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[quote=Anonymous]Like a lot of people, I have a small cardholder on the back of my phone.

This is GREAT for me, with my ADHD. Never "forget my wallet" and don't carry an overstuffed one (ADHD = bad at prioritizing, so leaves things out or brings EVERYTHING).

From ~2014-2022, I kept:

-2 credit cards. I use them for different purposes, but it's always good to have a backup. If I used only one, I'd also bring my bank card, which is a Visa debit or w/e.

-Driver's License

-Health Insurance Card

-Metro card (when I used to ride, pre-COVID)

-MAYBE: a $10 bill and/or bank card and/or HSA debit card

I think that's it.

I just got a new phone and a new kind of holder and it won't really keep more than 3, MAYBE 4 things, so I'm down to basically the 2 CCs and my license. I do have to remember to grab my insurance card/HSA card for the pharmacy or doctor, but in a more urgent case, I think I could get by with just the number/a photo, which I keep on my phone (OP, do this for the AAA information!) I do have to grab cash for rare occasions, but I really don't need it on me a lot. Etc.

It's actually totally fine. Of course, I don't have a corporate card, or anything like that.

My wallet used to be like George Costanza's, but nowadays you can keep so much info on your phone. And I don't even mean ApplePay, which I should totally use and never do. I mean I rarely need:

-Loyalty cards, because it's almost all phone number lookup, saved to an app, or you can keep the number in your notes app/etc.

-Cash or even my bank card, though the bank card would be good to have for an emergency, especially if I had only one CC. I rarely need to get cash out and I mobile deposit all my checks.

-Pictures of my kid. It's all on my phone.

-Geez, what else did I used to keep in there?? Receipts? Punchcards? Every single credit card I had any access to? Business cards??!?!!? HANDWRITTEN PHONE NUMBERS?!!!!???!! (Imagine!) You just don't need that much anymore, thanks largely to smartphones. It's not even just loyalty numbers/apps, it's a photo of or note about almost anything you want, and as a PP said, you can also use phones to preorder things and so on.

I literally keep a wallet of "all the rest" in my nightstand. I only VERY occasionally grab something from it-- mostly my HSA card, bank or Metro card.

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