I’m one of the younger millennials (I think?).
I never carry cash unless I have to (for some reason dependent on where I’m going). I primarily use my phone to make payments, and I don’t have a traditional wallet, but I do have a slim card-holder that carries my debit card, driving licence and one or two other important cards.
Take that for what you will, I guess!
That’s a wallet bro.
Source: am millennial and have slim wallet
I also heard by the socks. Millennials do no-show, but apparently high socks are the style now? Those will never not look super dorky to me, so I guess I’m old now.
Fashion is cyclical
Cynical, too
the only constant is that it’s pretentious
Thigh highs are where it’s at nowadays :3
Millenial here, I never got on board with the no show or low cut or ankle cut or whatever socks, crew socks always. Probably not en vogue with any age group, but I also don’t care. They go great with my cargo shorts.
Crew socks… crunched down ti the height of ankle socks.
I roll them down to make a decorative ankle donut that looks great over my crocs
There’s a lot to unpack here.
Millennial here, I carry a very small wallet, which holds:
- ID
- health insurance card
- library card
- 2 credit cards
- $50 bill
Sometimes I’ll add a debit card if I might need cash for some reason.
If I didn’t need the first three, I’d probably risk not bringing one.
Where else do I keep the cash I need for food truck stops? Like, the good ones that look like a moving hole in the wall. None of this newfangled hipster food truck with pos devices.
Last time I was in TX, one of my favorite food trucks had a sign that said “no longer excepting cash payments”. I laughed at the grammatical error, but was still a little sad about losing the option to pay with real money. It wasn’t hipster at all, but I guess the clientele was.
Anyway, yes. I see your point but a lot of places realize they have to get modern or fail. It makes me sad to think about.
How can they not accept legal tender? I’m pretty sure that’s against the law.
I don’t really know what the legality of this is. The best explanation I can come up with is: Texas.
I looked it up and there’s no federal law but states can and some do.
I understand why, I just don’t like it.
So yeah, I think I’m getting old 🤣🤣🤣
Get a phone wallet
I don’t even use a case, I hate the trend of phones back towards bulky and will resist any attempt to add to their mass.
I prefer it when my phone doesn’t slide out of my pocket.
Your phone slides out of your pocket? Do your pockets have really wide mouths that expose half of the side?
I skate and am semi active sometimes so even if it didn’t fly out, it’s a good idea to protect it in case I land on it.
Ooh that’s fair, mine is usually tucked away in a soft space when I’m being active.
Spigen has some good drop tested cases that are pretty thin.
I’ll have to take a look, thanks!
this is what I see many z and alpha doing, if they’re not just shoving cards and cash into a loose cheap case
This and saving small businesses the obsurd credit card fees. I use my card for the smallest amounts at chain and big stores. At local business, cash is king.
I hadn’t even thought about the fees, I was just using what was convenient for the business and I want that business to succeed because those tacos are so damn good.
What’s wild is how much easier cash is to not report and commit tax evasion.
I’m cool tipping in cash knowing the server isn’t reporting it all. I’m also cool with street taco vendors not reporting it too. I think the majority of people are, at least where I’m from.
But one of the things I learned about doing business is always make it easy for people to pay. It doesn’t matter the means, but if you want more sales make it easy for the customer to pay you. Whether it’s cash, card, or venmo. If you make it tough or restrict the method, you’ll lose sales
that’s exactly why I always try to tip with cash. when I pay in cash for food, I have no issue if the business wants to pocket it and keep a little extra something for themselves that uncle sam can’t touch. taxes are important, but workers can have a little personal gain, as a treat. plus, credit companies don’t need to get their beaks wet everytime I buy something.
But one of the things I learned about doing business is always make it easy for people to pay.
the weirdest thing I see regularly is “no cash” signs for vendors. I understand some places don’t want to deal with giving change, or holding large amounts of cash at outdoor events, or making lines go quicker, etc. it’s just strange that the most concrete form of regulated currency we have is turned down so often now.
Plus you can avoid tax which is always nice.
Good 'ol roach coach.
Well, to put it in perspective, anyone older than 20 is “old” to the youngest generation.
I’d kill to be 30 again. That’s the age when you’re in your physical and mental prime, you’ll never be biologically or mentally better than then. And I was a skinny, purty, strong, smart sumbitch then. But I was too insecure to take advantage of it.
My 30’s was the most amazing time of my life. I had just spent ten years in the army, gotten deployed for what felt like most of it, and unceremoniously honorable discharged due to force reduction.
I didn’t know what to do, had a job I hated, and decided to just go to bars and crash at a buddy’s place who agreed to let me live there for free as a house sitter.
It was so many years of debauchery because I was in great shape, had some hope left for the world, and didn’t care because I was no longer in a shitty deployment.
Older millienal. I bought the phone case wallet. Opens like a book. I’ll admit, when it arrived and I slapped my new phone in it, I realized I’ve only ever seen old man and women use this kind of case. Felt weird for all of ten seconds. I fucking love it.
That being said, I am surprised how many people are asking where people keep their cards and cash. A lot of people literally just use pockets. Like, they raw dog cash, id, some credit or debit cards and got like 2 or 3 loose keys. Don’t get me wrong, they are crazy people and I will literally laugh at them when they wonder aloud where their card is, they JUST had it. But it’s a lot of em. (Worked in retail over a decade, still work in a field where I ask people for their stuff and payment).
Gen z here… Everyone around me has wallets
Tbf I am in Berlin, the cash capital of the world, but still.
Yeah, that is bullshit. For Germany at least.
Germany is a backwards nightmare coming from the UK. No self checkout with contactless payment. Instead you queue behind 5 people in Reve, each one counting out coins to pay exactly for whatever they’ve bought.
Rewe added self checkout this year.
Excellent news. Just the public transport tickets left to fix. Why on earth did they emulate paper ticket strips in the transport payment apps?
Not every phone has NFC. Even from 2022.
Probably, so they work with the existing infrastructure.
I prefer self checkout too so I’m not bothered, but it’s really not a big deal.
I guess I’m kicked out of gen z, I got a thicc leather wallet
Does it bulge out of your gray pants that have eleastic on the bottom? If so, you are still squarely in gen Z territory.
What’s the point of a thick leather wallet though? I got one of those ultrathin and ultralight wallets like 7 years ago. Still in perfect condition vs when I had a leather wallet that looked like crap after 2 years and it’s so much nicer to carry around.
I have a kinda thick wallet, but it was a gift (and a relatively pricey one too), so I try to use it to its fullest.
I will probably replace it with a much thinner one when it falls apart.
Sometimes you find one you just happen to like.
I have a trifold, happens to match my particular weird aesthetic.
Idk As a gen z every other gen z I know has a wallet
I’m 42 and I have some cash wrapped around a few cards held together with a rubber band lol it works better than any wallet I’ve ever owned
I guess I’m a millennial at 21
To be fair the school I went to was trapped in the mid 90s so I still regularly saw VHS tapes and Windows XP for most of my K through 8th grade years
Err Windows xp launched in October 2001, not the 90’s. The ‘successor’ version, Vista, launched in 2007, really only for home use. Windows 7, the successor for schools, offices etc, released 2009.
Vista was supposed to be for everyone, just too many companies didn’t take security seriously enough back then.
Win7 was just Vista with a PR upgrade.
You’re just responsible. There’s a lot of physical cards you still need to function as an adult and, quite frankly, half of them come up when you’re in a car accident and if your plan for that is “it’s on my phone” your plan is bad.
There’s no guarantee either your phone or your skull won’t be cracked when that happens, if nothing else.
This. Electronics like to just not work when you really really need them.
Gen X. Don’t use a wallet. Where do I fit in to this theory?
In my country you need to carry a few cards, such as ID and drivers license. So yeah, at least i need something to carry those.
Gen Xers love wallets. Back in the '90s, you had to have a wallet so you could wear a wallet chain.
The outlier with a credit score under 700 and cashless, probably uses apple pay.
The theory is about millenials having wallets. You’re not a millenial and you don’t have a wallet. No contradictions here.
What, kids don’t carry drugs anymore? What is the world coming to
I have little drug pouch for that
Yeah, a wallet. But the kind with the zipper. You gotta carry ID on you depending on your lifestyle. Why make your drugs pouch different from your money and card pouch
Eh, most Millenials don’t have “wallets” like older generations had either.
The giant 3-5 inch thick monstrosities.
Even 20 years ago a lot of Gen X had made the switch to just a flat card hold with a couple 20s slid in.
A Millenial with one of those would say they have a wallet. A Gen Z with the same thing would say they had a card holder.
So I think a big part of this is just language evolving.
GenX here, I had to get a rodeo wallet to hold all my shit.
this seems totally made up, lol. im at the tail end of gen z and all my friends use wallets. mine may usually be empty, but how else you gon carry your ID and shit? “sorry officer I don’t have ID, wallets are for oldheads”
I mean as long as you aren’t doing something that requires an ID, it’s totally reasonable not to have one.
well sure, i’m in one of those american states where you have to drive to do anything though. forgot it’s not like that everywhere
One of them? That’s pretty much all of them. There’s a handful of cities where you can avoid driving, but not many.
