cross-posted from: piefed.blahaj.zone/c/…/valid-point
I’ve never used a wallet. I either put my credit card and ID in my jeans or the small zipped pocket of my purse. 2 cards don’t deserve to have their own wallet - what do y’all put in there?
Valid point
Submitted 1 month ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Tja@programming.dev 1 month ago
A few credit cards (used to carry only two, but when one got swallowed by an atm in a foreign country I learned better), a debit card, id card, drivers license, medical insurance card, car key card, bills, coins. Sometimes a few receipts to expense or the odd parking card.
Basically everything is a backup, my phone has all my credit and debit cards and my car key, but I still carry the wallet just in case: phone dead, traffic stop, sick, etc.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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wieson@feddit.org 1 month ago
Bank card, personal id, driving licence, health insurance card, blood donor card, bone marrow donor card, business cards I receive and forget, cash, parking ticket (from the till not from the cops)
Twig@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Cash
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I try to pay everything with credit cards because it makes budgeting super easy for me. I haven’t used cash in 15+ years.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I haven’t thought about it but really my wallet serves one purpose these days. To carry a small amount of cards like debit, credit, rewards cards, insurance, etc but is really only used if tap to pay isn’t available. If I have cash, it’s for a reason.
Back in the 2000s I used to carry a money clip til the spring broke on me and I lost $300ish. That was back when I carried cash almost exclusively and when that amount of money could absolutely break me financially.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
How did the spring breaking make you lose the $300? Were you holding it over niagara falls when it broke?
BeUnique@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Nah it didn’t break completely, just was no longer clamped as tight. Cash fell out of the middle of the folded stack into my pocket. At some point over a few days I noticed loose cash in my pocket, counted, and realized I had money missing. Since it was loose who knows when it fell out of my pocket. I tried to retrace my steps but had no luck. Yes I had been wearing the same jeans and not emptying them at night don’t judge me!
Back then I’d cash my paycheck and carry it around in a money clip like the dumbass kid that I was. Fortunately I never got robbed.
merrickal@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Some phone cases have an attached pocket. Barely holds 2 cards, but it’s probably enough to slip in a student ID, travel pass and squeeze in an emergency note (money).
I find that very lope sided as I prefer to have a balance of stuff on both sides of my trouser pockets.
Tilgare@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well the fun bonus effect with those is that if you lose your phone, you’ve lost literally everything.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Finally someone mentions the importance of the wallet as a counterweight
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
How exactly does that work? Unless your state/province has a digital ID, you need to carry at least that around. Then you gotta keep some cash for the odd place that doesn’t do credit because they’re in the Stone Age. I also keep a card for those places that don’t do tap, because of course they exist.
Krzd@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Some people just straight up don’t carry cash, so it’s only 2 cards that most people need in their day to day, which fit in your phone case ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Where else am I supposed to keep my moths?
gmtom@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve literally never owned a wallet and don’t know many people who do actually have one
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do you just have to remember to grab things whenever you go out? I can use my phone for most payments, but not everything. There’s several things I need regularly in my wallet: driver’s license, some cash, credit card, health insurance card, work ID (doors have scanners), punch cards for our local taco, boba, and ice cream place, grocery store/cvs discount card, and some other things I use less often. If I only had one of those phone cases, I could bring like 3 of the cards, but then my phone would be even bigger in my pocket.
curiousaur@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Go out? That’s another millennial thing.
gmtom@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The only card I have that I need to take with me is my work pass. Everything else is on my phone, debit and credit cards, train card, loyalty cards. I haven’t needed a physical card for anything other than work since COVID.
Evotech@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can use my phone for literally all payments. Even kids selling lemonade on the side of the street.
We have digital driver’s licenses, health insurance is just tied to your person.
I bring my lanyard with access card to the office though
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 month ago
[off topic]
It’s a good idea to keep some cash on hand at home. If there’s a blackout you’ll want paper money.
potpotato@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If there’s a blackout, most stores won’t be operating.
Fleppensteijn@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
We had a blackout last year. Most stores were still operating. Apparently enough people still carried cash.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 month ago
We had the East Coast blackout in 2004 and Superstorm Sandy.
Stores were open and taking cash.
dil@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Every single person I know has a wallet, im 26
nightlily@leminal.space 1 month ago
Or they’re German.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I’m in my mid 30s and I haven’t carried a wallet in about 6 years. I switched to a phone case with a slot for IDs. Then 3 years ago I dropped that and only carry my phones. My ID stays in my tool bag since it goes with me everywhere I need it. However I don’t even bother carrying it when I’m out and not driving. I just with my dam province would implement a proper digital ID.
Demdaru@lemmy.world 1 month ago
…i have a wallet. One of the band ones, for cards only. Obsessed with having my cards (id, club and pay ones) with me at all times, but hate coins and bills with all my heart. As soon as I could drop 'em, I did.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
I don’t have a wallet, I knew I was young at heart
Evotech@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Millenial here. While I technically have a wallet (card holder) i don’t bring it with me. Ama
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do you eat the cauliflower or the broccoli first in a bag of mixed. Also do you eat one before the other because you want to save the best for last, or you eat it first because you enjoy it more and want it hot?
Evotech@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes
Quokka@quokk.au 1 month ago
Everytime I see a millennial thing, I feel like I should have been born gen-z. How do I not relate my generation so much?
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Because categorizing entire behaviors and tendencies based on birth year is never really that accurate, let alone remotely monolithic
cosmos8188@leminal.space 1 month ago
Generation classifications are as accurate as astrology - both are pseudoscience and have no basis. They can be used “just for fun”, but the issues is that such classifications have solidified within society as the truth.
Its really a thing that’s based on huge inconsistent assumptions.
Quokka@quokk.au 1 month ago
Yeah but like I’m a Scorpio, so I’m generic thing a lot of people relate to at times and if you mess with me I’m generic thing a lot of people relate to at times.
So really astrology checks out, y’know?
Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Debt do does what it will and won’t do, so I don’t, and that’s why I don’t pay my taxes. Also, in other news, I cost taxes.
Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I thought it was crossbody bags and side partings that gave us away?
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 month ago
Oh crap, has the side part came back too? I used to hate my mom brushing my hair like that when it looked too messy for her… That being said I do miss my mom and would probably wear my hair like that if it would bring her back.
Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I don’t think it ever left… Its not popular with Gen Z that’s for sure but I love my side parting! Give it a go for her.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I still have a wallet in there to keep my IDs and important cards
Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Well yeah, gotta have a nice purse, its too useful, didn’t mean it as a separate thing just that apparently crossbodies are apparently a very millennial thing…