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"Men usually don't buy wallets, they receive them as gifts", is it true in your experience?
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I’ve bought every wallet I've ever had.
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Haven't had a wallet in years. It's all on the phone now
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.
I don't receive/want many gifts in general, but I'm rather particular about my wallets. My current one is out of cork, has RFID blocking, a coin pocket that folds open wide and a transparent card slot for my public transport ticket. The chance that a gift gets close to that is rather slim, so I'd rather just buy it myself...
I've only ever been gifted wallets lol. Except for the one I actually use which is one of those card clips, I don't use cash.
Yes, and a new one is on my Christmas wish list. I might have bought one for myself my entire life
First it was my mom, then my ex, now I’m hoping my teens will take it up. This is the transition one: if I get one mud, I don’t need to think about it for another 5-10 years and they’ll be full adults by then
Only when I was a kid.
Wallet preferences don't tend to come up in conversation so I'm not sure how anyone would know what to buy. Plus I get a new wallet maybe every 10 or more years, so it seems like an odd gift.
Pretty much the way it has gone with me. I don't think that I have ever bought a wallet myself, nor requested one as a present, but nonetheless I have never had a shortage of them.
My current one does what I want it to, and has lasted for probably a decade or so so far. Still going strong too.
Yes, my family gifted me my first and second wallet.
I was taken to the store by my step father and he made me spend my money on a wallet that I no longer had money to put inside of. I have bought all of my wallets myself.
I've never gotten a wallet as a gift and have always had to buy my own. Even when I was a kid with my first wallet.
I've definitely gotten more as gifts than I have bought for myself (I'm a guy in his mid-40s).
I tend to be particular about my everyday carry equipment and so I think I've killed that kind of gift out of my circle. My current wallet is entering its 12th year of service in surprisingly good condition. A Big Skinny L-shape. I'm not in the habit of carrying all my airman certificates around with me anymore so if I were to replace it I'd just go with their basic nylon bifold.
Seems to be a cool company; when I bought my wallet in early 2013 the price was $26, it's now $30. I think that's slower than inflation.
I bought a wallet online and liked it a lot. I then bought two more of the same model as a gift for my father and a (female) friend. So IDK.
My last 2 wallets were gifts.
I dunno, it tends to happen more when people are forced/tricked/want to provide a gift without really knowing what to get.
It's a reliable generic gift because wallets wear out, and there's usually room to switch between several.
It gets less common as you age, but it still happens unless you have the habit of refusing to switch wallets, or have talked about exactly what you want in a wallet and people realize they're better off going a different route.
I'm really particular about my wallets. Right size, right pocket configuration, right materials. I want my wallets the be able to be pulled out and I can find what I need blindfolded because of decades of familiarity. I like a licence window. I want durable materials over pretty materials, when the choice is necessary.
So, I buy my own damn wallets when one is wearing out. Nobody buys me wallets any more because I show the new ones off. Since I'm also known for saying "oh man, that's a nice wallet, that'll be what I use when this one wears out", it kinda makes it a disappointing gift to give, even though I would never say that and it not be true.
I got tired of replacing wallets and just bought a quality saddleback one probably a decade ago. Been through the wash multiple times and still holding up great. Probably last me the rest of my life as long as I don't lose it.
Like most other gifts, it's only acceptable if you put a specific one on a wish list and they bought that one. Who wants a random wallet? That's like buying a random watch, or cologne, or belt. Any accessory should be picked out by the person wearing/using it.
I bought my last one, but this was true for my whole life up until that point. I'll replace it since it's made of leather. I'm hoping to find one I like with RFID blocking next.
Always bought my own wallets. And used it to oblivion, now that I think about it. And now that I think about that as well, I really should look into buying another, because the current is threatning to fall apart any moment.
I have two wallets that I use:
- Big wallet with passport, foreign currency and other things that I need while on the go. Plenty of room for extra papers such as visa printouts, etc. Gift from a former employer.
- Small wallet with the cards I use every day and some unfiled receipts. Gift from my GF after she heard me whining about how my big wallet was too big for normal everyday use.
So it holds true for me, at least.
Yes, all of my wallets have been gifts, except my current one which I inherited.
I'm way to special about how the things that go in my pockets physically feel and work for anyone (unless they know me really well, which is like two people lol) to ever get me a gift like a wallet.
I wouldn't want a random gift of a wallet (with a probable exception of an obscenely expensive high quality leather that's really well hand crafted, maybe.) You don't know me well enough to know what I'd consider an upgrade.
I intend to eventually add a couple pockets to my ereader sleeve so that serves double duty and I don't need a separate wallet. But until then I just want it out of my way.
I use my pocket as a wallet. It's as slim as you can get. The last wallet I had I bought myself. It was a nice two fold leather one.
My dad bought me a wallet from walmart when i was in 8th grade. I still use it im 31 now. I was once gifted an alligator skin wallet that my aunt bought in india while traveling. It fell apart in a matter of weeks.
For me atleast yeah. I've gotten exactly one wallet as a gift and it's the only one I've ever used. 12 years strong
This tracks, I've always had fancy wallets and I'm sure as shit not one for fashion. I feel like if you've been in relationships semi-regularly for most of your life, it's just an easy gift idea.
I put my wallet on my Christmas list a decade ago and still have the same wallet, so yes it does get gifted a lot but lots of people buy them
i bought mine. The ones I was gifted were too big and I always ended up accumulating a bunch of useless stuff in there. So I bought the smallest one that would fit the essentials. that worked.
Anecdotal I know but I’ve purchased probably 95% of the wallets I’ve owned through the years (I’m old so it’s a lot)
I have one I made and two more I received as gifts. I've never bought a wallet.
This is likely the case for a lot of items that the common guy wouldn't give a second thought about.
Me? Bought the one before, wife gave me the present one. The third one down the line might have been a gift from my boss. Clearly some truth there.
I'm pretty sure I bought my first one or two wallets, but they were low quality. I got a good/name brand wallet as a gift 20 years ago that I'm still using.
As an adult? Never as a gift
Considering I have a very specific and uncommon (within normal people day to day) type of wallet, no I would not agree. I have been using this style of wallet for almost a decade. No idea if I'm representative though.
Not for the one I actually use.