How fat is your wallet?

[boattail]

Mine is 1 3/8" thick compressed with only two paper bills inside.
Time for a change. I have packed a wallet since I was around 14 or so. I have had nylon and leather wallets over the years and my current wallet is a leather bi-fold that I have had for 25 years. It was custom tooled with my initials for me by a friend. At my age I'm finally starting to have serious issues with my right leg. Pain, burning, numbness, sore muscles, bursitis, etc.

I'm considering a minimalistic wallet to wear in my front pocket. I have looked at all the styles and think I have settled on one that stands out for ease of use and one that will work best for how I need access to it.

I'm very stuck in my ways and giving up the fat leather wallet was never on my mind until I realized it may be crippling me. I usually carry about 8 hard cards, a few business cards, and paper money. The bulk of my wallet is the wallet itself and I always carry a comb behind the wallet that makes it that much fatter. The comb will get dumped as well.

Any other geezers go this route?

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[Nosferatu]

I have an ID, CCW, Credit card wrapped in a rubber band.

 

[boattail]

I took my bare cards and did the rubber band thing to see if I could pull it off and it worked for me so that was the final straw to get something else.

I need to pull my company credit card out every day and being able to pull just one card out with ease was a must.

 

[Knobgoblin]

I have an ID, CCW, Credit card wrapped in a rubber band.

Did this for years.
The new chip style bank cards didn't live long in that environment.

 

[CamoDeafie]

My wallet is so skinny, the UN put it down as requiring food assistance


Edit. Above is a joke.

Reality, it's a Docker wallet with a RFID layer

 

[Knobgoblin]

Been doing front pocket since 4th grade.

Lol
Got pickpocketed in elementary school, and learned a thing or 2.

 

[RVTECH]

Personally I have always found wallets to be an impractical and cumbersome thing to carry AND they can be be detrimental to health in that if one is carried too large it can press against the sciatic nerve and cause back problems.

Kind of an 'old school' , useless thing in this 'day and age'.

 

[AshWilliams]

I've had this for around a decade and it's perfect. It'll probably last me another 10 years as Maxpedition gear is solid.

Micro Wallet (Buy 1 Get 1 Free. Mix and Match in Multiples of 2. All Sales Final.)

Micro™ Wallet Military, CCW, EDC, Everyday Carry, Outdoors, Nature, Hiking, Camping, Police Officer, EMT, Firefighter, Bushcraft, Gear, Travel.

www.maxpedition.com

 

[Nosferatu]

Did this for years.
The new chip style bank cards didn't live long in that environment.

Mine hasn't burned out yet.

I've taken to using my watch most the time at the terminal nowadays.

 

[Knobgoblin]

Mine hasn't burned out yet.

I've taken to using my watch most the time at the terminal nowadays.

I believe, in my case, front pocket and raw cards got that chip bending repeatedly.

 

[TTSX]

This is the most unique way I've ever been asked how poor I am

 

[boattail]

Decades ago when I drove truck full time my wallet would bend all the cards into an unusable shape. I found a little piece of stainless steel to insert next to my cards that kept them from bending. When I stopped driving full time I ditched that metal piece. Now that we are in a different era the need for a wallet goes down some. I used to have a pile of business cards, notes, and odds and ends...before cell phones were a thing.

I was never keen on taking my wallet out when I drove as I would forget it and could not get it back until I got back in the truck the next day.

This is the most unique way I've ever been asked how poor I am

 

[Nosferatu]

This is the most unique way I've ever been asked how poor I am

You're likely not as poor as @MTpockets

 

[Alexx1401]

Many years ago I went with the kind that you can put in a shirt pocket. Of course you can't put a lot of stuff in them. When I have shirts with button pockets carry it there. Other times in left front or on side cargo so I don't have to be sitting on the damn thing. I have run into a surprising number of guys who keep their wallet on the dash or console of the car. Since they don't want to sit on it. This would scare hell out of me. Forget it and it gets stolen it would be a PITA.

 

[Buddy1211]

It's pretty thin…..to many hobby's lol

 

[arakboss]

Fat.

 

[gearhead]

I have a herniated disc which causes sciatic pain. A wallet of any size in the back pocket aggravates that. I started wearing pants from 5.11 and Vertx with pockets at the 4 o'clock position, and have had no issues since.

 

[Knobgoblin]

Fat.

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That's a leather burrito.

 

[titsonritz]

Sometimes it's a George Costanza wallet, which means it's full of receipts and I'm totally broke. Once I take all the crap out of it it's fairly thin (probably just under an inch) but I'm still broke. I use to an old leather trifold, but it gave up the ghost after about 25 years, I've been carrying an OSOE 1000d Cordura trifold, I expect it to last the rest of my life. I rarely carry ut in my back pocket when planning on sitting.

 

[TTSX]

This is a wonderful time to inquire about a hairy calf skin model