# What's in YOUR wallet

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-wallet/44358>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 6, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-wallet/44358 "2000-12-06T20:05:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Serendipity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Serendipity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serendipity)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-wallet/44358/21 "2000-12-07T01:03:46Z")

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My wallet currently contains:  
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[li]ATM card[/li][li]slip of paper with the keycodes to my dorm room and bathroom[/li][li]Hallmark Gold Crown card[/li][li]medical insurance card[/li][li]CVS extra card[/li][li]business card from one of my doctors[/li][li]library card[/li][li]Empire Vision discount card[/li][li]volunteer blood donor card from the Red Cross[/li][li]another, outdated medical insurance card[/li][li]two used Old Navy gift cards[/li][li]two Boston College IDs[/li][li]NY State Driver’s License[/li][li]AT&T phone card[/li][li]season pass to the Great Escape in Lake George, NY[/li][li]business and appointment cards from university counseling[/li][li]card for the library copy machine[/li][li]ticket from Swing City in Cambridge[/li][li]three dollar bills[/li][li]ATM receipts attesting to my status as a poverty-stricken student[/li][li]receipts from the BC Bookstore, Uncommon Grounds, and Celtic Weavers[/li][li]a folded post-it note with a phone number scrawled on it[/li][li]a napkin with my friend Becky’s e-mail address on it[/li][li]$1.67 in change[/li][/ul]

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**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-wallet/44358/22 "2000-12-07T01:28:13Z")

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lemme see…

credit card  
school id  
lock combo slip  
ticket for free mini golf game (i got a hole in one at the last hole)  
driver’s license  
health club card  
AAA card  
friend’s e-mail address on a slip of paper  
phone number on slip of paper, for what i have no idea.  
teacher’s business card  
raffle ticket  
2 5’s and 5 1’s

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**Author:** ![sk8rixtx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sk8rixtx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sk8rixtx)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-wallet/44358/23 "2000-12-07T01:36:57Z")

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Five bucks  
Learner’s Permit  
School I.D  
Blockbuster Membership Card  
Picture of Michelle  
Picture of Kayley  
Christy’s Cell Phone #  
Christy’s Beeper #  
Christy’s Home #  
Bottom half of the wrapper of a cigarette box, nicely folded up. Hmmmm… wonder what I’d need that for?

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**Author:** ![sk8rixtx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sk8rixtx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sk8rixtx)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-wallet/44358/24 "2000-12-07T01:45:04Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by AETBOND417 \*  
> \*\*70 cents (2 phone calls)  
> $5  
> Driver’s Permit  
> School ID  
> Movie ticket stub (Unbreakable)
> 
> Attention KMart Shoppers: [This has been done](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=35573) \*\*

Interesting… I have a ticket stub for Unbreakable in my left pocket.

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**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-wallet/44358/25 "2000-12-07T08:16:27Z")

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a bank card  
a youth hostel member thing  
a train timetable for trains from Cambridge to London (I live in Austria!!!)  
some English, some German and some Austrian coins(l live in Austria - near the German border - but the English money is useless)  
a condom

the end

dodgy

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**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-wallet/44358/26 "2000-12-07T08:39:45Z")

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You mean to tell me that the first person to post “a condom” to this thread is the 24th poster, and it’s a WOMAN?? 😕

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-wallet/44358/27 "2000-12-07T09:19:26Z")

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Visa and compubank cards numbers — wait, I’m not supposed to tell you that.

Useful card to have when you’re driving (gee, I wonder . … )

GMU student ID card.

A purple post-it note cut up into funky shapes.

Two TD Waterhouse cards.

army registration number

metro card

library card

card of a guy I need to contact on occasion.

info on my student ID

16 bucks

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**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-wallet/44358/28 "2000-12-07T09:27:08Z")

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This thread would be much more interesting if you included the actual numbers of the credit cards. Oh, and you also could jot down the girls’ phone numbers you have. I always like to have company on my shopping sprees.

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**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-wallet/44358/29 "2000-12-07T09:53:56Z")

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Lets see hmm I’ve got my ATM card, Citibank Student Mastercard, Associates Visa Card, Insurance card, Old Navy credit card, Old Navy discout card, Driver’s Liscence (IN), Ball State ID card, time card for my summer factory job, and finally about 60 dollars or so. Hmmmm

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