use a business card holder as a wallet, front pocket.
My wallet would be a lot thinner if people would just start using dollar coins!
Iām tired of having to keep so many near-worthless units of money in my wallet mixed in with my real money.
Any unit of currency that canāt buy me a bottle of Coke belongs in my pocket with my jingling money, not in my wallet with my folding money. Iām sorry to say it, but the single dollar passed this threshold at least five years ago.
That wallet would suck for me, because I use only cash. Id have no where to store coins and bills. As for pens and stuff, I store those in my book bag. Credit cards are for fools. Too easy for companies and individuals to ripp you off.
Most I use those sorts of pockets is business cards I pick up, and then remove and stick in a shoe box somewhere, and then I end up throwing most of them away!
Talk to any healthcare professional who deals with posture issues and theyāll tell you that sitting all day on hip pocket wallet is an unhealthy idea. Moving it to a different pocket is the best idea but if you have to put it in your hip pocket, thinner is better.
Why not optimise the contents of your wallet? I worked in the US a few years ago and was always amazed at the amount of crap my cow-orkers carried around with them, with wallets 3-4cm thick. My current wallet is maybe 5mm thick, and about half of that is the leather itās made of.
I use a London Oyster card sleeve as a wallet
Cards fit perfectly, and money goes in the other side of the sleeve. Canāt get any more thin.
Make a wallet out a wired magazine cover
The European in me wonders, though: Where does the change go? At least thatās what causes most of my current walletās bulge.
Seriously, when did you last use your Nissan-card?
Iāve found that the perfect size is a card-sized wallet with enough room for a few notes, a debit card, a credit card and an id. I picked it up in Fredrikshamn in Denmark.
Henrik J
I have an huge billabong wallet, which isnāt a problem. I bought it because it has a pocket for change inside. It can look a little unmanly sometimes, but I donāt like jangly change in my pocket. I also used the coin compartment for keeping my work-related keys (locker key, kensington lock key, etc). I hardly ever have anything in my back pocket, so a bigger wallet isnāt usually an issue. Though I wouldnāt mind going thinner in the future.
If I want to carry a pen I usually grab one of my many Bic Cristals and stuff it in the pocket with my phone.
My keychain has 2 keys and a Homestarrunner star-shaped fob. Iām thinking of adding my bike lock key, but I hardly ever lock my bike. I never need anything else to be with my keys.
I roll with a Bandit Wallet - http://www.amagpoc.com/
I actually invented this product for people who have the an enormous Constanza Wallet shown above! The bandit is a wallet band this is rubber on the inside and smooth on the outside. I went through 200+ prototypes before going live with sales in Feb 2010.
As a side now, I wonder if the wallet photo at the beginning of this post is the origin of this photo. In my research of āfat walletsā this picture pops up all over the place. I wonder whose wallet that really isā¦
For a wallet pen, I find the Ohto Petit-B is hard to beat.
https://www.amazon.com/Ohto-Petit-B-Needle-Point-Ballpoint-Pen/dp/B0052RGZXM
Itās 3" long when closed (expanding to 5"), thin, and only costs about $7. I carry it everywhere in the crease of my wallet.
Regarding pens: for a few bucks you can make your own. The ink tube and tip from a Bic pen fits very nicely inside one of the standard sizes of metal tubing sold at hobby shops. A few minutes with a pipe cutter (or pocket knife if you use a soft metal) and a little glue and you can have a pen that fits in a business card case (and happens to be about as small as I can actually use).