Now for sale on the boing boing store: combo emergency building supplies/ caltrops
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You keep coins in your wallet? I’ve not had much luck with that with a regular wallet.
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I finally broke down and started using a coin pouch in 2016. Japan is a cashfull society
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I use something like this:
Wallet is probably not the correct english term.
You need coins all the time over here: ticket machines, supermarket shopping carts etc.
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I use one of these doohickeys, a magic wallet. RFID versions can be had for less than ten bucks. Slim and easy and fun.
Ah, thank you. That definitely counts as a wallet. It is a broad term, and includes larger versions that are meant to be carried in a purse rather than in a pocket. I’m not sure if I’ve seen a version of a wallet for a pocket that contains a coin holder before - but that may be be selective memory since that isn’t the kind of wallet I look for.
I thought all of Northern Europe was moving away from cash. Norway was having discussions about eliminating it altogether when I was living there a few years ago.
Cash is King in german speaking countries. According to a 2015 study by the Bundesbank (think Federal Reserve) 79% of financial transactions in Germany are settled in cash, while in Britain and the USA that figure is under 50 percent.
The figures for Austria and Switzerland are similar (Austria: 82% transactions in cash)
Payment card use in Austria - National Bank of Austria (english)
Reasons: Debt prevention and Privacy.
I too like cash but hate the coins.
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Looks like a wallet to me.
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