I am counting an International Drivers License as one. The others are Nevada and UAE (Dubai)
The strangest thing I ever found in my wallet was a snake. It was a baby or a very tiny adult snake (a “little snake”? I am sure there are no midget snakes). Anyway, it slithered out and landed on the carpet, at which point I did what any grown man would do: I ran into another room making a very odd vocal sound. I don’t know for sure what happened to it but I have heard a rumor that it got a job on Wall Street.
Nothing too weird. I have transit cards for BART (SF+East Bay), NYC, Boston, and Chicago, as well as Translink.
Also in there is a Pig Buck I earned from being on the winning team at the Pig & Whistle pub quiz. Haven’t even been there in years, even though I’m sitting two blocks away as I type this. I also have zyzzyva’s business card.
SFWA membership card.
I always keep a book of matches in my wallet, you never know when you may need fire.
Tuning fork - A440. I never leave home without it.
A dried fish scale: carp to be precise.
Two Avengers ID’s
A billion dollar bill.
I used to have a token I found on the ground with the words “Get Give Grope” on it and instructions on the other side to get the token, give it to someone, and then they owed you letting you give them a grope. I never found an occasion to give it to anyone.
Nowadays its pretty unusual if I find money in my wallet.
People rifle through your wallet and discuss what they find with you?
“Hey, buddy, you’re the most interestin’ guy I ever mugged!”
For me, the unusual item in my wallet is cash.
The movie ticket stub from my first date with my (now) wife. Eventually I’m going to have it tattooed onto me.
“Wag the Dog” - January 30th, 1998.
I keep a bronze Roman coin in my wallet as a conversation piece. A lot of people are fascinated just by being given the opportunity to view and touch a real 2000 year-old artifact (well, 1,692 years old if one is going to be pedantic), and most assume that it must be worth a lot of money. Well, actually, it’s not worth much. I bought it from a catalog for about $25. What makes it such an interesting item is the juxtaposition of the images on the two sides of the coin.
The obverse bears a portrait of Constantine the Great with the legend “CONSTANTINVS PF AVG” (“Constantine Dutiful Augustus”). The reverse shows the figure of Sol Invictius (“The Unconquered Sun”), a cult deity elevated to preeminent status in the Roman pantheon by Aurelian circa 270 AD. The feast day of this god was celebrated on the winter solstice, which was, according to the Roman calendar, on December 25th. Therefore we have on one side the first “Christian” emperor – or at least the man responsible for making the practice of Christianity legal – and on the other, the god whose feast day was appropriated for the birth of Christ.
Images of a coin of the same kind may be seen here.
A dollar bill in the shape of an elephant.
A large gauge yarn needle.
1 Regular sewing needle.
1 Large blue button.
Currently, the only slightly odd things I have in my wallet are a 20 Euro note and a 1,000 Lebanese Lira note. I used to have several SIMMs for various countries’ cell networks (Dubai, Tanzania, Cyprus, and Lebanon), but I cleared them out a while ago.
I have to say I’m amazed at some of this stuff- how big are your wallets? Knitting needles, flashlights, sawblades, flashdrives, allen wrenches- don’t tell me you keep these things in your pockets…
I have nothing unusual, but then again I haven’t carried a wallet in about 20 years.
I keep meaning to get a miniature set of picks to keep in my wallet, but I always forget, and my wife is loathe to let me spend money on that particular hobby.
I have disney stubs from 2004. That’s about it.
Heh, I have a one dollar bill shaped like a short sleeved, collared shirt. A guy was tipping the bartender with all kinds of fancy money. I commented that they were cool, so he gave me a shirt. I’d forgotten all about it until I switched to a wallet I hadn’t used in two years, then discovered it there.