Older millienal. I bought the phone case wallet. Opens like a book. I'll admit, when it arrived and I slapped my new phone in it, I realized I've only ever seen old man and women use this kind of case. Felt weird for all of ten seconds. I fucking love it.
That being said, I am surprised how many people are asking where people keep their cards and cash. A lot of people literally just use pockets. Like, they raw dog cash, id, some credit or debit cards and got like 2 or 3 loose keys. Don't get me wrong, they are crazy people and I will literally laugh at them when they wonder aloud where their card is, they JUST had it. But it's a lot of em. (Worked in retail over a decade, still work in a field where I ask people for their stuff and payment).
I just have a card holder since I never use cash, and my partner always carries some on her anyway.
EDIT: am late millennial.
Eh, most Millenials don't have "wallets" like older generations had either.
The giant 3-5 inch thick monstrosities.
Even 20 years ago a lot of Gen X had made the switch to just a flat card hold with a couple 20s slid in.
A Millenial with one of those would say they have a wallet. A Gen Z with the same thing would say they had a card holder.
So I think a big part of this is just language evolving.
I’m a young Millennial and I don’t understand why you wouldn’t carry a wallet. Mine is a slim front pocket one, but I need somewhere for my ID and cards. I despise phone wallets and I use tap-to-pay where possible, but not everywhere accepts them for some reason. I also don’t carry cash because I’m not a Boomer. If I’m buying/selling something off Craigslist or whatever, I just use Venmo.
Who doesn’t use a wallet? Are they referring to those card holders and not calling them wallets?
Gen Z here.
Do people really not have wallets now? There's so much I can't carry without a wallet, most importantly my ID. Am I expected to just put that loose in my pockets or bag?
And like, sometimes I'm forced to carry cash for one reason or another. I need a space place to put that.
I'm guessing it's just because the majority of my generation isn't old enough to be regularly encountering these issues. I'm 100% certain it'll change as they age the way I was forced to.I think it depends on where you are more than your age. I very rarely carry a wallet on me and I am definitely not Gen Z. That being said, where I live, every legitimate (i.e. non laundering/tax dodging) business accepts paying by phone. I can use public transport by scanning my phone, I can prove my ID by showing my phone, I can claim medical benefits by using my phone, and every franchise has it's own loyalty app I can download on my phone.
Wallet in Fanny pack gang, rise up!
Well, I definitely fit in the box, got a leather billfold wallet. I'd say I feel like I've got several good reasons to:
- we don't have digital ID in this country
- For some reason we sometimes get issued paper tickets for the train rather than QR code tickets
- I'm sometimes out all day and late into the evening and don't want a dead phone stopping whatever I'm doing
- I go to enough other countries where you can't get away without using cash
- (Least of all) I find those metal slim wallets to just be a bit ugly looking personally
I have a wallet and I am gen z, this doesn't actually work
Apparently gen z follow YouTubers and know drama/creators by name
One of them was really shocked that I don’t care to follow any and just search for the topic I want and pick whatever (separately I avoid videos with high viewcount or sponsors because then they are doing it for money not as a hobby)
There’s other things like they don’t love the song Smooth and play Minecraft even though they aren’t 9 anymore
I'm 42 and I have some cash wrapped around a few cards held together with a rubber band lol it works better than any wallet I've ever owned
I just throw my cards in my pocket lmao
Contemporary generational labels are as arbitrary as their boundaries, most of us just want to belong so we apply them to ourselves and say we must be X and they are Y, but you're just as likely describing trends people from any generational category may follow than insight into actual characteristics of the group.
I'm one of the younger millennials (I think?).
I never carry cash unless I have to (for some reason dependent on where I'm going). I primarily use my phone to make payments, and I don't have a traditional wallet, but I do have a slim card-holder that carries my debit card, driving licence and one or two other important cards.
Take that for what you will, I guess!
Do cardholders count for this? Because here everyone has at least that, even gen Z.
Much of that is because payment with phones haven't really taken on for physical payments, since Apple and Google pay don't support our payment system, Bankaxept, yet.
There is support on the way though, so this will likely change.
Idk As a gen z every other gen z I know has a wallet
I worked at walmart and you would be amazed how many people just whip out a balled up wad of naked cash and change.
Well, to put it in perspective, anyone older than 20 is "old" to the youngest generation.
I'd kill to be 30 again. That's the age when you're in your physical and mental prime, you'll never be biologically or mentally better than then. And I was a skinny, purty, strong, smart sumbitch then. But I was too insecure to take advantage of it.
I've actually been thinking about switching to a money clip but I've been rocking this Pulp Fiction Bad Mother Fucker wallet since I was like sixteen and it's still in pretty good shape so it feels like a waste of money to replace it.
*Me looking at all my zoomer friends who have wallets
God damn it.
Now that we've finally got digital ID, I no longer need to use my wallet.
I never took it anywhere anyway, it's just a thing that holds cards to me. I'll only ever grab it when I need to get cash out at an ATM.
