Ever since I’ve had my alluminum wallet, it’s been really easy to pay for things. Which is a good thing, as long as you–um, you know–pay your bills on time. A lot of people see it and are like “What the hell is that?” (mainly it’s cashiers and club bouncers, who are really the only people I need to use my wallet in front of). “It’s a wallet,” I say, “and it’s the most awesome thing ever.”
Seriously. It’s probably the one gadget that I use on a consistent, near-everyday basis and it really makes things so much easier. All your credit cards slide into the front part. The switches on the top go from left to right, which correspond to top to bottom. My setup goes “Driver’s License, DISC, Visa, MC, Visa (facing left), MC (facing left).” A little card comes with the thing so you can customize the switches. I have the corresponding logos in place, except for the driver’s license, where I use the button with the “camera” picture, since it’s holding my photo ID (and I don’t have a car–it’s really kind of useless in the city).
The switches slide towards the front of the wallet and kind of nudge out each card just enough so you can grab the edge. It might look like they are spring-loaded buttons, but they’re not. When you think about it, that would be pretty useless, since the buttons would be getting hit all the time by other stuff in your bag, or just by sitting, if you put it in your front pocket.
So when I go to pay for something, I just look at the top and choose the switch that holds the card I want. I use that card, then I slide it back into the slot. If you keep all the slots full, you automatically end up putting your card back where you found it, which is something I never used to do when I had a traditional (silver PVC–ha, I really like silver) wallet. First, my old wallet only had 3 card slots, plus the ID window, so I had to double-up the cards and I could never remember what was behind what other card. So after I finally dug it out and used it, I would end up stuffing the card, along with the reciept, in the cash section just cause it was too hard to try and jam the card back under another card, especially when there were 6 impatient people waiting behind me in line.
And it’s not just good for credit cards–there’s a money clip on the back where you can fold bills and reciepts and store them. The company now also makes replacement money clips with more space, so you can store even MORE cash, or stash a stack of business cards (which I acutally do use my clip for).
So there ya go–a neat little thing that makes my life easier. You can get your own one here.
Liz’s Silver Wallet
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