£20 in notes
Change
2 debit cards
Electron card
photo of fiance
University ID card
I try not to keep too much in my wallet.
Driver’s license
ATM/Debit Card
Two credit cards
Emergency ‘flat’ car key, like Small Clanger
Three health insurance cards (mine and the kids)
Dental insurance card
EMT card
County Volunteer Firefighter card
Firehouse membership card
Tip card (shows 15% and 20% tips on amounts from $10 to $100. Yes, I’m that stupid)
Three grocery store cards so the evil “THEY” can track me
Blockbuster card
ID Card from work so I can get discounts at teacher supply stores
No cash in wallet. Cash always in right, front pocket, and usually only enough to get me to the next ATM.
Thin wallet.
Drivers License
Business credit card
Personal credit/debit card
Health insurance card
CPR cert card
Conference call card
One business card w/ travel membership numbers written on back
And it is still too thick. I wonder how necessary carrying my health insurance card is.
Too much stuff:
Driver License
Health Insurance Card
REI Credit Card
AAA Card
REI Member Card
Auto Insurance wallet card
Probably expired Sam’s Club card
Red Cross Blood donor card
Picture of my brother and his now ex-wife on their wedding day
Credit/Debit Card
Bev-Mo Card
Library Card
5 of my business cards
A few ATM receipts
Organ donor card
Piece of paper with my Fed-Ex account number on it
My (now expired) Vermont fishing license
Vons Club Card
Receipt from a parking service
No cash 
I only carry my wallet in the side pocket of my cargo shorts/pants. If I’m not wearing cargos, I just put my license and a credit card in my pocket and go. I can’t stand to sit on a wallet.
I am constantly ridiculed for the size of my wallet. My friends call it the “George Costanza” wallet and I suppose I’d laugh at that, except I missed the episode of Seinfeld that this apparently refers to.
I’m not typically a packrat, except when it comes to my wallet. Why? Because every time I clean out my wallet, without fail, I almost immediately run into a situation in which I need something that I just threw out. It’s uncanny.
For years I carried around the business card of a guy who ran a music store in Queens that was particularly good at finding vintage instruments. One day a friend of mine asked me if I knew any vintage guitar specialists and sure enough, I had cleaned out my wallet the previous day and didn’t have it any more. (After 10 years of having carried this dude’s number around.)
I also used to carry around a slip of paper that had all my family’s Social Security numbers written on it (no names, just numbers). Never needed it until the day after I threw it out.
So I basically never throw anything away when it comes to my wallet.
Current contents:
- One year’s worth of expired monthly LIRR passes
- About two dozen business cards
- The key to my ATV
- Numerous tiny slips of paper with important numbers written on them
- Two Amex cards (business, personal), two ATM cards (business, personal), one MasterCard, one Discover card, Two expired ATM cards from a bank I no longer have an account with, Yamaha credit card
- Blood donor card, about a dozen discount cards and loyalty cards I almost never use (Petco, Ace Hardware, Hess Coffee Club, Mohegan Sun Player’s Club, Starbuck’s Prepaid, etc.)
- Two Green Keys (one expired) - Green Keys prove residency in Suffolk County, New York and give you discounts on parking, camping, beach permits, etc.
- My student ID from Washington & Lee University. I graduated in 1994.
- Insurance cards
- Driver’s licenses. (Current and expired.) I like to stack these on top of one another like a flip book and show how I’ve aged since I started driving.
- Some stupid thing that proves I’m a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Why I don’t throw this away is beyond me.
- About 76 Metrocards which may or may not have balances on them.
- Expired gym ID, expired garage ID, expired ID from old job
- About two dozen PBA “Get Out Of Jail Free” cards, ranging in dates from 1989 to 2005, given as gifts from various police officers, politicians, and friends.
- Three pre-paid phone cards I’ve never used. Probably expired.
- Social Security Card
- Convictions stub from a temporary license I had in the early 1990s
- Car registration
- A large number of particles of paper that I will refer to as “wallet dingleberries.” Most likely, these are fragments of pieces of paper that I’ve refused to throw out that are now decomposing.
- That’s about it.
Haha, lush. My list:
*Bevmo card
*Medical insurance card
*Student ID even though I graduated. I still use it to get discounts at the movies. 
*Library card
*Business cards from a company I no longer work for
*Folded up bar tab
*Macy’s gift certificate
*Safeway card
*Albertson’s card
*Non driver’s license gov’t ID
Please note the conspicuous absence of a driver’s license or credit/debit card. I lost both of them. :smack:
I’ll have the debit card replaced soon enough (thank Jebus no one has found it and made a bunch of fradulent purchases), but I’m holding off on the driver’s license. They want me to PAY for a replacement. Screw that, I already have my DL number memorized, and have a different gov’t issued ID that looks almost exactly like a license anyway. I haven’t needed it in about year, and I’ve gotten on airplanes, been pulled over by the police, been all out asked for my DL at a go karting place and showed the chick my other ID instead. She didn’t even know the difference. Of course the cops knew the difference, but I simply gave them my DL number and showed them my identification. Nope, don’t need my driver’s license. I’ll get a new one for free when it expires.
Sorry for the essay, folks.
And cash.
What’s a Bevmo card?
Boatloads o’ crap:
“discount cards” for two grocery store chains
Eye-care discount cards (two)
Borders frequent-shopper card for kids’ books
Expired JC Penney portrait club card (just tossed, thanks!)
Barnes and Noble discount card, probably expired
Build-a-bear frequent-shopper card
A few credit cards
Two ATM cards (joint and personal)
Health insurance cards (several expired)
Pharmacy card
Blockbuster card
Pair of silver earrings
Silver “charm” from my grandmother’s bracelet
7-8 ATM/store receipts
Driver’s license and AAA card
library card
Prescription for a mammogram (thanks for the reminder!!)
Miscellaneous business cards (none of my own, of course!)
An assortment of didnt-win-the-big-one-but-might-be-worth-a-few-bucks-if-I-ever-get-around-to-checking-em lotto tickets.
No money. Nope, not a dime. I tend to shove bills in the zipper compartment of my purse, or in my pants pocket. Coins go in my pocket then in a basket on my dresser at the end of the day.
Bevmo, aka Paradiso for drunkards. The world’s most comprehensive liquor store. No, not just 40 ounces and Marlboro lights like the dingy little store on the corner of Broadway and Elm, these folks have a beautiful selection of all things wine, scotch, dark rum, and even drinking accessories. Flasks, martini glasses, the whole nine. It’s a CA thing though.
I carry a wallet, and keep it in my right back pocket, too. Old habit. I used to be a “skater” as a teenager, and used to wear a chain attached to it. What a geek!
Anyway, inside:
My birth certificate
My SIN from Canada
My driver’s permit with dorky picture on it
A QFC card
A Safeway Card
A Subway Card
A ticket stub from Majestic Bay on Market Street. It says “TAR WARS”. I’m sure there was supposed to be an “S” at the front of that, but the MST3K side of me finds it more amusing this way.
My old Medicare card from NB (has a picture of the flowerpot rocks on it)
A little note I tucked in there with my husband’s and FIL’s contact information in case of an emergency - since I’m in limbo immigration-wise, all my ID makes me look like I’m a tourist. If anything happened to me, I’d want someone to contact my husband, at least, before shipping me home to NB. I’m sure my parents would be thrilled to see me, but my husband would wonder where I went. 
A debit card
Hmm. No cash.
Ditto.
$26
Driver’s license (organ donor. Liver not specified, but it’s available)
ATM Check Card
Sams Club card
ATM card (not check card)
business card for optometrist
Vision benefits card
BC/BS card
Picture of my 5 year old son, when he was about 4 mos. old
Philly Zoo membership card
3! different work ID’s (because just one isn’t “secure” enough, I guess :rolleyes: )
For some reason I love these threads.
Right.
Concessionary Travel Card
Building Society Account cards
Public library card
Cinema Exhibitors’ Association Card
Spar home video membership
Blockbuster membership (never used)
2 University Library photocopier cards, part-used, possibly out of date
2 cheaper university photocopier cards from the divinity faculty common room copier
Glasgow University Matriculation Card
Father-in-law’s business card
Buy-9-get-one-free hot beverage card from Morton’s, an execrable coffee house near the uni (4 stamps)
debit/cash card
Recorded delivery receipt
old shopping list written on a post-it which has made other things all sticky
Thanks for the tip, our local Subway closed a couple months ago. My proof of insurance is in the car, thanks, but the insurance card has all their toll free numbers and my account number on it, and that’s handy every once in a while. Made buying a new car a bit easier, when I didn’t have my old car with me. And the PBS card is actually a 2 for 1 dining card for some select(?) restaurants. They send it to me every year but, as a single person, I rarely get a chance to use it. And the restaurants tend to be places to take a date only if one doesn’t want another date (not to mention looking like a cheapskate, which I am, so why lie? )
I have gone out with nothing in hand but my license and debit card. What else do I need? Around here there’s Keybanks on every corner.
If I have to go to the doctor or anything, I have to find my purse - which is hanging on the hook in the spare bedroom - and dig out my insurance card. Also in there is my social security card, and numerous other things which I don’t find it necessary for day-to-day.
My wallet is enourmous and bright pink. I have this problem that I can never find it, so I wanted something more conspicuous.
What is in laurelann’s wallet:
driver’s licence
birth certificate (from visiting Canada this year with drum corps)
university i.d.
blockbuster card (not that i need it, my acct. # is memorized)
at&t calling card, though i don’t think it has any minutes left
credit card under my grandmother’s acct.
my credit/debit card from my bank
my credit card
aaa card that expired in may
health insurance card
halmark gold crown card
gfloyd’s old photocopy card
high school id from 01-02
built-in calculator
pictures: 2 of me and my boyfriend, my sister, 4 of me and my two best friends
movie stubs from valentine’s day
hint to my pin
my old mailbox combination
list of co-workers’ phone numbers
checkbook and register
3 atm reciepts
2 wak-mart reciepts
a brooks pharmacy reciept (from tour)
an expired coupon for a free soda at burger king
$1.53 in change
Corporate AmEx card
My AmEx card
Visa
ATM card X 2
Securty card for work
Prepaid subway card (for work)
Prepaid subway card (for private)
Prepaid train card (for work)
Prepaid train card (for private)
Prepaid phone card (rarely used
Alien registration card
Japanese drivers license
Point card for electronics shop
Point card for golf shop
ATM receipt
30,000 yen (about $280)
Just cheated and cleaned out four other receipts, thanks for the reminder.
$108 in paper money.
A receipt for a $100 gift certificate that’s in my file at a comic shop I don’t go to any more.
An ATM receipt, now discarded
REI dividend check for $33.64
A Best Buy $10 coupon.
Driver License
A piece of cardboard with key-shaped cutouts, with keys for my car and The Club taped in. This has saved me from being locked out of my car on numerous occasions.
Medical insurance card, important to have if I get hit by a blimp.
MCI phone card that I’ll never use.
AAA card with a post-it on it with an ex-coworker’s email address.
A post-it with the confirmation number for a will-call purchase of Garbage tickets, now discarded.
A parking garage ticket, now discarded. (It got late enough that the garage let me out free and I didn’t need the ticket)
Safeway club card
Monterey Bay Aquarium charter member card.
California Academy of Sciences Visionary membership card.
Debit card from primary bank.
Best Buy Reward Zone card.
Debit card from secondary bank, in protective tyvek sleeve.
Fully adult giant squid. Not really, just seeing if you’re paying attention.
Primary platinum card
Primary platinum card with my secondary name (the hard-to-pronounce one that I love hearing Safeway checkers stumble over)
Secondary platinum card.
Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch card.
Plastic Fresnel magnifying glass in plastic case from previous employer.
The problem with my current wallet is that even when it’s not particularly full, it’s still very thick.
The good thing is that when it’s in my back pocket it doesn’t sit under my ischial tuberosity so it doesn’t reallly affect my sitting. It’s sort of off to the side of my ass rather than under it.
I feel I have to keep things in my wallet because if I don’t put them in there, I won’t have them when I need them. Just remembering to take things with me when I’m going to need them doesn’t seem to work for me at all.
- CA Driver’s License
- Yolo County library card
- UC Davis ID
- Safeway discount card
- Proof of insurance (one in the wallet, one in the glovebox)
- Washing machine card (“Keeping America Clean … One Laundry Room at a Time”)
- Visa card through my old bank
- Wells Fargo ATM/Debit Card
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care card, not too useful
- CVS card, even less useful
- Blood donor card
- Five dollar gift card to Lands’ End
- Delta Sky Miles Card
- SWA Rapid Rewards Card
- AAA card
- Regal Crown Club card (so I can get free popcorn on Tuesdays)
- Red “Admit One” ticket, from what I don’t know
- Three movie ticket stubs (Rocky Horror, Fantastic Four, and Hitchhiker’s)
- The number and email of a somewhat sketchy guy I met at a club in Boston a year ago, but saved for the hell of it
- A check in case I run out of cash and they won’t take either of my cards
- My boyfriend’s contact info
- 3 bank slips
- Barnes & Noble slip
- A farm stand slip
- My work phone number
- A two dollar bill I carry for no good reason, but won’t spend
- 48 dollars in cash
All in my sparkly blue with a star on it oh so white trash wallet that still faintly smells of Newbury Comics.
My wallet is the smallest that I’ve ever had. It is slightly larger than a credit card.
I carry the basic Medical and auto insurance/ liscense. ( they go in one area)
In the money area - strangely lacking in money - is the greatest possession I have ( beside nice tits, my kids and my health) my library cards for myself and the kids. (Oh, and my costco membership. I luvs warehouse bulk food that my kids eat through in nanoseconds.)