Apparently it’s a trend that most men just receive wallets rather than buying them
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.
If you want a good wallet you buy it
I don’t want gift wallets, there are like 0 chances I get what I want. Sometimes even for the ones I buy by myself.
I don’t know, the pockets, the flatness… everything needs to fit right.
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
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.
Not for me.
I currently have three wallets, all made by Saddleback Leather1. They’re expensive but the company’s tagline is ‘your kids will fight over it when you’re dead’.
I have a standard bi-fold which I have actually semi-retired in this modern age of pinging payments with my phone, a classic tall, slim wallet for an inside suit jacket pocket, and my everyday carry card wallet which has three bank cards, my driving license, and £100 emergency ‘shit they don’t take phone pinging payment’ situations.
Edit to add: I don’t anticipate ever needing to buy another wallet in my life. These are solid.
[1] Saddleback leather is owned and run by a guy called Dave Munson who is a self-described ‘faith driven entrepreneur’. I don’t care what the dude believes.
I use the business card holder as my wallet. I bought two at the same time, I’m still using the first one after 10 years or so, and I don’t know when I might ever have to replace it with the spare. And for anyone wondering, it stretches over time and I have about 10 credit/cards in it.
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.
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.
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/
Wallets are good gifts until a guy is like 25-30. Then he’ll buy the style he likes for himself.
I have never had a wallet bought for me. Probably wouldn’t want one either, because I don’t use traditional wallets, but rather a card wallet that keeps them all flat so they don’t crack down the middle.
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
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 :)
My daily carry wallet is… Damn over 12 years old now, and was a gift ha.
I have bought most I think but I have received some as gifts too.
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.
