I’m sitting here cleaning out my wallet. I regularly take out the contents of the coin pocket and leave the $1 and $2 coins in with a couple of quarters just in case I need them for some weird reason in this day and age of the cell phone. Hell, are pay phones still only 25¢? I honestly don’t know. That’s one thing about having a wallet with a coin pocket. You really need to clean it out regularly or else the accumulation of pennies and nickels just makes it bulky and heavy. Now and then my wallet weighs down my pants to the point where it becomes dangerous to walk around without a belt. Having a possible wardrobe malfunction because I’m too lazy to clear out my coins? No thanks.
Also over a period of time I find that my wallet accumulates a large number of business cards. Every month that I’ve gone to the dentist to get an orthodontic adjustment, I’ve come out with a reminder/business card for my next appointment. I was surprised the other day to find 5 copies of the same card. No wonder my wallet’s got bulk. I’ve gotten some business recommendations for various things from various people. The most likely outcome from those recommendations is that I’d forget that the card even exists. Months later, when I finally clean out my wallet, I often find cards for people whom I haven’t had the slightest bit of contact with. Bulk bulk bulk!
This evening, I somehow managed to find a way to take three plastic cards out of there. Of all things in the wallet, the plastic cards are usually the least likely to get moved out, right? I mean, how often do you have to remove a credit card from there permanently, right? Well, since a new month just recently started I’ve just started using the July Metropass for transit. On the first day I swapped out the June card for the July one. I stashed the June one away with intentions of taking it out the next time I cleaned out my wallet. Well, I just pulled out the June one, and was surprised that I was somehow still holding onto the May one as well. Those millimetres add up. The third card is actually something that I’ve been holding onto since January. One of the promotions that came with the Corolla was a $450 gas card that Toyota gave to all buyers. No kidding, $450 lasted a very long time. Six months later, the sucker finally ran out. I’m really going to miss not having to worry about paying every time I filled up, but it’s back to reality for me, I guess.
After all of that tidying up, my wallet is still far from being lean. It’s just no longer at a point where I have to lean over when I sit down with it in my back pocket. Sitting upright is wholly underrated.
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