way OT: what type of wallet do you use?

When I first moved to NYC I started carrying my wallet in my front left pocket.  Initially, I was overly cautious of potential pick-pockets.  But after I got into the flow, I just decided to keep it there.  I carry a shoulder bag everywhere I go so I have more room for keys etc...Don't call it a purse.  It's a NYC thang.

Plus, on occasion, the wallet in the left pocket creates the image of a much larger bulge.  That helps when you are trying to impress a girl who likes guys with bulges that look like wallets.

Keys and Swiss Army knife in left pocket, wallet and phone in right pocket (sometimes I put my phone in that extra small pocket above the main one on the right side, the one meant for pocketwatches). I can't stand the idea of sitting on my wallet, and I figure it makes me ever so slightly less likely to be pickpocketed. My wallet is leather, but is thinner than the one pictured for comparison on the All-Ett site. I might have to look into that wallet, though... although my current one also has plastic pages inside of it for pictures, etc. I keep my driver's license in it so if I have to show ID (like when using a credit card) I don't have to pull the ID out.

I carry my keys and my knife in my right front pocket, my wallet in my left back pocket, and my lucky quarter in my left front pocket.

I don't have a cell phone (if I did, I'd clip it on my belt - I don't care if that supposedly looks bad), and I lost my knife, so I haven't been particularly weighed down lately. I also try not to overload my wallet with receipts or anything else that really doesn't need to be in there, and try to keep it as thin as possible. Another thing is I don't carry much loose change, if any - which really helps maximise pocket space.

 

I carry a Pulp Fiction wallet which can be found here:

http://www.bmfwallets.com

a cheap fossil front pocket wallet. I usually throw it in my bag, or my right front pocket. I hate having stuff in my pockets; so usually it's on my desk while I'm working.  

of the money clip/card holder.  No bulk and easy to keep track of.  I haven't carried a traditional wallet in 10 years.

front pocket wallet as well.  I guess it's actually a suit wallet (money clip on one side with credit card slots in the middle and on the other).

It's very small, so it works well.

My system (I should state that I'm a lefty):
Left pocket: Keys & work phone
Right pocket: Wallet & personal phone
Back pockets: Random things, but usually receipts

This is basically what I have....I like it cause it's VERY thin.

http://www.fossil.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=12052&catal ogId=10052&categoryId=30015&parent_category_rn=30001&productId=1002641&Ne=29&N=4 294959850&No=12

a wallet minimalist.  I replaced my George Costanza wallet with the Big Skinny:  http://www.bigskinny.net/

I had a sciatic nerve issue from my big wallet and the Big Skinny has made all the difference.

I've had it about 2 years now and it still works great.  The trick is to only keep what's essential.  I use a business card holder for everything else - and keep it at home.  If I'm going to Costco, I grab the Costco card, if I'm going to Kohl's, grab the Kohl's card.  Otherwise my Big Skinny consists of my ID, 2 credit cards, 1 debit card, gym membership, and some cash.  Less is more.

My system:
left pocket - keys
right pocket - cell phone, chapstick, and a tiny bottle of Purell (I'm a germophobe)
back right pocket - wallet

if it causes back problems?  And I'm having a very difficult time imagining what kind of posture would actually result in this problem.  I keep my wallet in my left back pocket and it never impinges on my posture.  Maybe you just need shallower pockets or plastic surgery on your butt.

I carry a big damn wallet in my back right pocket, which includes my business cards, others' cards, cash, credit cards, ID, hunter's safety card, fishing license, insurance card, pages ripped from a phone book just for the hell of it, etc.

Front pockets vary. Keys are always front right. The rest is knife, carmex, blackberry (unless in a jacket pocket) and chew (relax - they're Bandits; I'm health conscious). Phone on the belt, not because I like it there but because it's always on vibrate and that's the only way I'll always notice it "ringing."

Not to get even more offtopic but i noticed a lot of you guys carry knives. Most people i know seem to think it's a little odd that i usually carry one.

Front left pocket, at work its a swiss army because thats not intimidating to people. When i'm out and about it's usually a benchmade or a spyderco.

and never looked back.

I go with the bifold, slim wallet that holds a few cards and has a money clip (that never gets used b/c I never carry cash) on the outside.

front left pocket: wallet
front right pocket: keys and cell

Although once I get to work I unload everthing but my cell.

have such developed systems.  I'm not surprised though, most men are like that...

I just use a standard bi-fold wallet, it's a lot thinner than ones I've had in the past, it doesn't have any flaps for pictures, or the flap for the drivers license.  On a personal note... those flaps for the drivers license, with the plastic/clear cover suck ass!  One of those ruined my old drivers license, just rubbed all of the ink off, my picture was ghosted into the plastic, you could seriously still see my face after I took the license out.

At any rate, I typically keep some cash, receipts, checks to be deposited, credit and debit cards, license, student ID (which is a debit card), some business cards which is stupid... and other store cards... blockbuster, albertsons, supercuts, etc.

I used a money clip that had the flat side for cash, and the thin pocket for cards when I was in high school for a couple of years.  But the one I had back then was one of the really crappy generic men's gift ones, so it wasn't all that special.

But yeah, my system...

Back Right Pocket:  Wallet
Front Left Pocket: Keys and Change
Front Right Pocket: Cell Phone, Pen, USB Flash Drive

Giant wallet in my front left pocket (it wouldn't fit in my back pocket).

Keys and Blackberry in my front right pocket.

Nothing in my back pockets.

Left pocket: Cell phone and Zune
Right pocket: Keys and wallet

Yep, that's about it.

I use a giant George Costanza wallet and it goes in my right back pocket. Call me a neanderthal.

After reading this thread, I will probably switch to the BMF wallet. Now that's fashion.

...not that there's anything wrong with that.

Anybody have any tips on how to protect your debit/credit card from getting worn out so quickly?

My debit card is less than a year old and already it has trouble swiping at some stores. Some people have told me that it has something to do w/ my wallet or how I put it in my wallet. Anybody have any of the same problems?

I prefer a slim tri-fold with the stand-alone see thru id flap, so when ya go to da club, just whip it out!!! i gotta clean it out once a week for all the receipts and business cards i get.

Quit carrying a wallet in my back pocket when I was around 13(turned 31 4 weeks ago). Too many friends/punks grab it back in school. It goes in the front right pocket at all times. I can barely stand carrying a checkbook in my back right, and there's never anything in the back left (except maybe a girls hand). The front left was used for Copenhagen cans for 16 years, but I quit on my 30th, so now it usually keys or the phone (or smokes & lighter). If I'm wearing a coat/jacket, the phone will be in a pocket somewhere on it.

And when I have one before I lose it, a pocket knife goes straight down next to the wallet. I prefer the Smith & Wesson models with the clip to hook on the pocket. They come from the factory razor-sharp.

Hope this helps!

I am commenting on this subject.  I normally just lurk, but...maybe it's the organizer in me, or maybe it's something I can answer with no chance of someone telling me I am mis-informed :)

WORK
Tri-fold DKNY wallet circa 1990 or so.
DL, library card, ASE card, wallet pics of my daughters.

LF - Thumb drive, chapstick, lighter.
RF - Cigarettes, small flashlight.
LR - Wallet, sometimes comb.
RR - Gerber knife

I won't go into uniform shirt breast pocket, what's hanging around my neck, or off of my belt loops.

OFF TIME
1/2 time wallet, 1/2 time nothing - if possible.

I never carry my credit cards and carry very little carry cash.  (married)

big fat wallet....cha-ching

Anybody here have a conceal/carry permit?

I fold bills over my ID, bank card and subway card.  Front right, barely know it's there.

Last New Year's it came out.  You'd think it'd scatter on contact with the ground.

The finder returned it intact, although my driver's license was gone.  So I switched from Texas DL to New York ID.

-keys in right pocket
-iPhone in left pocket
-wallet in back pocket

Thats me verbatum...

Can't wait...

I hate having stuff in my front pockets.  I want uniformity in the front of my pants and the only bulge to be natural.  So, wallet in my back right pocket.  The fewest number of keys I can get away with in my front right pocket, my palm pilot goes in my back left pocket or a belt clip (I finally broke down, it is my holster of knowledge), a silver dollar and a fifty cent piece in my front left pocket.  The coins are for practicing coin tricks.  I know coin tricks are kind of nerdy, but my son loves them.  I have always felt I would voluntarily be nerdy if it was in entertainment of my children.

Basically, I want to be streamlined.  I can move faster.

I'm a lefty so most of my stuff is reversed from y'all.

Front Left: Keys
Front Right: Cell Phone
Back Right: Wallet

I've got one of those old bifold wallets that has every card I own including blockbuster card, etc.  Lot of it I could probably take out but if I have space, I put them in.  I'm considering trying one of those slim wallets out, possibly even the alltel european one.  I think I cuonted it up and there's 10 cards I probably need to carry and height and width it's about the same size, but my current wallet is lamost an inch thick loaded up.

When I moved to China I had to buy a new wallet, because my sturdy one from America wasn't quite large enough for Chinese Yuan notes which are taller than dollars.  I got one that is leather, has two money slots (so I keep receipts in the back as well as currencies for countries that I travel to outside of China), and Chinese yuan in the front.  I love it.

I'm a wallet in left pocket with phone, keys in right and change in back right.  The back left pocket is reserved for papers or handouts I'm given, and stuff like that which I can fold up and keep in there.  I hate the idea of keeping my wallet in my back pocket simply because it makes sitting uncomfortable.

a European All-Ett wallet last night.  Should probably be here by end of week.  Hopefully it's as good as they say