Out with the old wallet and in with the new one

Let me start off by saying, I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and is looking forward to a Happy New Year. I hope fellowship with family and friends was at the forefront of your celebrations and you had the chance to reconnect with people you might not see that often.

A tradition across most households in our country during Christmas is the exchanging of gifts. My wife and I unfortunately had to postpone hosting my family’s side Christmas due to being sick over the past week but we still were able to exchange gifts with each other. One thing Kaitlyn got me for Christmas was a sleek, metal wallet. Or maybe it’s just a card holder. I’m not sure. I’ll just call it an apparatus. The apparatus holds my debit cards, driver’s license and any other cards I choose to carry along with me (including an old Happy Joe’s pizza coupon from around 2010) between two metal plates that are held together by elastic bands. That’s pretty much all there is to the apparatus minus a clip on one side to hold very small amounts of cash or whatever other paper squares you can fold into a two by one inch rectangle.

It’s very simple and it’s definitely something I’m not used to yet. I listen to the Dan LeBatard with Stugotz podcast religiously and on the podcast, one of the older members of the cast does a segment called “Back in My Day.” The premise behind the segment is that he picks something that isn’t like it used to be in the mid to late 1900s. In some ways, I feel like I’m copying some of his work because as of right now, I miss my old bifold wallet that could carry unlimited amounts of coupons, gift cards, cash, receipts, pictures, business cards and anything else I could put my mind to. I found myself reminiscing fondly on sitting on that old wallet and breaking in the fake leather to a point where the finish had started to disintegrate. It brought me back to a time where I remembered my grandpa had a wallet so thick that it probably caused one of his buttocks to be smaller than the other due to the imprint the thickness of the wallet probably left. I wouldn’t have been surprised to find a grocery store receipt from the 1980s in that wallet. I guess that’s how we evolve. What once was a simple bifold wallet, eventually evolved into a trifold wallet. Some people skipped the wallet experience all together and carried around a checkbook instead. Now we have things like the apparatus which I don’t put in my back pocket at all. It’ll jingle around in my front pocket with my keys, phone and other items. Some day, when everything is run off of a face scan and there’ll be no need for an apparatus or wallet at all, I’ll tell my kids or grandkids about how wallets were the lifeline that organized a generation, and that’s how it was, back in my day.

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