I’m so tired of seeing ads for these things.
Where do I put my cash? Where do the coins go? Where do I keep the photo of my cat? What if I have more than 5 cards?
Why is it so expensive?
THIS IS NOT A GOD DAMN WALLET!!! You might as well tie your 3 cards with a rubber band and call that a wallet!
FUCK YOU
My wallet is a phone case, and the phone has a little magnetic jacket I can pop out to stick onto any metal surface.
I mean…I use a binder clip because the thing in the post is too bulky for me.
Where do I put my cash
The money clip
Where do the coins go
take a penny plate
Where do I keep the photo of my cat?
Breast pocket, closest to your heart.
What if I have more than five cards
Alright moneybags, no need to brag.
While these are overpriced, it’s not really any different from a leather slim wallet.
I have more than five cards because I have a library card, driver’s licence, etc…
Bourgeois decadence
when will the poors finally be allowed to have library cards>:(
Legit my wallet
my dad got me and my brother one of those like forever ago and my brother used his I think but like I fucking hated it, I just want a regular tri fold wallet what’s got pockets for my cards and a big ol walletussy for my cash
Me: not everything needs a -tussy at the end!
You: Me coin purseussy
I ran across these the other day.
Type of shit I’m shooting when my partner is desperately low on vitamin c
trifold? oooh la dee da Mx. fancypants
I got one of their key holder things at a volunteer appreciation event and it’s actually pretty nice.
It makes sense in that situation though because you want to minimize how much space your keys take up. A wallet is bigger for a reason…
You just don’t get it, it’s the sleek tacticool wallet for the hip digital nomad. Meanwhile my broke ass has had the same fossil wallet since senior high school.
One of the most underrated things about living in China is not having to carry keys or a wallet.
Front pockets: copy of Quotations from Chairman Mao, packet of cigarettes, a lighter, and phone.
My brother had not been back in the motherland in a hot minute and the dumbass tried to buy ¥6 street food with a ¥100 bill in the 2025 and getting told they don’t have change so he had to go to a Walmart to get a single pack of chewing gum so he could get change to pay for food.
not having to carry keys or a wallet.
It’s great to have that option, but relying completely on your phone sounds scary. What if you drop / forget to charge / misplace it?
Basically every shop has portable chargers for a few yuan/hr. Also basically every modern Chinese phone has reverse wireless charging, my phone can be turned into a wireless charger if my friend’s are running low or something.
Misplacing or damaging it is an issue, but so is misplacing your wallet or your car keys. I left my phone in a taxi last year because my new pant pocket is at a weird angle and the phone slips out. So my cousin was able to find the taxi through her payment app, was on the phone to him 30 seconds later and he was back 5 minutes later with the phone.
Theft is very rare in China now, this university aged student who is a regular at my local cafe and on one occasion left his brand new Macbook on the table at the cafe unattended for an hour and a half while he ducked out to run an errand. He came back, grabbed another iced coffee, and resumed what he was doing on the laptop like it was the most normal thing in the world. I’m a millennial so I would never do this, but the zoomers here grew up in such a safe and stable environment. There’s a painter who regularly leaves her whole ass canvass and paint at the cafe overnight and selling those paintings is her primary source of income!
Just zeroeth world things
Capitalism can commodify even the lack of something and make you pay extra for it.
Innovation.
My wallet is vegan and made of bicycle tires and I’ve had it for at least seven thousand years
last few times i was in northern/western europe, i noticed people there don’t use cash for some reason (some shops even refuse to take cash? ok i guess i’ll just leave then), but they also don’t have any modern payment systems like in developed countries. so people just pay with cards like it’s 2005. so i guess for dutchies/germs/scandals/anglers this wallet is useful?
There was a thread about this on hacker news a few months ago. People there said Sweden has its own Alipay like system and some shops have stopped accepting cash. Some said if you pay in cash you seem shady now which is a typical hacker news thing to say though there was some pushback to it.
Not wanting data brokers selling profiles of all your purchases still seems reasonable to me.
last time I was there they had something called swish (?) which is a shittier weixinpay/alipay that most shops didn’t accept, and was mainly used to pay your friend back for lunch/drinks i think
Swish, correct. every store accepts it and it’s easy to use so it has effectively replaced cash.
every store accepts it
interesting, supermarkets and a bunch of other places didn’t when i was there
even so, in china where paying with your phone has been the norm for over 10 years you can still pay with cash everywhere if you have to. nordics just decided it’s uncool and stinky to have physical money i guess
to be fair I haven’t checked every store in the country, but I see it’s available every time I’m in a shop or at a restaurant. if you enter some small private store it’s actually more likely they ONLY accept Swish
some supermarkets don’t accept it in the self-checkouts, so if you don’t want eye contact you gotta pay by card there
some supermarkets don’t accept it in the self-checkouts
Is there a good reason for it?
I don’t know if it’s THE reason but at the ICA (grocery store chain) self checkouts the process is you input payment details first (blip card), then scan your stuff, then wait for payment to process, which wouldn’t work with Swish since it enforces the payment process to be atomic (getting the price first and then inputting payment details)
actually what might be THE reason for ICA is that they are also technically a bank and you can have your own special ICA card tied to your bank account
Yeah that’s the one that was mentioned. Swish.
Why can’t they invent anything besides some rectangular slab? Phone needs to be a slab, desktop needs to be a slab on a stand, we’ve got a reading slab for ebooks.
And now this slab for putting in all your small e cash slabs.
slab
Return it
🎵KIIIIIIIINNNNNGGG RAMSES
The man in gauze!
The man in gauze!
Come to humans we got:
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Taking a normal plant and making it so fat and juicy it’ll die unless you watch it.
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Groups of about 50 guys for some reason!
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Putting colors and shiny stuff on our walls and shit.
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Burning a thing : )
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The Slab:
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slabslop
You’re putting coins in your wallet?
Yes. Where else am I supposed to put them?
I keep coins in the small fifth pocket of my jeans, I don’t like sitting on them
That pocket is for my USB flash drive
retvrn to … 2003ish iirc was that one year everyone was wearing USB flash drives on lanyards.
You’re supposed to hide a former chex-mix bucket somewhere at home, comrade. Then, during the arduous months, you feed each coin into the machine at supermarket checkout holding up the line like hell cause you’ll be fucked if you’re giving some bourgeoisie robot bandit 12.9% of my fucking coins. Fuck the U.S. it is literally what it wants people to think the USSR was.
In a seventy pound jar in your closet
That’s what the zipper pocket next to the velcro is for, duh.
Do you carry your wallet in your backpack or something?
Plenty of room in my pockets.
like the chain would reach that far
You got a better idea?
I can’t think of a worse idea! You want to have a brick under one side of your ass? Madness! I’m surrounded by madness!!
i could never use this because i’m a boomer who still carries a bit of cash and once in a while will save receipts
i think it’s popular with the segment of the EDC crowd obsessed with hyper optimizing things including the size/weight of what they bring around
But why carry card in a thing when you can carry it without a thing
just because i’m not straight doesn’t mean my paper is exempt
i used to have a dollar clip. like it was just a plastic thing that would hold paper bills. not even cards or IDs. coins go in your pants pocket/ash tray/cup holder/the guilt trip fundraiser.
one time i made a wallet and a detachable coin pocket for it, eventually just left the coins at home all the time because i only rarely pay cash and just lose the change somewhere at home or in the car.
There are cute credit card shaped pocket saws with some hex sockets and angle measuring cut outs.
Used it once
I got one free at a job fair thing - and after five years the only time I remembered it and took it out of my wallet was to chuck it in the bin at the airport because it set off the scanner…
I walk around with a cloth wallet that was made in Cuba. Holds onto everything I need and is bendy.
