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    Guy Trek
    BPL Member

    @trek_guy

    I ran across this cool minimalist wallet on Kickstarter. Looks like availability is "January 2013" (soon).

    http://www.suprgood.com/the-slim-wallet/

    #1940859
    Rob E
    Spectator

    @eatsleepfish

    Locale: Canada

    Looks cool, but I think I'd rather have one of these things: http://www.simblissity.net/litefold_b-line.htm

    #1940865
    Bradley Attaway
    Member

    @attaboybrad

    Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

    There's also this: http://goo.gl/Dmq3P, and http://goo.gl/bT3Ix, and http://goo.gl/oNupX. Probably a dozen others.

    That said, I'm really missing the point of any of these wallets. Once you're down to carrying as little as most of these wallets should hold, there seems little improvement in function over a rubber band or other improvisation.

    Likewise, if you're still carrying a wad of currency and eleventeen different loyalty cards, a minimalist wallet will do less for you than paring down the chaff stuffed in your pockets.

    I personally carry only a debit card, transit card, and ID. A couple bills stuffed in a front pocket for the rare cash-only transaction and perhaps my single motorcycle key (I'm still baffled at the keyringed baubles most people carry around). I'm looking forward to the looming day the debit and transit cards exist in my smartphone as well.

    Not to say people don't have good cause for their packed wallets and keyring maces–by all means to each their own–these minimalist wallets, however, seem lacking in function even when their design is nice.

    That may be what it comes down to: the wallet as anachronistic man-bling like the fancy watch or pen or business card holder. Nothing wrong with that :-)

    #1940868
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    > I'm really missing the point of any of these wallets.
    Me too.

    A silnylon stuff sack sized to hold 1 credit card, 1 driving licence, and a few folded bank notes between them. My car keys (JUST the car keys) get tied to the stuff sack draw cord (0.5 mm Spectra).

    Cost? Scrap bits.

    Cheers

    #1940869
    Mary D
    BPL Member

    @hikinggranny

    Locale: Gateway to Columbia River Gorge

    1 ziplock sandwich bag, 0.1 oz. or 1 gram

    #1940870
    Art …
    BPL Member

    @asandh

    anything more than a plastic ziplock sandwhich baggie (1 gram) is overkill.

    #1940871
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    "1 ziplock sandwich bag, 0.1 oz. or 1 gram"

    A small opsak for me. I don't want no darn bears smelling my money….

    #1940875
    Mark Verber
    BPL Member

    @verber

    Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

    +1 ziplock bag.

    Between trips it holds what is normally in my pocket on the trail: hand cleaner, compass, small knife.

    When I hit the trailhead those go into my pocket, and what's in my pocket goes into the plastic bag. Normally that's my iphone, a driver license, insurance card, credit card, national park pass, keys, pen.

    #1940876
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    Same here – ziplock bag

    I use one of the bags sealers to size it how I want

    #1940878
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    I just pack in the car key now. Never have found anyone selling ice cream in the backcountry so no need for a special backpacking wallet to hold cash,cards . Ziploc if you must take some plastic, cash.

    #1940881
    Jeffs Eleven
    BPL Member

    @woodenwizard

    Locale: NePo

    Ziplocs???

    you guys arent near as cool as I thought.

    #1940893
    Rob E
    Spectator

    @eatsleepfish

    Locale: Canada

    I couldn't imagine taking something like this out hiking. I'm interested in these for every day use.

    #1940904
    John Whynot
    Member

    @jdw01776

    Locale: Southeast Texas

    I wore out a spinnaker Simblissity trifold after years of everday use, replaced it with a slightly heavier dyneema gridstop version. I think they are perfect for everyday use…

    #1940907
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    "I couldn't imagine taking something like this out hiking. I'm interested in these for every day use."

    I just use Ziploc for everyday use : )

    #1940916
    Jay Wilkerson
    BPL Member

    @creachen

    Locale: East Bay

    Zpacks has UL CF Wallet Pouch that has plenty of room for all your stuff. (0.1oz)

    #1940921
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Yeah, I use the ZPacks CF wallet as well, it's plenty big, waterproof (for the most part,)and it's so light it doesn't even register on my scale.

    #1940922
    EndoftheTrail
    BPL Member

    @ben2world-2

    nm

    #1940924
    Todd T
    BPL Member

    @texasbb

    Locale: Pacific Northwest

    I've never needed any more than this when hiking:

    Ultralight Wallet

    #1940935
    Christopher Kuzak
    Member

    @kc

    I use an alligator clip everyday. Hate wallets. When on a trip, I take a card, my id, and wrap a 20 around them both and go.

    #1940943
    GD
    BPL Member

    @nsiderbam

    I love my mighty wallet:

    http://www.mightywallets.com

    #1940996
    Brandon Guy
    BPL Member

    @brucky

    Locale: Central Cal

    +1 on mighty wallets or diy one yourself, just a thin tyvek wallet

    #1941012
    Gary Dunckel
    BPL Member

    @zia-grill-guy

    Locale: Boulder

    Like this one?

    Tyvek wallet

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