What the feck is all the fuss about 'Micro Wallets'?

[editor]

Maybe it's just my crappy Facebook feed, but for months I've been bombarded by ads all trying to outdo each other for having the thinnest, smallest, tiniest, teensiest-weeniest, razor slim, one-micron thick nano-wallets.

There's seems to be kickstarter campaigns all over the place for these flimsy-looking tiny wallets, so is this some massive social-shifting fashion trend that I'm missing?

 

[8115]

Wallets for wankers.

 

[Favelado]

The bigger the better or I'll lose it.

 

[editor]

Wallets for wankers.

Wankwall. Or maybe Wallanks.

 

[IC3D]

As someone who just keeps a debit card in his back pocket I might be interested.

 

[8ball]

I thought this was something to do with waving your phone at the guard and being let into the cinema.
Maybe I'm mixing it up with something else...

 

[editor]

As someone who just keeps a debit card in his back pocket I might be interested.

RAZOR THIN says one. Which might prove painful. Or handy in a rough fight.

 

[IC3D]

Sounds painful editor and after taking a gander the selling point was blocking RFID which fucks with the laziness of my current form.

 

[keybored]

the selling point was blocking RFID

Wallets for paranoid wankers, then.

 

[8ball]

I seem to have had one for years. Hang around long enough and it seems you always come back into fashion.



edit: or maybe this is a nano-wallet cos it's smaller than its contents...

 

[moochedit]

Yeah i kept getting those wallet ads for a while.

I don't get it either!

Not seen one for a bit though unless they've started again.

The ads i saw before everyone was taking the piss in the comments as they would show a photo of the thin wallet and a "normal" wallet and the normal one obviously had more cards etc stuffed in it!

 

[Chilli.s]

Try getting 2 or 3 tun, half a doz cards and a tenners shrapnel in that.

 

[skyscraper101]

Given my wallet needs to hold various credit/debit cards, business cards, receipts and drivers licence (and I usually like to keep at least a couple of fivers in there), I don’t think I’m the target market for these things.

That said I’d be quite happy to live in an age where I could replace all these things with a phone but though I try to use it for most things, we’re not quite there yet.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

What is a micro wallet? As actually money is very rarely used in my day to day life I generally carry a card holder in my pocket.
Is that what they are talking about?

 

[Fez909]

I'm probably the target market for these as I like a wallet to be as thin as possible, but unfortunately "micro-wallets" aren't for me. None of them can fit money in properly. What's the point of the paper money section if 20 quids stick out the top?!

My current wallet is a thin normal wallet. Money sticks out the top, just, but it'll do. I've had it years and it's looking nicely aged now

 

[salem]

I rekon most are made for the US market where they don't have these giant notes we do.

I've given up on wallets all together. I stick my card and sometimess tenner in my phone case and occasionally loose change in my pocket.

 

[Fez909]

I've given up on wallets all together

my phone case

I'd argue you've just got a wallet big enough to put your phone in now

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I'm probably the target market for these as I like a wallet to be as thin as possible, but unfortunately "micro-wallets" aren't for me. None of them can fit money in properly. What's the point of the paper money section if 20 quids stick out the top?!

My current wallet is a thin normal wallet. Money sticks out the top, just, but it'll do. I've had it years and it's looking nicely aged now

I can get quite a few folded notes in my card holder just folded twice (as well as my cards). I think even two folds does it. A note is not even the same width as a credit card so its not a problem.

 

[moochedit]

I rekon most are made for the US market where they don't have these giant notes we do.

Yeah but they also have the one dollar note (not a coin and worth about 70p) and as i found when visting the us they quickly make your wallet bulge as you get more and more of the bloody things in change.

 

[klang]

Money sticks out

wish I had a wallet with money sticking out

 

[editor]

I really like the HF Skinny wallet - which is really a glorified travelcard holder and cost about £6 - but they've stopped making them and I think I've reached the limit as to how many repairs I can keep doing before the thing completely falls apart:



Here's how it once looked:

 

[editor]

I'm getting this to replace it. £17 which is more than I'd like for a bloody wallet but it looks OK and comes with the apparently now-essential 'RFID protection.'



On a whim, I also bought the 'micro' version of the above as it was going extra-cheap - I don't think I'm going to like it but will report back.

 

[moochedit]

I guess with people carrying bigger phones taking up more pocket space, and with more people mainly using cards rather than cash then i can (sort of) see why some people might want a thin wallet. I'm quite happy with the wallet i've got though. But maybe i'm a dinosaur!

 

[wtfftw]

Look at you all with your clothes with pockets that you can put change in.

 

[editor]

Look at you all with your clothes with pockets that you can put change in.

One jean pocket fits all the change I'm going to carry with me! If I do have much change I give most of it away anyway.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

One jean pocket fits all the change I'm going to carry with me! If I do have much change I give most of it away anyway.

Even if we're given pockets our pretend-men clobber, the pockets are significantly smaller than they are for you.


Women's Pockets are Inferior.

Pockets for women are seditionary, as anyone knows.

 

[editor]

Even if we're given pockets our pretend-men clobber, the pockets are significantly smaller than they are for you.


Women's Pockets are Inferior.

Pockets for women are seditionary, as anyone knows.

I bought a pair of fashionably low cut jeans a while ago and the pockets were fucking tiny (like the women's ones in that article) so I feel your pain.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I bought a pair of fashionably low cut jeans a while ago and the pockets were fucking tiny (like the women's ones in that article) so I feel your pain.

You need a man bag if you're going to wear fashionably low cut hipster jeans though.

 

[editor]

You need a man bag if you're going to wear fashionably low cut hipster jeans though.

No way! I'll just have to micro everything!

 

[SheilaNaGig]

No way! I'll just have to micro everything!

Everything.... ? really....?

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