How exactly does that work? Unless your state/province has a digital ID, you need to carry at least that around. Then you gotta keep some cash for the odd place that doesn’t do credit because they’re in the Stone Age. I also keep a card for those places that don’t do tap, because of course they exist.
I’m in my mid 30s and I haven’t carried a wallet in about 6 years. I switched to a phone case with a slot for IDs. Then 3 years ago I dropped that and only carry my phones. My ID stays in my tool bag since it goes with me everywhere I need it. However I don’t even bother carrying it when I’m out and not driving. I just with my dam province would implement a proper digital ID.
I love how millennial has become the new code for old. Gen X has been skipped again. As always.
Where else am I supposed to keep my moths?
It is called redundancy. I can pay with my card, my phone and my watch. The watch was a meaningless purchase though, it contributes little to my life.
If I’m not going far, not driving or not planning on spending much then yes, wallet stays at home.
Otherwise, if I’m driving then I’m taking my driving license with me (you never know), if I’m making a purchase over the contactless limit then I need to take my actual card with me anyway, or if I’m away for a longer period then I might need cards that I don’t have linked to my phone (like my corporate card - like fuck am I putting that in my phone).
And for all that, I’d rather have a wallet instead of just a loose amalgamation of plastic in my pockets.
I get it you can pay with your phone these days. But I also have an ID and a public transportation card which can’t be on my phone. Also I have cash on me. Where to keep that? Every time I pull out my phone or keys money falls out of I keep it loosely in there. I know Gen Z doesn’t have any money, but where do you keep your drivers licence and public transportation card? And insurance card? Where do you keep your drugs then? I have some coke and keta in there as well. Putting it in my pockets and it ends up in the washing machine. And I keep a set of earplugs in there for when I go to a party or concert. Because I would always forget to grab them, I now have them with me all the time.
Admittedly, I only have a couple of gen Z friends, but they both have the biggest wallets of anyone I know.
Are they named George Costanza?
Yep. Teacher here. They (almost) all have wallets.
My fellow millennials are usually the ones who have their entire lives on their phones or just those little metal card cases.
Millennial with a hairband for a wallet here.
My wallet isn’t owned by a tech conglomerate that has access and admin privileges to everything inside of it. Also, I just don’t want my phone to be everything, especially my I.D.
License, registration, and proof of insurance
Mind if I see your phone? It’s just hard to read.
OH INTERESTING CONVERSATION YOU HAD WITH “WALGREENS GUY” ABOUT “SANDWICHES” HOW ABOUT YOU STEP OUTTA THE CAR
Is sandwiches drugs
Officer, I will not answer questions without my attorney present.
Ha, joke’s on you. I don’t have a car.
My phone’s dead. Guess I’m broke until I find a charger.
Yeah, humans still occasionally acquire important small pieces of paper or plastic that are convenient to stow in some type of small container that can be keep on the person, what a shock.
Let me break out my checkbook in the grocery store line and watch their souls leave their bodies.
Paying with cash is the most private method. I hope it stays.
Some ATMs track the serial numbers of the bills you get. Even then, though, it’s more private than a card. Unless they have video of you shoving the bills into a machine for payment, say at Walmart self-checkout, they really don’t know how many hands the bills passed through before they passed through a reader again. Also, good if you can get a store to break the large bills for you. Then, they only know that you paid for a pack of gum with a 100-dollar bill.
You already can’t in so many places. I thought it was required to accept cash, but apparently that’s only for paying the government.
Cash is required to be accepted to clear a debt.
Cash is not required to be accepted to make a purchase.
Still infuriating. I have actual money but can’t use it? Ugh.
That’s how I understand it. Cash is legal tender and has to be accepted to clear debts, so restaurants where you pay after you eat might not be able to refuse cash (though I don’t think there’s a requirement to provide change), though they can refuse all future business with you.
You mean Friends lied to me!?
that’s dumb. I have a wallet and so does everyone else I know in my age. Im gEn Z. these stupid generational labels make no sense
This is a pretty old meme. I can’t remember the context anymore
Maybe marketing for phone payments
Even if you pay by phone, there is so much other stuff in my Wallet.
From what I can tell in this thread, most people carry wallets outside of generational divides, and the post is BS. There is also a significant number of generational-independent psychopaths who have absolutely unhinged systems like “I just carry lose cards in my pocket because I don’t want to take ten minutes picking out a wallet at the store.”
I strayed into not taking a wallet out with me briefly, then I realised my life shouldn’t rely on Apple or Android (or my (lack of) ability to charge devices).
A guy in front me at the grocery store had to ditch a cart full of items because his phone was dead.
Super embarrassing for them.
Exactly. We should decrease our dependency on these companies, not increase it.
I wouldn’t mind that so much if those payment methods were more universally accepted, but they aren’t.
I use a wallet case so I can put cards in the back of my phone case instead of carrying a wallet.
My state doesn’t accept your license/id to be digital, id also have to walk a few miles before I found the nearest sidewalk, so the idea of going anywhere without a wallet it absurd.
I’ve worked in IT support/Security for too long to have any of my cards just a short nfc tap away from being used/stolen from.
Don’t you need to unlock the phone to activate the NFC chip though?
Yes, but cards can just be read
Kinda. Have you tried using an NFC reader with your phone’s tap to pay? You didn’t get the actual card data. It’s all tokenized now. If I remember the details correctly, the merchant sends a token that they partly generate and add the token data the get from your card and they send that to the payment processor, and it’s only really usable at that point in time. So if I was wandering around with a high powered NFC antenna I’d need to be running a merchant terminal ready to charge them. I can’t harvest the data to sell later or anything like that. So the risk is pretty heavily mitigated.
That being said, I still use a wallet with NFC and RFID blocking
Hmmm, that is good to know! I have an RFID blocking wallet too just in case
Then you’re well aware that it doesn’t work while the card is in a typical wallet.
