Posted on 12/22/2008 4:16:42 PM PST by pharmamom
I’d venture a guess too that the expensive from Nordstrom will not only outlast, but will also be happily exchanged if you missed the mark, or refunded. Cheap stores don’t have the class that Nordstrom does. You pay for service at Nordy’s, and you get it.
I just bought a soft leather bi-fold for about 3.99 as a present. Could have bought a soft leather tri-fold for the same price.
Thats not my wallet! its just a “costanza wallet”
I havent seen a “C” note since I was 24!
You do know it was men who carried purses 1st? Indeed, since men had “the money”, and bet on their horses beating each other, they called the pot for the race “the purse” (which early on was grabbed at the end of the race) and still do.
LOL!
In fact the only clip I keep in my back pockets are .45 clips.
If it fits .. it goes in .. we leave it on the dresser until our women take whatever it is, throws it away, we complain, "I NEEDED that !!!" .. and forget about it.
OR
We bring it home and it goes in the junk drawer ... 'cause y'never know when you'll need it.
OR
We even sometimes have an epiphany and realize it's junk, and we throw it away .... after about 3 years of staring at it on the dresser.
Nothing mystical about it, really.
Hope that helps.
A beloved woman bought me a wallet that was a tri-fold, it carried a Costanza load of junk in addition. It was like sitting on top of a phone book.
She was upset when I went back to my slim bi-fold that carries... one bank card...one credit card...drivers license... two checks and a deposit slip...and a seldom used blockbuster card... and a couple bucks.
Are you suggesting I’m blond? I don’t even resemble that remark!
And so there you are, bereft of a caring mate considerate enough to take pity on you trying to hold your stuff together with a rubber band, trying to decide if maybe it's time to shift over to one of those trucker's wallets that secures to your belt with a chain (it drives your date mad with passion when you break it out to pay for a meal at an expensive French restaurant and if a fistfight breaks out, hey, you got a chain!) or maybe that trifold ballistic nylon one that secures with velcro and looks so slim and trim in the gas station you buy it from but when you put your stuff in it ends up as thick as a baby's fist.
A modest suggestion - whatever you purchase is likely to end up in a box in a drawer until its owner is in extremis anyhow, at which time the choice will be the elegant specimen on hand or another trip to the 7/11 in the rain. If he doesn't also need an auto air freshener the one in the box will eventually get put to use. Unless it's too nice.
I'd recommend a plain leather bifold, NO funky little pockets and for God's sake no zippers! Enough card slots for a credit card, driver's license, concealed carry permit, and a 10th-visit-free card at the local topless bistro. Or whatever. I have never entirely understood the fixation with carrying pictures of one's loved ones inasmuch as you're carrying them on your butt and sitting on them all day long. Others' mileage will vary.
I have a nylon trifold, myself. I don't like it all that much but I feel obligated to use it because it was a Christmas present from my 5-year-old nephew. Who is now getting ready to graduate from high school.
It's the most convenient and unobtrusive wallet I've ever had. Now my pants bulge only where they're supposed to.
oh, knarf...that is what the verb “guatemala” was invented for...my husband collects “items;” I throw them away. Sometimes I’m not fast enough, and he rescues them. My guiding principle is “he’ll never even notice it’s gone.”
Expressing an opinion on a shoe choice doesn't necessarily require caring about it. :=) Sometimes, just the expressing of an acceptable opinion is sufficient.
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Precisely! Besides, even a macho, he-man, all-the-way-hetero male like my husband can tell me if I look funny. My fashion sense is pretty good, but every once in awhile, I get corn-fused. And sometimes, it’s just a way of getting a compliment! (No one else notices how I’m dressed. I think I could walk into my offices starkers and the doctors would just sign my paper and walk away.)
I broke up with a gal and one of the reasons was the shoes she wore. But it wasn’t fashion (or maybe it was) it was the impracticality of wearing silly shoes for a day she wanted to spend with me at Sea World (walking and standing all day).
I don't like the tri-folds for that reason. They can get way too thick easily. Also, get one that has a separate pocket for just a driver's license and another ID or picture.
I second the Big Skinny wallet. Thin, light, durable, holds all I need.
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