Apparently it’s a trend that most men just receive wallets rather than buying them

  • SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    I never got one as a gift I really wanted to use. Care nothing for style, but look for practicality for me. After much trial and error have found a trifold made of sailcloth to be most lasting and useful for my sloppy wallet needs.

  • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    YOU CAN BUY YOURSELF ANYTHING YOU WANT ESPECIALLY A WALLET

    srry this just reads as “duh my bros is it geyy to git yerself a wallet” NO JUST BUY ONE

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    When I was younger, yeah.

    I think wallets are for people nobody knows what to buy for. Like getting them a tie. No hobbies, no interests, no personal declarations of what they might like. Or people just don’t know them well enough to get anything other than some generic gift like a wallet.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    7 days ago

    No, I saw a wallet that was exactly what I was looking for and bought it. I’ve carried it for years. The last time someone else bought me a wallet it was just a generic bulky one.

  • protokaiser@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    A friend made me a duct tape wallet in high school. My brother hated it, had won a contest, and spent some of.his winnings ona new wallet for me. It’s been close to 20 years.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 days ago

      I made some amazing tape wallets back in the day. One of them was so well made it lasted more than 1 year.

      Funny enough I recently ended up finding a brand that makes paper “leather” slim wallets. Mine is lredy a few years old https://www.andersundkomisch.de/

  • TriflingToad@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I bought mine

    Works well as a lanyard too, ADHD would be having me leave it everywhere if it weren’t strapped to my noggin

  • Marty_TF@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    i only bouhgt my current one myself

    the ones before were all gifts from my grandpa, and the last one lasted 11 years and i know he would have liked the one i bought. really tried to pick one he would have gifted me :)

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    7 days ago

    Both yes and no. I’ve received most of my wallets was a gift, but people have crappy tastes, so I ended up buying my own.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I wanted a wallet that could hold a bunch of cards as slimly as possible, and as such I got myself an All-ett almost a decade ago. It’s an unusual wallet, and therefore highly unlikely that anybody gifting me one would have picked the same thing.

    (It’s a great wallet BTW, and I highly recommend it. It’s held up perfectly over the years, which is more than I can say for any leather wallet I’ve owned. Unfortunately, I just saw that the new ones are RFID-blocking, which might tempt me to upgrade even though this one would continue to last…)

  • dumbass@leminal.space
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    7 days ago

    I keep getting wallets as gifts even though everyone knows I don’t use a wallet, I have a collection of wallets that will never feel the back of my ass.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 days ago

      I really should get a new one. I think I bought one when I was 16, and another at 20. 15 years later it is falling apart but still have the same one. I wonder if that means I haven’t had a good friend or family member to buy me a wallet for 15 years. Sobering thought haha

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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    7 days ago

    I got mine indeed as a gift, I think 23 years ago or so, when I lived with some other kids. Thought about replacing it with something smaller, like a card holder, but couldn’t really find anything suitable for me.