Left rear. And, no, I’m not lefthanded. I just got used to doing it that way.
Rear right, as I’m right handed. Wallet and comb go in that pocket.
I’ve only known one guy who kept his in the front. I think that bulge in your pocket just looks strange. I imagine it’d be fairly uncomfortable, too.
No, they have a wallet-like lump. What sort of tumor causes a raised flat rectangular area on the skin?
A few years ago, my chiropractor grabbed my wallet out of my rear pocket and said “I don’t ever want to see this back there again.” Would you willingly sit all day on a chair that’s an inch higher on one side? Probably not. Why sit on a thick wallet all day?
I also keep my wallet thin - I’m not going to spontaneously walk three miles to the video store, so the video card lives in the car. Ditto the Costco card and a handful of other store cards. Why carry a half-inch thick stack of store cards every place you go? All of the grocery store cards are stashed at home as all the stores let you just punch in your phone number, rather than carry yet another card.
I carried my wallet in my front right pocket for years; all through high school and well into college, in fact. However, as time went by, my volume of pocket chattel exapanded to include first keys (which lived in the front left pocket, and still do) and then a cell phone. Now, I was reluctant to change, and originally tried to have my phone and wallet in the same pocket. However, that makes for one heavy and bulky pocket! Since I don’t want to sit on my phone (as I think few of them are made to support my too-many pounds of weight), the wallet goes in back by default. I keep it in the rear left, as I find it easier to handle with my left hand, leaving my more dexterous right hand free to fiddle with its contents.
For the last 15 years, I’ve used a money clip in the front left pocket- ID, MasterCard, ATM card, insurance card, cash. Used to carry a wallet in back left (I’m right-handed), but realized that 98% of the time I only need the above items.
All other items are in a wallet in my briefcase, which I only carry with me about 2 days/week. I realized that most of the cards in my wallet are more for the card company’s convenience, not mine. For instance- Triple-A card? If I break down, I’ll call and give them my name, they can cross-reference my ID number to find that I’m a current customer.
Front left. I used to carry it in the back left, but got tired of sitting on it. I’m confused by the right-handers who carry their wallets in their right pockets. I’m right handed, and that’s why I carry it in my left. It doesn’t take that much dexterity to get the wallet out of the pocket, and then it’s in my left hand, leaving my right hand free to deal with money/cards.
My wallet is in my front right pocket with my pocketwatch; my chequebook, driving licence, and a bit of cash are in the rear right, and the pocket is held closed by a button. Front left holds keys, coins, and handkerchief. I’m strongly considering going back to the jacket wallet I used 15+ years ago, since I’m a jacket person, and my wallet often tangles with my watch.
But I’m confused about those of you who say they were sitting on the contents of your rear pocket: my rear pockets have never gone deep enough for that.
I wondered the same thing. Right reat pocket man here. When I am sitting, my wallet is behind and above the portion of my butt that contacts the chair. Does sitting on your wallet have something to do with saggy pants fashion?
I have too much loose stuff in my front pocket to stick in my wallet - keys, change, loose bills, handkerchief, pretty colored rocks… Try to pull out the wallet from the front pocket and they all come spilling out on the floor.
Depends. If I have any $20 bills, left rear. Otherwise, left front.
Always front left. That way I can pull the wallet itself with my left hand and take money out of it with my right. Keys go in my front right pocket.
I’ve never sagged, myself. Just a touch baggy. As I sit now, the corner of my wallet is between my keyster and my office chair. However, seats that are harder and not open to the rear as this one is (say, a wooden church pew or a nominally-cushioned bus seat) make more contact, and therefore exert more pressue on my pocket contents. Also, I’ve been know to slouch.
Same here. I have been surprised at the number of “front right” guys, here. You hold your wallet in your right hand and fish for cards or cash with your left? Does that mean the board is overrun with sinister individuals?
Nope. Take it out with right, switch it to left, take stuff out I need to take out, switch it back to right, back into pocket. Yeah, it’s a couple more steps, but they take something like 1/2 second longer. And it’s automatic now.
Back right pocket
I keister it.
Somewhat inconvenient, sure. But no pickpocketing!
Front left, for many years now. Keys and phone front right.
But I’m not happy about it and I’m looking for another solution. Big bulges on both sides make me look like I’m wearing jodhpurs. About 20 years ago I worked in a refinery with a thumbprint ID system at the gates and I’ve been wondering when we’d get on with a system like that which would allow me to do away with the damn cards and keys. And perhaps a little lapel clip instead of the flip phone. C’mon, and flying cars.
If it hasn’t been said already, I think the reason for the back pocket being the “right” one is that it’s roughly the same size and shape as a wallet.
However, most of the pants I wear have “cargo pockets” which are halfway down, just above the knee, and these are also square, though bigger than a typical back pocket, so I put my wallet in the right cargo pocket. When wearing jeans or other pants without cargo pockets, I put my wallet in front left, keys and cell phone in front right.
Umm…in my coat pocket?
I used to keep it in my right rear pocket, but then last year I sort of realised I’m not 20 pounds overweight (never was, but I dressed like it) and switched to Grown Up Girl pants, which apparently don’t include pockets. So I’ve been keeping it all all my other crap in my coat. Which means I’m screwed come summer. Unless I get (gasp!) a purse. I’m not sure I’m ready for that.
I keep my wallet in my back right pocket.
I’m a woman who refuses to carry a purse.
But, like Giant_Sponges, the nicer I dress the harder it is to put a wallet in my pants so having a coat does help. Every winter I am relieved when I remember I can put my wallet (and phone and cigs and keys) in my coat. Maybe that’s why I love the Midwest!
I also prefer men’s coats because they have lots of pockets you can use. Apparently women don’t need pockets. or something.