You kids and your government tracked money. I buy too many things for cash to not have a wallet.
I was a always cash guy, Corona made me a card person, I still refuse to use my phone for it because it’s enough that Visa knows everything I buy, no need for Google to know it as well. Also bizarre that we become a no cash society at the same time authoritarian regimes pop up left and right…
I use my debit card a lot but I really like flea markets and junk sales and they are often cash only. I also get cash from metal scrap and it’s my “walking around money “
Contemporary generational labels are as arbitrary as their boundaries, most of us just want to belong so we apply them to ourselves and say we must be X and they are Y, but you’re just as likely describing trends people from any generational category may follow than insight into actual characteristics of the group.
I just throw my cards in my pocket lmao
Older millienal. I bought the phone case wallet. Opens like a book. I’ll admit, when it arrived and I slapped my new phone in it, I realized I’ve only ever seen old man and women use this kind of case. Felt weird for all of ten seconds. I fucking love it.
That being said, I am surprised how many people are asking where people keep their cards and cash. A lot of people literally just use pockets. Like, they raw dog cash, id, some credit or debit cards and got like 2 or 3 loose keys. Don’t get me wrong, they are crazy people and I will literally laugh at them when they wonder aloud where their card is, they JUST had it. But it’s a lot of em. (Worked in retail over a decade, still work in a field where I ask people for their stuff and payment).
Millennial here, I carry a very small wallet, which holds:
- ID
- health insurance card
- library card
- 2 credit cards
- $50 bill
Sometimes I’ll add a debit card if I might need cash for some reason.
If I didn’t need the first three, I’d probably risk not bringing one.
Well, to put it in perspective, anyone older than 20 is “old” to the youngest generation.
I’d kill to be 30 again. That’s the age when you’re in your physical and mental prime, you’ll never be biologically or mentally better than then. And I was a skinny, purty, strong, smart sumbitch then. But I was too insecure to take advantage of it.
My 30’s was the most amazing time of my life. I had just spent ten years in the army, gotten deployed for what felt like most of it, and unceremoniously honorable discharged due to force reduction.
I didn’t know what to do, had a job I hated, and decided to just go to bars and crash at a buddy’s place who agreed to let me live there for free as a house sitter.
It was so many years of debauchery because I was in great shape, had some hope left for the world, and didn’t care because I was no longer in a shitty deployment.
this seems totally made up, lol. im at the tail end of gen z and all my friends use wallets. mine may usually be empty, but how else you gon carry your ID and shit? “sorry officer I don’t have ID, wallets are for oldheads”
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well sure, i’m in one of those american states where you have to drive to do anything though. forgot it’s not like that everywhere
One of them? That’s pretty much all of them. There’s a handful of cities where you can avoid driving, but not many.
I worked at walmart and you would be amazed how many people just whip out a balled up wad of naked cash and change.
Younger gen x here, I just fold my cash over the 3 cards I carry, simple as
Ah yes, loose cards. Nothing bad has ever happened to anyone juggling loose credit cards and/or ID.
I guess I could put a rubber band over the whole thing, no problems the last decade though
Apparently gen z follow YouTubers and know drama/creators by name
One of them was really shocked that I don’t care to follow any and just search for the topic I want and pick whatever (separately I avoid videos with high viewcount or sponsors because then they are doing it for money not as a hobby)
There’s other things like they don’t love the song Smooth and play Minecraft even though they aren’t 9 anymore
Smooth? That song with Santana and Rob Thomas? Yeah that song’s awful and always has been.
Born in 1980, modded Minecraft is still a great game.
I know a few YTers by name (a few of the ones I subscribe to), but I tend to avoid “drama” and haven’t been interested in the most popular YT content since Gangdam Style.
Minecraft is fire. Actually GOAT game and amazing with friends
Well, I definitely fit in the box, got a leather billfold wallet. I’d say I feel like I’ve got several good reasons to:
- we don’t have digital ID in this country
- For some reason we sometimes get issued paper tickets for the train rather than QR code tickets
- I’m sometimes out all day and late into the evening and don’t want a dead phone stopping whatever I’m doing
- I go to enough other countries where you can’t get away without using cash
- (Least of all) I find those metal slim wallets to just be a bit ugly looking personally
Youths in my country have their debit card between their phone and phone case.
So if someone robs your phone you’re doubly fucked? Also wouldn’t that mess with using the phone payments?
Am I the only one who never uses phone cases?
We’re a rare breed it seems. I don’t like the extra bulk and I paid for a high end phone I don’t want to feel a $20 case.
I haven’t minded the extra bulk from cases used, but I also don’t use Otterbox or their alternate equivalents or have a high end phone. I’ve had a case for every smart phone since I’m a clutz sometimes and nervous about breaking it. To each their own 🤷 . But regarding the original topic, I’d feel weird without a physical wallet after so many years of using one.
I’m a clumsy bastard and my insurance is £100 excess per phone repair. Last time I went without a case I think I smashed the screen 3 times in less than 2 years, so the odd £20 case has saved me a fair bit of cash over the years
Forget the cost. I don’t want the inconvenience. I hate dealing with broken phones.
How about having user-replacable back cover?
Not sure I follow. I would definitely enjoy a return to user serviceable devices, including a removable battery compartment. The phones that offer these capabilities are few and far between and often involve unacceptable tradeoffs on other features.
have fun paying for high end repairs when you inevitably drop it i guess?
Born in the 80’s so.m not sure what gen that is.
I’ve never had a wallet. I just carry my cards in my coat pocket. Rarely use them as I use ApplePay.
I’ve never seen a use for a wallet to be honest.
Everyone keeps giving more or less these dates to mark it, but the lifestyles and upbringing can show a lot of variety depending on the region.
You can definitely stretch the time frame to 5 years later depending on the place.
That’s not what a generation is.
But someone can be technically in one gen but culturally another depending on their upbringing.
It’s like a purse just for men.
You’re a millennial If you’re born between 81 and 96. I use the same wallet since I was 16 or 17, but more so out of habit after I paid in cash for most of my life until covid. I did think about getting a card holder for my belt though, but haven’t really looked for one yet.
Gen Z here.
Do people really not have wallets now? There’s so much I can’t carry without a wallet, most importantly my ID. Am I expected to just put that loose in my pockets or bag?
And like, sometimes I’m forced to carry cash for one reason or another. I need a space place to put that.
I’m guessing it’s just because the majority of my generation isn’t old enough to be regularly encountering these issues. I’m 100% certain it’ll change as they age the way I was forced to.Born 1980. I don’t have a traditional wallet, but I do carry a combination card holder (which has my ID) and money clip. I think some people are simplifying that to ID in pocket and all payment methods on phone (tap or app).
Generations are mostly BS anyway. Carry a wallet or not according to your needs and preferences.
Elder statesman millennial here (38 at this point). There’s a pocket on my phone case. I have to carry a phone. Why not make my phone my wallet?
Phone wallets seem like such an older person thing to me vs regular wallets. It’s like admitting you won’t have your phone in your hand constantly so why not combine the two.
People rarely go out without their phones, so having their wallet in their phone case means they never forget their wallet.
The downside is if you lose your phone, you lose your wallet.
I’d rather have a separate wallet, but I get why it’s useful.
Also a handy way to lose your phone, ID, debit, and credit cards all at once! Why not combine all the worst things to lose that I carry into one losable, stealable package? Might as well clip the keys to them too!
Maybe add a thin string to the phone and attach the other end to person’s glasses? So when you lose your phonewalletkeyandglassesholder it wouldn’t make us four-eyed folks feel left out.
Hold on, let me go @ popsocket… We’ll make that a thing yet!
They have those card holder sleeves for their phones, which is essentially a wallet on a phone
Always found those funny because now if one thing gets lost/stolen you’re substantially more screwed. Although if you only carry one card and have tiny pockets, I get it.
That’d interfere with my wireless charger…
Don’t worry just buy this
walletremovable card holder that attaches to your phone but comes off so that you can keep it separate when charging or putting it down, or trying to hold it in your hand without a big bulky thing that keeps popping off.And don’t worry, the magnets no longer affect your credit cards just, hotel keys, cheap gift cards, bus passes, etc…
Yeah sometimes classic ways are still best or you find you really don’t need something you give up for efficiency, just do you and it’s fine.
Reddit gets the weirdest comment upvoted sometimes? Might be bots? Or maybe the tweet is made up because I had a hard time finding that thread.
Assuming no maliciousness, upvotes are not the equivalent of truth votes, but what people want to believe is true or think probably is true.
And make no mistake about it, Lemmy is no different. Might even be worse when it comes to voting along ideological lines.
*Me looking at all my zoomer friends who have wallets
i’m not gen z but i don’t have a wallet?
Where do you put your ice cream loyalty card that has 3 stamps and if you get 10 stamps you get a free ice cream?
I plan ahead and put it in my pocket if I’m going to get ice cream.
Everyone laugh at this guy, he doesn’t live in the moment
I just accept that living in the moment sometimes requires the sacrifice of ice cream stamps.
always in my back pocket
Yeah, as an older millennial, I was just carrying a phone in like 2013. No keys or wallet for most trips - just an ID and credit card in a phone case and a pin lock on the front door. That was before Apple pay was even a thing.
Gen Z is pretty cringe taking credit for the pocket minimalism movement I clearly started.
