Comments on: Trim your wallet

By: Drew Friestedt

Drew Friestedt — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:23:13 +0000

Looks like a cool little wallet. I used to roll with a big fat wallet. Then I transitioned to a rubber band wallet, which helped but kept breaking. I now use a Bandit Wallet – http://www.banditwallet.com which I happened to invent.

The Bandit is a durable elastic band made of fabric that is smooth on the outside and rubber on the inside. It’s great for a few cards / cash or a great big wad!

By: dtj

dtj — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:08:49 +0000

When he was young, we kept pictures of our son in our wallet in the event he got lost. Having people search for a blonde haired, blue eyed boy in MN is not exactly distinctive. Now I keep pictures of my wife and our son to show to people.

I also keep an emergency $50 in my wallet. Works nicely because it doesn’t feel right to break a $50 for some day to day thing.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:56:59 +0000

Thanks for the review. Just wanted to let all you know about our new website: Super Slimmy. It's the official site of the Slimmy wallet.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:49:11 +0000

does anyone have any coupons for these?

By: james

james — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:45:49 +0000

I keep extra (non-credit) cards together with one money-band in my glove box (locked) and my vitals with me + cash with another money-band

By: Pauline

Pauline — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:58:03 +0000

Where do those of us without cars keep all the extra cards?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:21:59 +0000

I keep my favourite photos on my iPod.

And as for membership cards and so on: If you have a decent phone, you can scan them and put ‘em on there. Everytime you need the card, just open the image and show it. There was some blog post a while ago about a guy who used his iPhone to do just that – and even scanning scanned barcodes was no problem. Worth a try.

By: Emma

Emma — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:05:53 +0000

I scanned all my cards into my computer, saved them as individual jpegs and saved them as a photo album…

they are now all on my iphone! including drivers license as that one is expensive to replace should i lose my purse…

By: Khürt Williams

Khürt Williams — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:22:24 +0000

A wallet with a clip ( to coral the cash ), and two pockets. Drivers license, ATM card, one credit card, AAA, medical insurance. That’s all the wallet contains.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:58:56 +0000

As far as the “Buy 12 get the 13th free cards” and such, those can just be kept in your car or at your cubicle–whatever works for you. So when you’re about to get a haircut or go out to eat, you can grab the card on your way.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:13:08 +0000

Funny that you’re attempting to de-clutter your wallet when companies like this:

http://www.touchofginger.com/c.....allet.html

are creating more things (essentials?) to ADD to your wallet. Maybe it’s just me, but most of these items seem very uni-purpose.

By: sp

sp — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:17:31 +0000

Wish I had seen Tim’s comment sooner – the Koyono coupon code he mentioned expired on 11-15-2007. Does anyone know of a current one?

By: Doug Hughes

Doug Hughes — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:01:38 +0000

Personally, I use a hair-tie. That’s it. One of those standard ponytail ones. I keep my various credit cards, insurance cards, license and such in it. In perhaps 10 years I’ve never needed anything more. I did miss carrying photos around for a while, but got over it. Now a days I have a nice set of photos on my phone to show off.

By: black rabbit

black rabbit — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:15:54 +0000

I’ve got a single money clip with my ATM card, license, health insurance card, and cash. The credit cards stay home, unless I’m going to need one of them, and the folks at the library are perfectly happy to use my driver’s license in lieu of the library card. The AAA card is in the glove compartment.

I only have a single loyalty card, because I work for a major grocery retailer, and do 90% of my normal shopping at my employer. I don’t carry the physical card, though. At most retailers, the loyalty number is tied to your phone number, and you can usually get the loyalty discount by entering your phone number in the PIN pad.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:10:51 +0000

I only carry cash and a credit card now. All the others live in a business card case in the car, as someone else said. It felt funny at first, but the only problem I’ve had is putting a card in my purse and forgetting it’s not in the car any more

Drivers License – when else do I need it except in the car? Ditto auto insurance. Store discount cards – I chucked anything I’d used less than 5 times in the last year. Kept the 2 library cards (different library systems, much wider choice) – and once again, I only go there in the car. Photos of family on desktop

The biggest worry is security – I checked my card contracts to check I was ok if they got stolen and charged up a huge bill.