Who still owns a wallet/purse?

[sevenfourate]

Useful for keeping notes

…..like: the “Need bread and milk” sort ?

 

[Dan Lotus]

I have a wallet or two, but like a few people on here, they tend to be more storage for important cards.
I use a virtual wallet for my payment cards, including debit (No cost transactions abroad) and have all relevant loyalty cards, library card on there etc etc - uber convenient, and one less thing to keep a track of, or have to find when lost.

One thing I only tried once, but couldn't get to work, was using the virtual debit card to get money out of a hole in the wall.
Looking it up again now, it appear my bank, FD, do not support it, so that would be why.

Other things I very much like the virtual wallet for are:
Train tickets
Flight boarding passes
Concert tickets

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Deep pockets and short arms

He didn't have short arms when he hit us for being utterly charming wee idiots. 😆

 

[MontyVeda]

After loosing my debit card last week, i had to dig my wallet because i was using cash until the replacement card arrived. But generally speaking, no, I don't use a wallet. It would be daft since there's only one card i carry and i tend not to use cash these days... so just carry the card.

I stopped using a wallet in 1999 after losing it one payday. In those days i was paid cash weekly, so lost a week's wages and my bank card. Keeping cash in one pocket and card in the other means I'm less likely to lose both at once.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

sometimes go out locally without my phone

You think that daring? I used to do that nearly all the time in the 70,80,90,00,10s pretty much. Now going out without the phone is only 5 days a week.

 

[Exlaser2]

Never owned a purse . But I still have a Wallet with credit cards , credit card, cycling uk card , driving licence and £20 in it .
Loyalty cards of all kinds are mostly on my phone.
I don’t use my phone for credit / debit transactions as history has taught me I am must more likely to lose my phone, than I am my wallet. 😀
( I do internet banking just not on tech I am carrying around with me all the time ).

 

[Drago]

Never owned a purse .

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SdYGIrBL6Cg&pp=ygUhYmxhY2thZGRlciB5b3UgaGF2ZSBhIHdvbWFuIHB1cnNl

 

[PaulSB]

I still have one. All my physical cards live in it..........in a drawer in my bedside cabinet. Everything is in Google Wallet.

 

[a.twiddler]

You think that daring? I used to do that nearly all the time in the 70,80,90,00,10s pretty much. Now going out without the phone is only 5 days a week.

Maybe I've still got the embedded idea that use of the phone was for a special occasion, from the rarity value of even a house phone during most of my life. I suppose that I went out without a phone from the 1950s, and didn't even have a house phone until the late 70s. (I expect that some even older fogey will top that now!). Going out without your phone in them thar days used to be called...just going out!

Even when we had a Motorola Brick in the 90s it felt as if there should be a fanfare of trumpets when you extended that aerial and announced that you were going to ring someone. Absolutely amazing that you're going to connect to a series of multi million dollar satellites nowadays to send someone a picture of your dinner. Where's the Gravitas in that? I don't suppose even declarations of war, famine, pestilence and death were made until after 6 and at weekends ('cos that's the time to phone your friends) and even enemies, if you wanted cheap rate calls back then.

Straying a bit off topic there. My wallet is allegedly proof against scrotes scanning your cards so there's some technology there, if it actually works.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I don't have a wallet or purse, everything is on my phone.
I do have a slim cardholder, where I keep my bus pass in case the bike breaks down during the commute.
I don't think the OAP pass is available on Google wallet, but I might be wrong.
I also keep a physical card in this cardholder, in case of phone/till malfunctions, and my driving license for ID should I need it.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Maybe I've still got the embedded idea that use of the phone was for a special occasion

I think it is the modern idea that if you go out, and something happens; what will you do without a phone? 😱 But truth is, “something happening that incapacitates you” and “No one around to help” are extremely rare combinations. In fact you are better off having a wallet on you with your details, a person to contact, and any medication needs.

Meanwhile the zombies and out and about.

 

[Oldhippy]

Absolutely, had the same ones for years. Cash, English Heritage, Cycling UK cards and my card for getting cash out. Personally, I'd never put any of it on my phone, I like the physical thing.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I have a wallet. It looks an awful lot like that! Despite having a purge of old receipts etc from time to time, it weighs more than i would like. Could it be considered as an offensive weapon?

Well, put it this way, it makes a nice bulge in my trousers, albeit in the wrong place! 😆

I'll probably replace it with something better when it eventually wears out
as yes, it is a bit bulky, I wont deny.

I also have a wristwatch, and sometimes go out locally without my phone, which some may consider to be very daring.

Ooohhh!! That's dangerous talk!!

Even when we had a Motorola Brick in the 90s it felt as if there should be a fanfare of trumpets when you extended that aerial and announced that you were going to ring someone.

I remember the days when if you even had a chordless phone then you must have been some sort of film star or similar.

I also remember a story from a guy who got to borrow a mobile from work in the '80s' and he thought he was 'IT'.
He was off on a trip and phoned his wife from the airport on it just to tell her specially that he wasn't calling from a pay phone and that he was walking around the shops, etc.
Utterly groundbreaking!

It was a big thing, but now you would just think

"Awww, bless!" 😆

Absolutely amazing that you're going to connect to a series of multi million dollar satellites nowadays to send someone a picture of your dinner.

Err... My dinner. A glorified steak and chips! 😆:

Where's the Gravitas in that? I don't suppose even declarations of war, famine, pestilence and death were made until after 6 and at weekends ('cos that's the time to phone your friends) and even enemies, if you wanted cheap rate calls back then.

Yeah, there is a time of day for war, isn't there?

 

[the_mikey]

I have a wallet for cards mostly, at the moment there's two five pound notes in it, they'll be there for a long time.

Which cards you might ask? Nectar card for scanning at the petrol station, driving license, bank debit card, and a Cycling UK card.
Do I use my phone for payments? No, I spend far too much time in bits of the country that have no mobile service whatsoever, often in Wales, and I'm quite prone to dropping and smashing phones, usually when prizing the stupid thing out of my pocket.

 

[Jenkins]

Only for carrying debit cards and store cards and only ever carried when visiting more than one shop and using different cards to pay at different shops to save scrolling through the digital wallet and card payment options on the phone. Almost never carry cash.

I also have a smaller card wallet to hold the senior railcard and any paper tickets issued.

Own and use one. Useful for keeping notes and cards in, innit?

…..like: the “Need bread and milk” sort ?

The card slots are quite handy to hold the shopping list rather than it getting crumpled loose in a pocket

Yes I do still hand write a shopping list on a scrap of paper.