given the incredibly small chance of finding a single UNO card in a random parking lot it must be lucky.
It's accompanied me through half a dozen wallets over two decades.
As I tend to keep my wallet in my front pocket, I have been on a constant quest for the thinest wallet possible, and containing as little as necessary. Two credit cards, drivers license, and that's it. I carry my money in a money clip.
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I used to do the same thing both with my Toyota Corolla and my Subaru Loyale.
Now I have a Honda Civic with those laser-cut keys where you have to get copies from the dealer at $bignum apiece, and I miss the security of knowing I had a nice, flat copy in my wallet.
Granted, with the keyless entry system, I shouldn't have to worry about that anymore since I can just lock the doors with it, but I'm not sure I trust them to not be easy to clone.
I mean, have you ever tried to make a good duct tape wallet? A simple "fold up pocket" one isn't too hard, but as soon as you try doing slots for credit cards and your drivers license and all, it becomes a huge PITA. If you're after a duct tape wallet for fashion rather than because you lost your wallet and are too cheap/poor to buy another (which, admittedly, is why I have mine), it's definitely worth it to just buy one.
Actually, mine's a little different. Fossil makes a wallet that's friggin huge; it's a combination checkbook and wallet. I like it; though I rarely write checks (I have a debit card and use it instead, but it's nice to have when I need it). as far as cards go, I only have 1 credit card and my debit card, a bus pass, my AAA card, two random other cards that I never cleaned out of my wallet, movie ticket stubs (I'm a packrat), and in the driver's license pocket I have my driver's license, SS card, health insurance card, and ... ::squint:: my card saying that I'm eligible for selective service. Eek.
I used to have my PADI dive card too, but I guess it got put up with my passport after my last trip.
I used to have a wallet, tri-fold. It had my quick reference list of phone numbers, a handful of business cards, every membership card I had ever been issued, some random post-it notes, scraps of paper and when I am lucky some money. It was great, except for the fact that it was HUGE. Well, it turns out that wallets don't like to be left in pants as they go through the washing machine, and when I found my long lost wallet in my pants pocket a week later it contained colored money! My business cards and some post-it notes of mine had bleed onto the bills and turned them pink and green. O, yeah the wash destroyed the wallet too. So, not I use a simple money clip. I put my business cards between my ID and credit card and fold my bills in half over everything else. Slip the whole package into money clip and voila, you've got a slim and easy-accessible wallet alternative. In the end I am glad my wallet was cleaned as it is sooo much better not to have that huge bulge in your pocket all day.
I know you aren't looking for Wallet suggestions, but I thought I'd pipe in.
I love my Fossil Chicago Super Capacity wallet. It has a flip up ID pocket, space for about 14 cards, + money and 2 hidden spare key pockets.
highly Recommended.
Fold 1: Corporate Visa cards, medical insurance card, voter registration, selective service registration card, social security card.
Fold 2: Various pictures of young women who will not date me.
Fold 3: Personal Visa cards.
Inside money fold: $1's and $5's for stripper tips
Outside money fold: $20+ for real purchases.
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I have a regular dark brown leather bi-fold wallet. I have my state ID in the little ID slot. I have my debit card in one of the card slots. I have $10 in the money part.
I do all my shopping over the internet, including groceries. I never need my wallet.
Two tips:
1) AAA members can go to their local office and ask for a free credit-card sized spare car key.
2) I recently bought an All-Ett, which bills itself as the world's thinnest wallet. It's definitely the thinnest of the several I've ever owned. I usually keep my wallet and keys in a desk drawer at work, but the All-Ett is thin enough I forget it in my back pocket some days.
I need to use a thin wallet, because it's *packed*. Here goes:
* Debit card
* Mastercard
* Debit card
* Borders gift card
* Costco card
* Amex
* CA driver's license
* Organ donor card
* Columbia University alumni card
* Columbia undergraduate college alumni card
* Refillable pay card for a large Times Square arcade that isn't even open anymore
* Medical insurance card
* AAA card
* above-mentioned AAA spare key
* LDS temple recommend
* Card containing LDS ordinances and the Articles of Faith
* For the Strength of Youth mini-brochure
* Blood donor card
* Card printed with important work-related numbers
* Restaurant Associates discount card
* List of Restaurant Associates-operated restaurants
* Electronic passkey for apartment building
* San Francisco Public Library card
* New York Public Library card
* Car wash discount card
* College-area deli sandwich discount card (I graduated five years ago!)
* Good Guys gift card
* Manhattan subway map
* Subway stamp card and loose stamps
* Another, different sandwich discount card
* Smart & Final club card
* Two of my business cards
* Family photo
* $1 in SF Giants Bucks
. . . and yes, some real money, too. Thank you, All-Ett.
Kenneth Cole Reaction wallet, bi-fold. Flap on the left with three card slots on front, slot w/ window on the back (so I can do that cool flip-open-ID-showing thing), attached to one the left side of the inner part of the actual billfold itself. Also attached to the inner part are two sets of four horizontal slots for cards, one on the left and one on the right. There are two slots behind these, one behind each set of four.
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Except the thread is black (what the hell is up with that white? gross).
The actual billfold holds mostly receipts and bankslips, as I rarely carry cash. Other contents: Mini-diploma from HS, drivers license, two bank/debit cards, student advantage card, library card, Democratic National Committee card, and another membership card I'd rather not name. Also, a business card for a member of my honors thesis committee. Also, on occasion, the phone number of a prospective date.
I tend to carry around a large amount of cash, a library card, a debit card for an account with little cash, a calling card, and a library card.
The back of my wallet is also filled with receipts that I haven't put in my ledger yet.
The wallet itself it a trifold, no animal products (I'm a vegan) that closes with a velcro tab. I tend to keep it in my front pocket.
... I'm going to guess unused condoms and pink slips. =P
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
Is condoms and money!
I wish...
No wallet. Four or five cards in my right pocket with my keys. Cell phone in my change pocket (the little one on my right hip). Cash and change in my left pocket.
I just shove all the cards, receipts, cash, nametag, post-it notes, pens, etc into my pocket. It just seems easier.
I'm sorry, but what the hell does opop mean, especially when combined with /. to make one word??
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And it has just the basics:
1) Drivers license
2) Visa/ATM card
3) 'Real' credit card
4) Two thin "junk cards" (local Co-Op and Gamestop) because when the credit cards rub, they seem to last about 4 weeks. I went through several before I hit on that.
No money, no receipts. What would I keep those for? I dump them as soon as I get home.
-WS
An operating system should be like a light switch... simple, effective, easy to use, and designed for everyone.
Once a month my wife takes the twenty so I have to get a fresh one.
Kramer: Mmm... Nice wallet.
Newman: Wallet.
Jerry: What?
Kramer showing Jerry the contents of his pocket
Kramer: Nobody carries wallets anymore. I mean, they went out with powdered wigs. Yeah, see here's what you need. Just a couple of cards and your bankroll.
See, keep the big bills on the outside.
Jerry: That's a five.
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Keep your wallet slim and it will cut down on back pain and discomfort. You spend a lot of time on your bum. I'll often put my wallet next to my keyboard while I work.
When I get up for any reason, even to draw on the whiteboard, this is my procedure.
1. CTRL-ALT-L unless I'm not leaving my cubicle.
2. Put pager in pocket.
3. Put wallet in pocket.
I have double checks built in by habit. I touch my wallet and keys and pager and badge before I go into the elevator, or close any door (car or building). It's a habit now so I haven't lost my keys or wallet (or anything else critical) for as long as I can remember now. Building habits like this means I don't have to remember anything.
I keep all my gear in a specific spot in the kitchen when I come home. I empty out my loose change into the same bucket. It's probably time to cash it in.
What I have in my wallet right now:
A picture of my wife.
Driver's License and insurance "cards".
The one credit card I use for day-to-day purchases.
The debit card to my principal checking account.
Costco card.
5 business cards. I keep more in my car, office, and at home. I empty out business cards I receive when I get them.
Receipts I haven't recorded in my family's general journal.
Other appropriate identification pieces.
It's a nice leather bifold my wife bought me, if you're curious.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
Single section wallet and integrated key holder: just enough to fit 4-5 credit cards and cash, plus 2-3 keys.
Don't forget that all techies need tools: I suggest a keychain size swiss army knife from victorinox (but, don't try to carry it onto a plane), and I never leave home without a SwissCard (http://www.victorinox.com/newsite/en/produkte/pr
I currently use one of those stylish slimline metal cigarette cases as a wallet. I've been meaning to put an insert in it for cards and whatnot, but just having a stack of cards and some cash under the little spring loaded arm works pretty darn well as is. The nice thing is its only like a quarter of an inch thick, so you can kiss your lower lumbar wallet pain (that you probably didn't even know you had) goodbye, you can't fit a huge amount of crap in it so it forces you to throw out those damn receipts, and since its several layers of steel it might even deflect a bullet. Plus whipping it out with one hand, hitting the spring loaded open button with your thumb and making it flip violently yet smoothly open looks really damn cool (until all your shit flies up in the air because you forgot to make sure it was under the spring arm.) Best wallet ever.
Billfold? Bi-fold? tri-fold? What are these terms? Is a tri-fold folded three times, or folded twice into three sections? :-)
My wallet is folded in half with velcro on the outside and over the internal coin pocket. I keep about a dozen pastic cards and my coinage in the wallet, and my banknotes (bills to you) folded in my right pocket behind my personal organiser. I wear reasonably close-fitting jeans, so my pockets aren't that easy to pick. It's never happened yet, anyway. If I'm carrying more than £100, I keep £100 in a zipped jacket pocket.
I have a 1950s bifold leather wallet, used to be my dads - I use it for day to day spending.
I also have a moneyclip, which I use when I'm going out, and generally just take a few hundred quid in it, so I don't spend too much. At the moment, I have about £11,000 in it - I'm about to go buy a car, and I prefer to pay cash (don't want phone calls going 'so, you bought a car, do you want to by x?').
Cash or no cash should be the starting point. Worry about the type of wallet later.
In fact, I don't normally carry ANY of the things people usually put in wallets.
Money? If I carried it with me all the time, it'd get spent, so I leave it at
home until I have a specific reason to take it along. When I do carry money, I
put it deep in a front pocket, where it's less likely to fall out and cannot be
picked without my knowing about it. Credit cards? I don't own any, and don't
want to -- I've seen people screw themselves up badly with those things, and I
don't want any part of it. Driver's license? I maintain a carless pedestrian
lifestyle -- that's the only exercise I get, and otherwise I'd be completely
sedentary. Plus it saves on gas and insurance, to say nothing of the cost of
a car itself and repairs. I do have ID, which I keep in my checkbook, because
when I write checks is the only time I ever need it. Library card? I have my
library card number memorized. Photos of loved ones? I'm a very non-visual
thinker, mostly auditory and conceptual, so photographs don't matter much to
me. What else do people carry around in wallets? Whatever it is, I don't
carry it.
What I *do* carry around all the time goes in my shirt pocket: my short term
memory -- in the form of a small schedue (which is generated by a Perl program
I wrote that uses DateTime and creates an OpenOffice document, which I print),
about two inches by three inches, one month per page, with room to write
things on each day. Also a writing utensil usually, and sometimes a Post-It
or similar with a note to myself about this or that that I need to remember.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
I have a money clip that's carved out of an old circuit board.
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I made mine smaller than the tutorial version, with fewer pockets and made it slightly shorter to be closer to the size of a US dollar bill. But you can add more pockets or modify the design however you want. And when people say "Is that duct tape?" you can say "Yeah, I made it out of duct tape. It's solid duct tape," instead of saying "Yeah, I bought it online."
In fact, it'll cost you about $4 for a roll of duct tape, and I made two wallets (a test run and a final run) and still have 90% of the roll of duct tape left. So it probably cost like $0.20 and took about 30 minutes total.
And you can give it 2 card pockets, or make it tri-fold, or add a window for a driver's license, or whatever you want.
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Bought a box of credit card size CD-R's (capacity about 50 MB w. plastic sleeve). I keep one in my wallet w. useful utilities. I also keep a USB flash drive on my key chain.
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My goal has always been to keep things as thin as possible. It's really a challenge with a driver's license, credit cards, insurance cards, video rental cards, business cards, and all those d*** "store discount" cards, and oh yeah...cash. I settled on a bi-fold model, and it's about as thin as it gets.
Also, a good tip is to scan or photocopy all of the barcodes from your many store discount cards onto a single sheet of paper. Makes things MUCH easier to manage!
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
Bi-fold containing the usual stuff.
And a first-aid and CPR instruction card, so I won't screw up in a panic, and of course a help for myself if I need help from someone who don't have any training.
Carbon based humanoid in training.
People at Slashdot sure do ask the stupidest questions.
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Coach makes (or used to make) one that is a 3 pocket pouch which holds cards, with a money clip on the other side. It's very thin, but I still have about 6 or 7 cards in it.
It's not a bifold either. When travelling, you should never carry your wallet in your back pocket because it is very easy for someone to steal. The reason I like this wallet, is that I can put it in my front pocket and it doesn't look funny.
Other people make wallets like this, but if you get a coach one, it has a lifetime warranty. I usually go through one every 2-3 years from wear. Although my current one is still good after about 4 years.
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I have one in my wallet- you never know when it will come in handy. One time, my older cousin insisted that I was making up the element Vanadium. So, I pulled out my pocket periodic table, and my younger cousin started looking at me funnily. Then my older cousin pulled out his pocket periodic table. And then my younger cousin got this fearful look on his face, yelled "geeks," and rand away.
Oh, yes...but the point of this story: always be prepared. You never know when you will need to scare somebody away with the body of chemical knowledge stored in your wallet.
My dingo ate your honor student.
I just converted to a money clip after years of using a bi-fold. For a long time, I used a bi-fold I picked up in London at a street market that had an integrated change purse and a flip out ID window, with plenty of room for cards. A little bulky, but had a great mix. This wore out and I'd been using something similar, without the change-purse with room for more cards. It was still bulky and since it didn't hold my change, I wasn't really happy with it. I finally moved to a money clip with a card pocket and ID window, and I think I've found the perfect mix. The clip is magnetic (hoping it won't zap my mag stripes) so it won't break like the traditional clip. So far, so good. It's small enough that I can carry it in a front pocket, it forces me not to carry receipts around. I'm missing a few cards, but I like another poster's suggestion to photocopy the cards from the grocery store, etc. onto a piece of paper which can be whipped out when needed.
This is a very slow day it seams...
16,777,216 comments ought to be enough for any forum!
two inches by three inches, one month per page, with room to write things on each day
Huh?
I just go upstairs (I live in the basement) and ask my mom
vodka, straight up, thank you!
I've got all the normal stuff... currency, drivers' license, various cards, reciepts, coupons, etc. I also have 2 128mb PQI Intelligent Stick USB drives. They come with a little carrier that fits in a card sized pocket it your wallet.
How does the Slashdot Effect happen given that no slashdotters ever RTFA?
Here is an interesting concept to hold your cards: http://www.chameleonnetwork.com/ This product may be vapourware, but it sounds cool.
Don't blame me, I voted for Cthulhu.
I have a rather expensive MontBlanc passport case, it's a slightly oversized bifold just large enough to hold a US passport. I splurged when I was going overseas for a trip and wanted to keep all my documents together. It's just big enough to fit your passport plus a small notebook, plus about 10 credit cards, some business cards, and money. It's nice having the oversize wallet when you're dealing with other currency that is larger than US greenbacks, or pocket documents like the Tokyo Metro map (they just fit).
I have one of those leather wallets, kinda generic. It has two currency compartments, four credit card slots on each side, and an area behind the card slots to stash "other" cards and stuff.
First off, I keep almost everything I will ever need in my wallet, because I tend to lose stuff if I don't. So mine is probably more crammed than the average geek's wallet may be.
Anyhow, the list:
In the back currency compartment I keep receipts until I can file them. Right now I have a couple of customer checks I have to deposit on the way home today, and an ATM receipt. Everything else I had has already been filed. The front currency compartment has about $70 or so in it.
On the left side of the wallet, the card slots have my credit cards from the big home improvement warehouses, my medical card, my every day credit card, and my drivers' license. In the miscellaneous pocket behind it are my library card, a couple of membership cards from organizations I belong to, a couple of discount cards from local stores, and my wholesale club membership cards.
The other side of the wallet has my two business credit cards in the top slot, followed my my personal Amex, another credit card, and both my home and business ATM cards. Behind them are a few of my business cards, a grocery store discount card, and my membership card at a local private social club I belong to - it's one of the ones that you can just wave at the sensor to unlock the door.
All together I'd say the wallet weighs in around 8 ounces. I used to use the heavy-duty nylon wallets, but they tended to wear out a lot faster than the leather ones do. I've had this one for about four years or so. I think I'll get about another two out of it, from the look of things.
In a related note, my keychain's also kinda overstuffed - it has my car key, remote, house key, office key, outside building key for after-hours building access, a Kryptonite lock key (not the kind that can be picked with a pen), a pocket electrician's Leatherman, and a little LCD flashlight. And that's after I took some non-critical keys off and put them on a separate keyring.
In other words, I need to get rid of some more stuff!
-- Josh Turiel
"2. Do not eat iPod Shuffle."
Brown leather purse-like wallet. One sections hold credit cards and bills folded over twice, the smaller section holds a few SmartMedia cards for my camera. It has zippers on it so nothing ever falls out.
Direct away from face when opening.
I use a flat wallet for my various cards. It's very conspicuous and never annoying to sit on. I keep my bills in a money clip in my front pocket.
Two pieces of advice, and i havent read all posts so this might be redundant. If you have a standard bi or tri fold wallet, its bad for your back to keep it inside your back pocket and sit on it. Second, if you put a rubber band around your wallet it is virtually impossible for a pickpocket to get (this is very common advice given to tourists at mardi gras).
* Cash (enough to bribe^H^H^H^H^Hpay a speeding ticket on the spot)
:)
:-)
* Visa and Mastercard
* coupons
* photos of loved ones
* driver's license
* firearm owner ID card
* university ID card
* university copy/laundry/etc. card
* contact info (names, addrs, phone, etc.)
* logins/passwords
* 1 copy of the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Bill of Rights
* 1 condom (well, I used to have one. I finally got tired of not using it for, uh, let's say a long time and took it out)
So yeah, my wallet is so big and is carried you can't pickpocket me without me noticing it, I'm pretty sure.
I consider my wallet one of the 2 things I need with me at all times (the other being my keys). I try to keep in my wallet what I would need in the event that literally everything in my life went to shit -- all my computers' data destroyed, family killed, etc. Call it the wallet of a survivalist, except I'm missing the credit-card sized knife/multi-purpose tool that I'm sure every *real* survivalist carries.
I have known people who kept shurikens in their wallets. I'd do that too, but the metal detectors cause problems...
Is Capitalism Good for the Poor?
(much cheaper insurance after you get your first "reckless" ticket)
and I love my chained wallet, if yer gonna lose it, you know it sooner..
if I take it out and set it down, I may make a scene (say, at a diner, when I pay, put my wallet down, stand up, and the contents go flying) but I'm gonna notice.....
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
All the posts in this thread about locking your keys in your car leads me to ask one simple question: Why do you put yourself in a situation where you can lock your keys in your car in the first place?
I locked my keys in my car once -- ONCE.
Ever since then, I've locked my car from the outside using the key.
I've never locked my keys in my car since.
I don't understand why anyone, once he/she has been in a similar situation, wouldn't use this simple method of key-locking.
It takes about 1 second longer than the other way, and can save much, much annoyance.
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
I used to give any Canadian Tire money I got to the neighbour's kid, to whom it still seemed exciting. And I always used to give it with the fatherly advice, "Now don't spend it all in one place."
Really it does
> mind you this guy suffers from add
Almost the opposite: I'm very focused, so focused that I often get caught up
in a train of thought and become oblivious to the world around me. Twenty
minutes later, when everyone else has moved on and jumped to new topics several
times since, I'm probably still thinking about it.
In school, I always did very well on written tests but loathed group projects
and sometimes had a problem with "daydreaming" wherein the teacher would have
moved on to a new subject and my mind would be further exploring something
the class had covered earlier.
Once during reading time in third grade I got to the end of the chapter in
the book I was reading, looked up, and the classroom was vacant. "Yes,
Nathan", the teacher said, "the rest of the class went to bathroom break."
While I was reading the book, this had escaped my notice entirely.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
> > two inches by three, 1 month/page, with room to write things on each day
> Huh?
Well, it folds once. And it might be a little larger than that... (measures)
Okay, so it's more like two and a half by three and a half, folded once in the
middle, which makes a month two and a half by seven. Each week is one of the
four columns, so that gives you an inch and three quarters, enough space to
write in a time and the name of an event, such as "9:30am haircut" or whatever.
There's enough space vertically to get two such events on each day. I print
off about six months of it at a time and keep it in a small clear plastic
sleeve (made from Contact paper), and the whole thing is small enough that I
when carry it in my shirt pocket all the time, nobody ever notices it's even
there except when I take it out to look at it or write something in. This IMO
makes it vastly superior to those bulky day planners many people use.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
2 reasons
1) I am extreamly used to hitting the inside button out of habit. Not likely to break it.
2) How do you lock the passenger side door from the driver side, unless you hit the automatic door lock button, or reach across? And if you have many doors?
I've analised the reasons I've locked my keys in the car, usually it's when I park and take a few minutes getting out (i.e., gathering books, going through notes, etc). In those cases, I've turned off the vehicle and left the keys hanging in the ignition. Then I forget to grab them a couple minutes later when I get out. So, now if I'm in a situation where I won't be exiting the car immediately after parking, I put the keys in my pocket right away.
When I'm wearing a suit or blazer, I use a long black leather breast-pocket wallet. It's thin and narrow (the width of credit cards turned sideways), has a clear window pocket where I keep my driver's license & car registration, has a long open slot for paper money, and eight or ten credit-card slots.
If I'm not wearing a suit coat but am going to work, I use a black leather tri-fold wallet that I bought in Florence last spring. It has a clear window in the center fold for my license, three card slots in each of the outside folds for credit cards, my ATM card, my MetroCard, and my PATH card, and a pocket behind the slots where I keep my work ID and a few business cards. The cash pocket tends to make paper money fold up weird, as someone above also noted, but I can deal with that. It folds up nice and small in my back pocket, and fits in my front pocket for when I'm on the subway during rush hour.
If I'm going to the beach or someplace low-rent, I have a bifold nylon wallet with a velcro closure that I got at Eastern Mountain Sports or some place like that. It's sort of oversized, and a really weird green color, but it works fine to carry cash, my license & registration, my ATM card, my MetroCard, and a few credit cards.
...and enough useful stuff for a toolbox. i have some handwritten elvish script (LoTR style) given to me by a friend, some of my own lyrics & uh, poetry, a few sketches for a band logo (metal style, with the big leading & trailing letters), library card, couple of credit cards, a wee bit of cash, lots of subway/deli/coffee discount cards, a bunch of receipts, a prized 2 dollar bill, automobile license, fork lift license, tip card, a bunch of other miscellaneous cards, hiren's boot cd 6.0 on a business card cd (very handy, google it if you haven't seen it), & a tool logic credit card companion. all of this is in a nylon wallet on a chain, with an additional outside pocket that keeps a random inventory of useful stuff. i try to tell myself this is sorta 1337, but it's probably just dorky. ahh well...
> 2) How do you lock the passenger side door from the driver side, unless you hit the automatic door lock button, or reach across? And if you have many doors?
At least in my car (Toyota Camry), double-[un]locking either front door [un]locks all the doors.
if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence / freedom of expression doesn't make it alright
What you want is the Pocket Vault by Chameleon Network. It was covered in March in this Slashdot story. It is not available yet, but they are taking preorders. It is $179 with a 25% preorder discount. They said in March 2004 that it should be available in January 2005, but who knows...
From the website:
The Pocket Vault System replaces a consumer's conventional wallet and stores an entire wallet's contents in digital form (credit, ATM, identification, physical and network access, membership, discount cards), in a stand-alone device or integrated into PDAs and mobile phones. The Pocket Vault programs a single, "morphing" Chameleon Card to emulate the characteristics of any magnetic stripe, barcode or smart card that the user selects. The Pocket Vault and Chameleon Card are useable everywhere (brick & mortar and online), and are completely compatible with all existing point-of-sale terminals.
The Pocket Vault has an integrated fingerprint reader to protect the owner's personal data and the Chameleon Card is blank until programmed and self-erases after 15 minutes - reducing the issues of card or device theft.
The Pocket Vault connects to the Pocket Vault System via the Internet (and will synchronize wirelessly in later versions)...
...for legitmate ID just to get a store card? I have two of them currently, neither one has any sort of real info connected to it. Maybe some places require that, I just haven't seen it. I treat them like online registration just to read some article,ie, give em nonsense. I like Fred Ziffle (from greenacres) myself, go ahead and use him, he's registered at a lot of grocery stores now and maybe several dozen radio shacks. He used to live at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, but he moved, use 1313 mockingbird lane (the munsters), any nearby city.
Ya, I agree it would be nice if they didn't use them, but most stores have them now and unfortunately they are sometimes worth a few bucks a visit, good to pay the gas in the car with.
I can't use the keychain cards, they get smashed too easy on me, stuck with the hip stuffers.
So far the only thing different in the wallet from most of the guys here I have, is I carry two coins, one gold, one silver, to always remind me what real money is supposed to be.
In my car, locking or unlocking the driver-side door with the key locks or unlocks all other doors.
(The driver-side lock knob does the same thing.)
I doubt that I would buy a car that doesn't do this, but if I had to use a car not so equipped (say, a rental), I would probably lock the other doors from the inside, then get out of the driver side and use the key.
My Father's car has one of those buttons that you press to lock all of the doors, but it's broken for the driver's door.
That suits me just fine; I would consider this to be the ideal locking arrangement.
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana