My wife got me a nice, slim leather wallet (by Jack Spade, I believe.) A simple, attractive billfold. I like the looks of it so am motivitated to ruthlessly purge it at the first sign of bulge, for aesthetic reasons. I’m going to check out a Jimi, however, for travel, sports, etc— occasions where you don’t need all of your stuff with you.

Tiny Meat (www.tinymeat.com) has great, thin platicky/vinyl wallets - holds a little more than the hard plastic “Jimi”, but a lot less than a traditional wallet. It holds up well too - I’ve had mine since December, and its still in great condition.

The Retro51 Notebook Wallet and Pen is simple and you can replace the pen with your favorite space pen.

Retro51 Notebook Wallet.

I use a combination of a metal card holder/money clip, it’s very slim and hold about 4 cards, (Bank Card, Credit Card, Corp AMEX, and ID in my case). Fit’s in my front pocket, so no potential for back pain from a bulging wallet.

I have been a front pocket wallet user ever since my dad, and come to think of it his dad, taught me this as the “proper way” to carry ones money. Of course dear old Dad has a Constanza wallet in his right front trouser pocket, but that’s another issue.

I am a “Slim Slimmy” man now, though I have gone through a few other variations on the theme. I live in Norway, where you can do nearly everything either electronically or via your bankcard (debit visa) and the bankcard is considered official indentification while the driver’s license is not. Consequently, I just carry three cards most days: debit visa, driver’s license, and a US visa or AMEX. I don’t bother putting bills into the wallet, I just put a few hundred kroner (30usd or so) into my pocket with it. If I need to carry coins or get change during the day, that goes into my other front pocket. Keys, phone, PDA, transit pass: into my jacket pockets, computer bag, briefcase, or occasionally my “European Carryall” (it’s not a purse, dammit!).

I rarely put anything into my back pockets other than a guitar pick or sometimes my office badge when I go to the cantina.

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I go with the money clip with card holder attached, although it is getting bulky now. I need a new solution soon, but when my money clip is full will a new solution come to fruit. I just couldn’t stand the wallet anymore, the fat thing on my ass making me sit sideways causing back problems. Now my problem with the money clip that I have is that it looks like I am carrying a large wallet in my front pocket…maybe if I stopped wearing leather pants this wouldn’t be an issue, I mean I switched to clip from wallet when I started wearing leather ass chaps so….(ok that last part was a joke.)

I threw the wallet out a good ten years back. I had always been a minimalist, and for a long time had a silky black ripstop number that added practically nothing in terms of thickness, but then that wore out and I could not find a suitable alternative.

Eventually I realized that I could get away with one credit card / debit card, my ID a few business cards and a luck $2 bill folded small between the lot. I fold my large bills around this, and hold everything together with a large stainless steel butterfly clip. Butterfly clips are great, they last for ever, look good, are easy to slip over my bills and add practically no thickness to my minimal bill fold. One added advantage is that when I go to Europe my wallet system still works (Euro bills are way larger than US bills). Small bills and change sit in my front pocket.

All this talk of minimalist wallets inspired me to move my IDs, a couple of credit cards, some business cards, and some bills into the pockets of my Levenger Pocket Briefcase, which I carry everywhere anyway (GTD notes). Like a previous post, this and my Blackberry gives me everything I need!

I might go with the International Pocket Briefcase if this continues to work out well.

Here’s my personal key to mimimalism… cash-less society.

I only carry plastic, carrying cash is soo 20th century. Com’on the ROMANs were using coins, haven’t we gotten past that?