T/S: Wallet or Money Clip?

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For about 20 years, I was paranoid about having my pocket picked, so I used a money clip that held cash, my driver's license and a credit card. I won a wallet with $15 in it in a game of Dirty Santa this past Christmas, so I've gone back to a wallet for the first time in forever. What do you use?

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 January 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

What on earth is a money clip?

I use a wallet. There was a phase when I got pickpocketed twice in about six months, so I got a wallet with a chain. I have since dispensed with the chain but kept the wallet. However, I'm a girl so I can keep it in my handbag.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

I never carry enough cash to justify a money clip.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 16 January 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Money Clip:

In my case it usually clipped three ones, the D.L., the debit card and my Kroger card.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 January 2006 19:36 (twenty years ago)

See, to me that seems like it would be *more* likely to be lost or stolen because it's so small.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Dennis Farina did a thing on TV once where he said to keep your credit cards & ID in a wallet, and your money in a clip - so if you get mugged, you can throw down the money clip and run, and all you've lost is some cash. Oh, and you're supposed to say, "It's my great credit card, and you can't have any" as you run.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Monday, 16 January 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Is the idea that the money clip gets carried in your front pocket, where you'd maybe notice if someone else had their hand in there?

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 16 January 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Yes, exactly. For the last three weeks, before going out I've been prone to patting my front pockets and panicking for half a sec because I've lost my D.L.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 16 January 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

i have out-austered everyone by simply carrying folded bills and cards in my pocket. it's a post-wallet, post-money clip mentality and one day you will be advanced enough to receive the fullness of its, its wisdom.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 00:15 (twenty years ago)

actually my wallet got stolen and i haven't gotten a new one yet.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

i have out-austered everyone by simply carrying folded bills and cards in my pocket.

I did that for years. Cash in front pocket, bank card in back pocket. Didn't need anything else.

I don't think people in Britain use money clips. I don't know why.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 00:19 (twenty years ago)

One rare time, I won the fight with my dad over who would pay the lunch check. We get to the register, and I pull out my wallet, and Dad says, "You carry a billfold?" He said it like I had just pulled out a purse and had some tampons fall out.

I don't care. I still carry a wallet. It's fake leather embossed with wolves.

Here's what my dad's money clip looks like:

http://www.geocities.com/elvis9227/rubber28.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 00:21 (twenty years ago)

i hate loose change being in my pockets, so i have to carry a wallet. tho whenever i go clubbing i wish i had a less Bulky alternative

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 00:24 (twenty years ago)

I've used a paperclip ever since I saw Tom Cruise doing it in Vanilla Sky. Way cool.

Alba is right to say that people in Britain don't use money clips. My paperclip is a conversation starter here. I dread to think what would happen if I got out a moneyclip.

― Mike W (caek), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 00:28 (twenty years ago)

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