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>> No. 6715 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 10:46 am
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Is a wallet necessary these days?

I very rarely carry cash and I'm starting to think a wallet is too cumbersome for what I'd need it for. I'm fairly certain a card holder with slots for my bank card, driving licence and probably my National Trust membership would be suitable for at least 90% of the time I'm out of my house.

I could probably take this a step further and download something like Google Wallet, store my card details on there and slot any cards I'd need into the back of my phone case to try travel even lighter.
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>> No. 6716 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 11:29 am
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During the pandemic I started wrapping my mask around my card and taking that. Since then I've started taking only a loose card. I definitely like physical cash on some basic level, but what am I going to do? I can't turn back to tide and I'm not rich enough to carry a roll of notes and tell cashiers to "keep the change" whenever I buy something so I don't wind up jingle-jangling like I'm in full plate mail.
>> No. 6717 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 11:48 am
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I bought a £120 full-featured Porsche Design leather wallet on a whim to reward myself. That was seven years ago. It's still going strong. I'm old fashioned and I still think a man needs a proper wallet. And I'd buy another one just like it if I lost it or if it started falling apart.
>> No. 6718 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 11:59 am
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I've got a tatty old Motorhead wallet that I've had since I was about 17. It used to have a chain on it but that's long since come off, and the studs no longer fasten either.

I almost never carry cash anymore, like anyone else, but I do like having the heft of a wallet, even if it only has a couple of cards and my driving license in. It's more reassuring to me that I can always feel it in my pocket, and I'd know if it slipped out or somebody tried to nick it.
>> No. 6719 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 12:08 pm
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>>6717
I don't know if I could have a Porsche wallet unless I actually had a Porsche car, but even then that might be a bit much for me.
>> No. 6720 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 12:42 pm
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>>6719

It's Porsche Design, not Porsche. There's a difference. The Porsche Design studio is a subsidiary of Porsche, but it uses its own distinct logo that looks nothing like the Porsche badge. They're more focused on making luxury accessories in line with German design traditions than on promoting Porsche as a marque.

https://www.porsche-design.com/gb/en/sytesearch/?query=wallet&from=0&filters=%7B%7D
>> No. 6721 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 12:50 pm
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I use a card holder similar to the one pictured. I don't like the idea of keeping my cards in my phone case. Losing your phone or your cards is a nuisance, but losing your phone and your cards is a disaster.
>> No. 6722 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 1:02 pm
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>>6715
For about the past decade I've survived on the three-panel rail ticket holders. You'll get half a dozen cards in it at least, and it's very compact. I got one with a season ticket and even years after not needing a season ticket I can still generally get a replacement at a station no questions asked, and the one time questions were asked I just tried a different window.
>> No. 6723 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 1:07 pm
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I mainly use a 17 year old mulberry wallet my first gf got me.

>>6720

Soy wallet? Nice try, I will NOT be eating any bugs.

>>6722

>For about the past decade I've not had sex

FTFY
>> No. 6724 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 1:26 pm
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>>6720
It's literally the same font they use on their cars?
>> No. 6725 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 2:16 pm
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I rarely carry a wallet these days, I have some emergency cash on me but normal transactions are done with my phone. Driving license is in the glove box, I look (and am) old enough that no one asks for ID anymore, so no rail card either.
>> No. 6726 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 2:36 pm
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>>6724

Yes, as I said they're a full Porsche subsidiary, so naturally they're not going to distance themselves entirely from their parent company. But the PORSCHE DESIGN font logo is still materially different from the Porsche escutcheon, no?

I didn't go into the shop that day with my mind set on a Porsche Design wallet. It just made the best impression among all the other upmarket/designer wallets they had there in my intended price range.
>> No. 6727 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 2:44 pm
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It's the same font they have on their cars. They have cars in their shops. If I saw a Porsche wallet I'd think "Porsche wanker".

I have no idea what your point is. You've gone from saying they have their own distinct style to WeLl ThEy DoN't UsE tHe BaDgE! because everything else is the same.
>> No. 6728 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 3:16 pm
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>>6727

>If I saw a Porsche wallet I'd think "Porsche wanker".

Maybe that's the real problem here. Why can't somebody just buy a Porsche Design wallet because they like how it looks and feels, without you making superficial assumptions about them. Nobody's going to ask your permission, so why pretend that they should.


>You've gone from saying they have their own distinct style to WeLl ThEy DoN't UsE tHe BaDgE! because everything else is the same

I haven't gone from anything to anything. And they do have their distinct style, and it isn't undone by placing an actual Porsche in one of their own shops.

Which isn't where I bought my wallet, btw. A lot of high street leather goods shops have Porsche Design wallets next to all manner of other luxury brands.
>> No. 6729 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 3:37 pm
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Think of the five men you spend the most time with - family, co workers, lovers, whatever. And then try to remember what their wallet looks like. I am struggling to remember what brand my own wallet is. My closet friends, I'm pretty sure it has a zip - that's all I've got.

My point is that if I knew someone with a Porsche wallet, I'd have already forgotten.
>> No. 6730 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 3:56 pm
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>>6729

Run that by >>6727 lad maybe.

He seems like the kind of guy, if he read in the paper one day that I got tragically run over by a car, he'd say "Yes, but he had a Porsche Design wallet... A PORSCHE DESIGN WALLET!!".
>> No. 6731 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 4:10 pm
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>>6730
If you start a post about your wallet by mentioning how much it cost then people might think you're rather insecure. You're doing little to dispel this notion.
>> No. 6732 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 4:17 pm
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>>6731

Not everything is a flex, you know.
>> No. 6733 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 4:22 pm
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>>6732
Granted, but if I heard someone say "I spent £120 on a Porsche Design wallet. Rather than simply trading off of the Porsche marque they are focused on making luxury accessories in line with German design traditions. They were my wallet of choice out of all the upmarket brands I perused." then I'd think they had disappeared up their own arsehole.
>> No. 6734 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 5:30 pm
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You lot are being especially anal today. Did your missues refuse to have sex with you last night or summat? It's not often we have a cunt off this tedious that I didn't start, so I am quite impressed.
>> No. 6735 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 6:36 pm
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>>6734

Our cycles have synchronised.
>> No. 6736 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 6:43 pm
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If your wallet isn't a big chunky fucker how will you know if it's fallen out of your pocket?
>> No. 6737 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 7:33 pm
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>>6734
Did I imagine it or did we used to have a song about being the cunt-off starter, the twisted cunt-off starter?
>> No. 6738 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 7:41 pm
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>>6737

Perhaps.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3GSDn0zRJg
>> No. 6739 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 8:26 pm
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I don't think you should spend £120 on a wallet. You should spend £20 on a wallet and keep £100 in it for emergencies.
>> No. 6740 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 8:33 pm
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>>6739

Have you seen £20 wallets.
>> No. 6741 Anonymous
16th October 2022
Sunday 9:09 pm
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>>6739
But if you spend £120 on a wallet you can get overly defensive when people say they don't like it.
>> No. 6742 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 1:26 am
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I still have a wallet, because I reject change at all times. It still usually has ~£10-£20 cash in it, plus change, at any time, as well as all my cards. Like >>6721 said, I really don't want to have everything of mine in one place so it can be lost, stolen, or thrown at the face of someone who considers themselves a wallet connoisseur. I do pay contactless for things over 90% of the time, but I make a point to replace the cash in my wallet and spend the old cash at least once a month.

There are phone apps that can be used for everything a wallet does, but if they don't work, you look like a dick and I will post here about what a twat you are as you vacuously wave your iPhone over and over again at the ticket inspector on the train with a look of tragic bafflement on your idiotic face.
>> No. 6743 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 1:01 pm
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>>6742

>There are phone apps that can be used for everything a wallet does, but if they don't work, you look like a dick and I will post here about what a twat you are as you vacuously wave your iPhone over and over again at the ticket inspector on the train with a look of tragic bafflement on your idiotic face.


A lot of people are unaware how much their life depends on their smartphone functioning correctly at all times.

It's the same reason I still keep a UK and Europe road atlas in my car. What are you going to do if your phone or dedicated sat nav device for some reason fails. And I also always take the complete Collins guide with me when I go mushroom foraging, because often enough, in the middle of a forest, you have no Internet reception and you can't look mushrooms up online.
>> No. 6744 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 1:47 pm
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>>6743

>What are you going to do if your phone or dedicated sat nav device for some reason fails.

In fairness I think it's pretty hard to get properly lost in this country. The road signs are pretty comprehensive, and failing that you only have to ask a local for a general idea of therigh.t direction and you'll probably be back on track fairly soon.

What I sometimes like to do is use the satnav on my way somewhere, and then try make my way back just using road signs and intuition. Most places you only have to follow the signs back to the motorway network and then you're home free.

It's a bit like that game where you go on a random Wikipedia page and try to find your way to Hitler in under five clicks.
>> No. 6745 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 2:00 pm
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>>6743
The last time my girlfriend used a paper map she tried using her fingers to zoom in on it.
>> No. 6746 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 2:55 pm
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>>6744
In this country, maybe. In others, not so much. Lots of places in Europe have questionable signage. It's a bit of a running joke at this point that road signs in Ireland are aimed at people who already know where they're going. They're mostly there as reassurance that the NRA and the council haven't rebuilt anything in the couple of weeks since you last passed through.
>> No. 6747 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 3:37 pm
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>>6746

The worst I've seen was rural northern France when we were on holiday in the Etretat region. This was before I had sat nav, mind. Road signage was piss poor, to the point that it was often almost impossible to get to a place two towns over from wherever you were at that time, even with a paper map. They also didn't bother announcing closed roads or road maintenance in a meaningful way before you actually got there and then found out you hade to turn around and drive two miles back to the last junction. Also, you couldn't expect helpful detour signage to prevent that sort of thing from happening in the first place. It was likely to get you lost even worse.

Another thing in rural France is extremely poor service station coverage. I think that hasn't changed much in the last ten to twelve years. I know the country is considerably larger and more rural than many parts of Britain, but if you're low on fuel at night and you have no idea where the next station is, then you're absolutely fucked. There tend to be very few small town service stations, many of them close at 8pm, and the majority are concentrated along the motorways, but even they can be too far spaced apart for you to make it without running out of petrol. A local told us that that's why French people always make sure they've got enough fuel to travel at least another 100 kilometres. Going somewhere almost on the last drop assuming there's bound to be a station on the way within the next ten miles is something that would seem pretty foolish to a French person.
>> No. 6748 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 5:46 pm
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>>6740

Yeah, they're fine. I've checked, mines Ralph Lauren and cost me around twenty quid from Debenhams, and it's perfectly intact after what must be at least three years of use.
>> No. 6749 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 7:36 pm
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>>6748

>and it's perfectly intact after what must be at least three years of use.

Guess it depends on what you put it through. I've had ones roughly in that price range that fell apart after little more than a year.

I did buy a leather one at a bazar in Morocco once that was unbranded and cost me something like fifteen to twenty quid. It was indestructible. But Morocco is world famous for its leather industry, and when you buy leather souvenirs there, it's kind of hard to find something really shit. Even the £10 leather belt I bought there survived well over ten years of daily use.
>> No. 6750 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 7:54 pm
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>>6749

>Guess it depends on what you put it through.

I don't know what you imagine the upper and lower limits on wallet fatigue are. I'm not chucking it out of moving cars several times a day but it also is used constantly and in my pocket in an active job for twelve hours a day.
>> No. 6751 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 8:25 pm
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>>6740

Mine can't have been more than a fiver and I've had it about fourteen years.
>> No. 6847 Anonymous
29th August 2023
Tuesday 6:54 pm
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Are Ridge/Aviator style wallets any good? I've been using a cheap unlicensed Jojo's Bizarre Adventure wallet for three years and it's barely holding itself together. Those minimalist metal wallets look cool. Both Ridge and Aviator have lifetime guarantees (as they should considering they cost £100+), and as I only have about 6-7 cards in regular use I'm not too bothered about lack of space. My main reservation is using an elastic strap or money clip for my bills. Not that I have loads of bills at any given time, but maybe I'll miss the bill section of a conventional wallet. Both sell replacement parts on their sites so you can self repair, which is also a plus.
>> No. 6848 Anonymous
29th August 2023
Tuesday 8:50 pm
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>>6847
They're called notes, and where will you put your receipts and bus tickets if you don't have somewhere to put your banknotes?
>> No. 6849 Anonymous
29th August 2023
Tuesday 9:03 pm
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>>6848

Them younguns no longer bother with any of that. They've got Apple Pay now.

Spoiled, the lot of them.
>> No. 6850 Anonymous
30th August 2023
Wednesday 12:36 am
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>>6847

I might be making assumptions about the average britfagian, but the reason I've never bought one is because I don't know where else I would keep a condom, drugs, or receipts for expenses. I try not to keep notes and coins go straight in the ashtray in the car, but the other essentials I wouldn't want floating around in my pocket.

Plus even a shite leather wallet lasts me about three to five years.

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