Last year, my friend bought me a new wallet. It was made of recycled tires. I liked it, but you had to really push hard to get most of my cards into the card slots. Even though it was made of rubber. But I put up with it, but ultimately I shaved about 1/8 of an inch from the right side of several of the stiff plastic cards. And my debit card often had trouble being read by card readers. The guy at the bank told me I shouldn’t do that, even though it was a chip card and I never used the old magnetic strip. Okay, fine. They gave me a new card.
Then my friend recently went to Portugal, and got me another new wallet. This one is made of cork, which apparently is one of the big commodities there. It’s handsome, but damn, the card slots are again just a wee bit too narrow. This time, it’s unlikely to stretch much. I finally gave up and put the debit card in with the bills, which is obviously silly.
Thees ees wrong! I don’ like eet! The kitty don’ like eet either!
Anyone else have this problem? Do card makers have some sort of grudge against the wallet people? Is it just an American thing? That would not surprise me. We put a guy on the moon, et cetera. Anyway, please tell me I’m not crazy.
Cut the debit card, but from the top right side down at an angle so that the cut reaches the side just above the mag strip. Then stick it in the slot upside down.
I’ve had issues with cards not fitting wallet slots in the past. Now, I’m holding on to my current wallet like grim death. Thank dog it’s a Dooney-Bourke .
It’s so you can tap it on a card reader. That little wifi-looking symbol on the upper right means it can be tapped, meaning it also has an RFID chip and antenna.
There’s a lot of different designs but they usually have at least one or more loops around the edge.
I gave up wallets for a small card case, after watching a friend leave his George Costanza wallet on the bar wherever we drank (because he couldn’t sit on it).
I’m on my third card case, but before I bought each one, I always checked to make sure I could keep four cards and an emergency twenty in it. So I’ll never accidentally buy one that’s too short for credit cards… (seriously?)
Go flying? You must be really eager to pick up our lunch check!
My proposed cut opens to the fold. When the wallet is at any angle less than flat, and especially when it’s folded closed, the green card (like its red neighbor) can’t slide horizontally or down.
I have several wallets that were given to me as presents that I don’t use because my cards don’t fit right. So I buy one that works. It’s always been a very inexpensive wallet.
You are right! I once had a wallet made of purple vinyl, from a toy department. I think it had Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame on it. And cards fit just fine into it. I may have to go back to something like that.
