What's in your wallet?

@Joe Nation,

actually living near a border, all you needed was a birth certificate to cross into the states (until recently), so most folks i know (knew) carried them regularly

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@Joe Nation,

I would think that she should worry about the carrying around of her social security card then her vague reference to her state produced id card.

To be fair, I just removed my own social security card from my wallet before doing this thread's inventory and placed it into one of my bedroom drawers. I always been meaning not to carry it around with me for security purposes but ended up leaving it in my wallet until I read your thread topic and decided to make my move and change my personal policy on the card.

Checks are so obsolete that banks don't even offer them anymore when you open a new checking account these days.

I used to carry a book of stamps in my wallet but they tend to get unusuably mauled while residing in my wallet so I stopped the practice.

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@Joe Nation,

When I was a boy, in Arizona, I carried one of those moneyclips that u mentioned,
engraved with my initials n with a silver dollar clipped into its side
(it was made to hold a silver $ below the initials) and cash,
but on returning to NY, I knew that u shoud not flash cash,
so I went back to leather wallets.

I have a separate holder for credit cards, etc.
My wallet (vertical leather model) has 8 $100 bills,
4 $50 bills,
48 $20 bills
5 $10 bills

$5s and singles r in my right jacket hip pocket.
This is the Treasury 's new style of cash.
I have a separate compartment for old $$ (before the change)
1 old $50 bill
6 old $20 bills
4 old $10 bills
1 old $5 bill
1 old $1
and an old $10 Gold piece from 1795, the first year of issue any gold from the USA.

There r some pictures of my family from the 1930s - 1950s;
my NRA Life Membership card,
my Mensa card (u can get challenged at the door, depending on where u go)
my AAA card
some licenses, insurance cards n registrations
some postage stamps and old business cards.

There used to be a couple of foil wrapped double edge razorblades,
but thay got intercepted at the airport in Phoenix, Arizona; (that place is meticulous).

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@OmSigDAVID,

ok. we now have a plan.

pickpocket deej, then dave, and head for mexico to party...

as dj with dinero.

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@shewolfnm,

shewolfnm wrote:

my new york metro card
Value club card for hotel rooms
Thai Fresh business card
44cent stamp
ID
(Oh...dont tell anyone about THAT...)
health insurance card
bank card
A receipt
ss card
A check
and 2.00

You carry your social security card around with you?

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@djjd62,

djjd62 wrote:

tim hortons quick card

Are you trying to lure me away from Wally?

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

my AAA card

I didn't know you drank.

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@chai2,

chai2 wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:

my AAA card

I didn't know you drank.

While I 'm waiting for them to arrive with the tow truck, it helps.

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Curious. That's me. I am.
Wondering if there is a purpose or reason for carrying around "old money".
I remember thinking I should collect one of each of the old designs, iron each of them nice and flat and then pin them to wall somewhere inside my apartment.

Joe(but I kept needing cash for the Fresh Direct guys.)Nation

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@chai2,

shewolfnm wrote:

my new york metro card
Value club card for hotel rooms
Thai Fresh business card
44cent stamp
ID
(Oh...dont tell anyone about THAT...)
health insurance card
bank card
A receipt
ss card
A check
and 2.00

chai2 wrote:

You carry your social security card around with you?

Maybe she belonged to the Schutzstaffel ?

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@Joe Nation,

Joe Nation wrote:

Curious. That's me. I am.
Wondering if there is a purpose or reason for carrying around "old money".
I remember thinking I should collect one of each of the old designs,
iron each of them nice and flat and then pin them to wall somewhere inside my apartment.

Joe(but I kept needing cash for the Fresh Direct guys.)Nation

Momentos; links to the past, wherein I spent most of my life (not 1795).

I got an uncut sheet of $1 bills from the Treasury in Washington,
for mounting on the wall.

David

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can someone explain the surprise at carrying your identification on a daily basis

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@djjd62,

djjd62 wrote:

can someone explain the surprise at carrying your identification on a daily basis

U might not need it that day.

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@djjd62,

djjd62 wrote:

can someone explain the surprise at carrying your identification on a daily basis

you mean the ss card?

because with that number, someone could go around opening credit cards, have an easier time access your person info, etc.

Personally, I've only had to show my birth certificate a handful of times in my life. Like when I would get married, or cross the border into Canada (now I guess I'll need a visa) and as far as my social security card, I've only had to show someone the actually card when getting a job (for the I9 form), and a couple of other times I can't even remember.

If I need to identify myself, most people just want to see your drivers license, or if you don't have one, a state ID card with your picture on it.

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ribbed condom
gram of coke
$3,000 cash
fake ID

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@Joe Nation,

Joe Nation wrote:

Moving on past the mysteries of the contents of purses, http://able2know.org/topic/153490-1we now enter the seventh level of Hell, the wallet.

I have seen every kind, from the Costanza model pictured above, to the guy who pulls out the slimmest money clip with a couple of twenties on one side and a single (always American Express) card on the other.
Women not only have purses, they have wallets in their purses, so they should feel free to add their list here.

Here's what to do: Take out your wallet and just list everything that's in it. Don't try to remember because, as you know, both you and I are always finding things in our wallet.
Here's my list:
MetroCard
ATM Card
Amex Card
MasterCard
Driver's License (what a picture!)
Staples Discount Card
AARP Membership Card (why am carrying that?)
Health Insurance Card for a plan I no longer belong to(!!)
MultLock Key Code Card
Zip Car Card
Bloomingdales Gift Card (six months old. I never get to the East Side)
New York Road Runner Membership Card
New York Public Library Card
$11.00 in cash (one Ten and one One)

So now I'm throwing away that Health Plan Card and filing the AARP Card. Thanks.

I have a firm rule against keeping receipts ever since I wrapped a receipt around a credit card. When I went to look for the card I couldn't see it in my wallet EVEN after taking everything out of the wallet.

You guessed it.
.......Called it in, had it canceled, had to open a new account, spent seven days waiting for the new card to arrive and, of course, it arrived exactly one day before I went on vacation.
Panic had consumed me by then. (What everything will go on the AMEX and then I have to pay for it next month/???)

No more paper in the wallet of any kind.
~~There's another story about a piece of paper with the words "Margo, ya ya ya" and a phone number. Just want to say, never go to Oktoberfest without your spouse and then be cleaning out your wallet at the kitchen counter a few days later as said spouse cruises by. Cruises by in the same sense that a bald eagle cruises by a duck pond. Same eyesight.

Joe(no...the ya, ya thing was just a joke about the chorus of one the songs we were singing while standing on top of a table...... No, no, not just Margo and I, um, there were lots of other people... Jenna, Paula and er, a couple of guys.... I don't know why I don't remember THEIR names......)Nation

Debit card
Driving licence
Small change

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@Chumly,

Not for the first time chumly, you have brought a smile to my day.

although....only 1 condom for that amount of cash and coke?

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i guess i never think about the identity theft thing, the last time i lost any ID it wasn't an issue, plus living in a small town there aren't many pickpockets

life long habit to carry everything with me

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@stevecook172001,

AH! Steve...man after my own heart.
Debit card
Driving licence
Small change
Just the bare essentials.

I have what I call my runner's wallet.
It's a MetroCard and my ATM card taped together across their horizontals with their strips exposed on either side. If you then take a ten or a twenty dollar bill and fold it in half, it will just slide inside the taped cards.
I have two pairs of running shorts that have no pockets except for this little baggie sewn inside and hanging from the waistband. The cards/cash fit verysnugly inside that 'pocket'.

~~~
I tried remembering this morning when was the last time I kept any family pictures in my wallet. It's been eons.

Joe(when you call me your picture appears on my phone)Nation

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@djjd62,

A governmentally issued photo id (my driver's license for example) is an imperative for my wallet even though I never use it on a daily basis. IT's a neurotic thing I suppose. I always assumed everyone else carries at least one governmentally issued photo id with them at all times as well.

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