How many cards in your wallet?

[RizzoTheRat]

I just looked at my wallet in response to something on the thread below about wallets, and realised I have way too much crap in mine.

4 debit cards (1 expired a year ago!)
2 credit cards
Easyjet plus (expired!)
Museum membership
Parkrun barcode
Health insurance
Chipkarte (local equivalent of Oyster)
Driving licence
ID
Supermarket loyalty card
2 stamp cards from coffee shops


So 13 full sized cards, 1 keytag sized one, and 2 bits of stiff card rather than plastic

I need to have a clear out. Anyone else as bad?

[Zumbruk]

Please post pictures of the front and back of them.

[dundarach]

Credit
Debit
Driving License
Two old £10 notes I found in my mums house after she died

AND

My C E X card - fk you all! (unless you have one naturally)

[Mark Asread]

Stopped carrying a wallet years ago. I have been caught out only once in a shop that couldn't take contactless, but that was some time ago. I doubt there's anywhere (and certainly nowhere critical) that I can't swipe my phone now.

I keep all my store cards in the stocard app.

[Sheets Tabuer]

In Debrett's Guide for the Modern Gentleman it states a gentleman should have no more than three credit cards.

One wouldn't want to be seen paying with a vulgar debit card either I'd imagine.

Edited by Sheets Tabuer on Monday 13th December 12:37

[anonymous-user]

Tesco Club Card
Sainsbury Nectar Card
Santander Debit Card
Santander Joint account Card
Driving Licence

Not had any cash in there for years.

[joshleb]

I've got a secrid wallet, so in the main section I have:
3 x Debit (1 day to day, 1 joint account, 1 with a bit more money on)
1 x credit
1 x driving licence

Then in the sides I have:
CSCS site card
Office access card
Coffee shop stamps

All of my cards are on Apple Pay so rarely use them to pay with, but I just like having them with me just in case.

[anonymous-user]

Sheets Tabuer said:

In Debrett's Guide for the Modern Gentleman it states a gentleman should have no more than credit cards.

One wouldn't want to be seen paying with a vulgar debit card either I'd imagine.

Having the money is vulgar, yet paying with a credit card is the sign of a gentleman? How did we get to a situation so messed up that debt is seen as the new being rich?

When I see people paying by credit card I just assume they are poor and don't have any money.

[RizzoTheRat]

Mark Asread said:

Stopped carrying a wallet years ago. I have been caught out only once in a shop that couldn't take contactless, but that was some time ago. I doubt there's anywhere (and certainly nowhere critical) that I can't swipe my phone now.

Since getting Garmin Pay I rarely carry mine either, hence why there's so much crap in there I guess, but got caught out recently as I needed ID as well my Covid app QR code to get in to the sport center to the use the loo the other week...so had to go an use a tree instead.

Joey Deacon said:

Having the money is vulgar, yet paying with a credit card is the sign of a gentleman? How did we get to a situation so messed up that debt is seen as the new being rich?

Strange isn't it

Credit cards are relatively uncommon here, I think my standard credit limit is about a weeks salary. I only use for things like reserving a hotel on the phone, anything else is done by debit card (usually via Garmin Pay).

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Monday 13th December 12:44

[boombang]

After being burgled back in August I've not bothered replacing half the crap.

2 credit (Amex, Barclaycard Visa for non-Amex accepting and overseas spend)
2 debit (joint and my sole account)
driving license
2 x £1 coins in case need a trolley at LIDL when doing a beer run (well worth it) and drop the first one down a drain (genuine life lesson)

[K50 DEL]

Going on the posts so far, I think I'm doing something wrong

Costco card
Currys gift card (from last xmas, not got around to using it yet)
Co-Op loyalty card
GHIC card
Texaco star rewards card
IHG Platinum card
Subway loyalty card
Kitchens cookshop loyalty card
UK Driving license
NI card
National Trust card
Debit card for main current a/c
Tesco clubcard
Morrisons loyalty card
screwfix card
Nectar card
Debit card for second UK current a/c
Credit card
Costa loyalty card
£380 cash
£20 high street vouchers (from last xmas also)
a few receipts

The cards I use less often (foreign bank accounts and licenses etc) are kept in a separate wallet so as not to clutter the main one too much!

[GetCarter]

One.

[alock]

Two
- Curve card (which is configured with 5 cards)
- Debit card (I still don't 100% trust the curve card)

[QuartzDad]

15 cards and a bunch of notes and receipts.

Debit card x 2
Credit card x 4
Charge card x 2
Casino cards x 2
Nectar
Driving licence
Priority Pass
Costco
GHIC

[Zoon]

None, I use my phone.

[Truckosaurus]

The OP, pictured earlier...

[Radec]

Cleaned mine out a couple of months ago.
Thought it was long overdue after I found a Blockbuster Video membership card in there.

[RizzoTheRat]

Truckosaurus said:

The OP, pictured earlier...

I just checked, about a dozen receipts (none of which I need), 1 train ticket (from September) and half a dozen notes, so not quite that bad

Radec said:

Thought it was long overdue after I found a Blockbuster Video membership card in there.

[Bacon Is Proof]

Walletless since smartphone ownership.
Old enough to have a proper folding leather case so I can carry £100 odd emergency/tipping money.
Only have one card saved on my phone, a debit card from my spending account.
Buying on tick is definitely for the poor and foolhardy.

[Jonathan27]

Two wallets

One that sticks to the back of my phone. With two cards. A debit and an Amex (both in Euros)

UK Wallet (I live in the UK and Ireland) One Debit, one UK Amex and driving License and national trust membership card.

It would have been dozens more if it weren't for apps that can store things like loyalty cards and memberships.