How often do you lose your wallet?

[ggbman]

How often do you guys lose or misplace your wallet for more than a day? This is a chronic problem for me, anyone have any ideas?

[Ponks]

Back pocket to desk, desk to back pocket.

Ponks

[Sponger15SB]

I lose my wallet, keys, and cell phone in my room once a day.

However there is a corner of my room affectionatly called "the pile", so that is understandable.

I need to start putting that [censored] in drawers.

[stabn]

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How often do you guys lose or misplace your wallet for more than a day? This is a chronic problem for me, anyone have any ideas?

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I have not done this since i was ten. Simply put it in the same place every day and it will not be a problem for you.

[gvibes]

I thought I lost it once when I was about 8 or 9 (it was a sweet spiderman velcro deal).

I later found out that my dog ate it. So, never.

[willie]

never.

not once, i'm only 22 though so it may happen in the future.

[InchoateHand]

Four or five times, permanently. I still never learn.

[IronDragon1]

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How often do you guys lose or misplace your wallet for more than a day? This is a chronic problem for me, anyone have any ideas?

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Once every couple of years.

I usually find it just a couple of minutes later.

Keys, on the other hand, are a completely different matter.

[Duke]

Never, but money is fairly important to me.

~D

[beerbandit]

dont use wallet for some reason --- my id is really [censored] up from getting smashed in my pocket

get pants with a button back pocket


cheers

[jakethebake]

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Simply put it in the same place every day and it will not be a problem for you.

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Yes. Who the hell doesn't do this?

[swolfe]

i did once when it fell out of my pocket and under the car seat. freaked me the [censored] out until i found it.

other than that, it never leaves my pocket since i wear the same khakis to work every day.

[wh1t3bread]

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other than that, it never leaves my pocket since i wear the same khakis to work every day.

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Only way to do it.

[mmbt0ne]

I lose either my keys, wallet, cellphone, student id, etc. on an almost daily basis. It always manages to show up in the strangest places too. I've pulled my wallet out of the fridge before, and found my keys in a cabinet.

[PhatTBoll]

I've only lost mine once, when I was 17 at King's Island, an amusement park. I was pissed the entire day thinking it was gone for good. As we were leaving I checked with the office. Somebody had returned it, but not before taking $40 out of it. I didn't know whether to be happy or mad.

[ggbman]

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I lose either my keys, wallet, cellphone, student id, etc. on an almost daily basis. It always manages to show up in the strangest places too. I've pulled my wallet out of the fridge before, and found my keys in a cabinet.

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Thats too funny because since i lost my wallet two days ago, there were only a few places i had been and i actually checked the [censored] fridge. It wasnt there unfortunatley, and i really dont want to have to cancel the credit card AGAIN. /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[NoChance]

My ex-girlfriend and I would frequently drive an hour to spend an evening at a casino. This was in Wisconsin where you need to be 21 to enter. We were in our 20's and always got carded at the entrance.

One night, as we approached the car, my girlfriend quickly set all her stuff down on the front bumper of the car and ran back into the apartment to grab a soda for the trip. The trip was windy and rainy. When we got to the casino, they asked for our IDs and my girlfriend could not find her wallet. We were dissapointed and went back to the car to head back home. When we got the the car, her wallet was sitting on the front bumper.

How the heck it sat on the bumper for a 65 mile trip in the rain and wind is beyond me....

I wish our luck that night at the casino could have been have as lucky as finding the wallet.

[ggbman]

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My ex-girlfriend and I would frequently drive an hour to spend an evening at a casino. This was in Wisconsin where you need to be 21 to enter. We were in our 20's and always got carded at the entrance.

One night, as we approached the car, my girlfriend quickly set all her stuff down on the front bumper of the car and ran back into the apartment to grab a soda for the trip. The trip was windy and rainy. When we got to the casino, they asked for our IDs and my girlfriend could not find her wallet. We were dissapointed and went back to the car to head back home. When we got the the car, her wallet was sitting on the front bumper.

How the heck it sat on the bumper for a 65 mile trip in the rain and wind is beyond me....

I wish our luck that night at the casino could have been have as lucky as finding the wallet.

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Lol, i think that wins for best wallet recovery.

[slickpoppa]

i've never lost my wallet, and i'm really glad. replacing driver's licenses and credit cards must suck

[ggbman]

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i've never lost my wallet, and i'm really glad. replacing driver's licenses and credit cards must suck

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ass

[Blarg]

In the home? Never, because it always goes in the same place, usually the minute I get home.

Outside the home? I used to lose it like crazy when I kept it in my back pocket. It's easy to pick there, and after a while of sitting on it in a movie or whatever, your ass feels pretty much the same if it slips out when you stand up or if it's still there. I scoot back and forth in my seat a fair bit I suppose, so that helps loosen it. Anyway, I've lost many wallets there and looked down and seen my wallet on the seat quite a few times, just in time to prevent another loss.

Now I keep it in my front pocket. The pressure and weight of it there are always noticeable, it's pretty much impossible for it to slip out, and pickpocketing would be very hard in comparison to the back pocket.

I used to lose my keys every once in a while, but now I have one of those cheap nylon wallets with a keyring attached. The whole clump goes into my pocket at once, so there's no way to lose anything really. The only downside is that if you get mugged and someone takes your wallet, or if for some incredibly weird reason you manage to lose it, you've lost not only your wallet but your keys too. Still, unless you get mugged fairly frequently, that's not really a problem ande doesn't overcome the convenience of having your wallet and keys never falling out of your pocket or being pulled from it again.

[tolbiny]

Permanantly? Never.
For periods of 1-72 hours... once a week if you count my keys.

[bennyk]

i'm pretty obsessive about checking my pockets for my stuff whenever i leave somewhere.

usually i keep my wallet in my bag if i'm working. the only problem is if i leave for dinner without getting my ID out...no drinks for me.

bk

[TeeJayORTj]

I have never Lost my wallet for more then an hour or two...But i have sent it through the wash a few times. That Sucks

[WEASEL45]

ive lost my wallet twice in the last month. it sucks to have to get a new ID.

[private joker]

I've never lost my wallet. I usually just keep it in my pants pocket and if I wear different pants the next day, just transfer it over.

Here's the best wallet loss story I've read, and it comes courtesy of my poker-playing friend's blog. (http://enchantedmitten.blogspot.com)

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On my way to the Q train this afternoon, I stop at the corner bodega to pick up a bottle of water and a copy of the Times. Total cost: $2.00. I pay with two dollar bills. Heading down the steps into the subway station, I put my right hand in my jacket pocket and am alarmed to realize my wallet is missing from its customary abode. Quick pro forma check of other pockets turns up nothing, so I dash back to the store, assuming I must have left it on the counter like a total idiot. But the bodega dude assures me I did not leave my wallet on the counter like a total idiot. "Possibly you left it at home*," he suggests, but I know that can't be so since I never carry money anywhere but my wallet.** And I'm pretty sure this guy didn't take it, since he and I share the friendly familiarity that neighborhood residents establish with local merchants. But a grand total of maybe 30 seconds had elapsed between purchase and revelation, and I'd traveled approximately a dozen yards. So if I didn't leave it on the counter, I somehow lost it in that short distance.

Now, the only other person in the vicinity at this time is a very cheerful fellow alternating between solicitations for spare change and flattery of random passersby (assuming there's a distinction to be made between the two). He's close enough to overhear my conversation with the bodega dude about my missing wallet, and if I somehow dropped my wallet between the store and the subway entrance he'd almost certainly have seen it. But he's ignoring me pretty strenuously. Which I guess I can't fault him for that, since according to him every single woman walking down Flatbush must be a model, right? That fine you have got to be a model. Lemme get one little smile from Miss America. Etc.

The bodega dude, mildly sympathetic but incapable of much more than shrugs and palms-up "search me" gestures, finally offers to check the store's security videocassette for me. While waiting for him to return, I decide it can't hurt to ask the homeless*** guy whether he saw anything.

ME: Hey, I lost my wallet around here about two, three minutes ago. You didn't happen to see it, did you?
PROBABLY HOMELESS GUY: No, man, sorry. Damn. That's [censored] up.

But he's a terrible liar. Possibly the worst liar I've ever encountered. It's instantly obvious that he has my wallet. I don't know exactly what nonverbal indications human beings pick up on when others are dissembling; whatever the reliable tells are, though, he's exhibiting all of them at once, jacked up to 11. I take him aside as best I can given that we're both standing on the street with a steady flow of foot traffic around us.

ME (super-conspiratorially): Look, anybody who did find my wallet, the only thing that's any use to them is the money, right? And a Metrocard that's gonna expire in like two days. I don't care about the money. What I need to get back is a bunch of other crap in there. Like phone numbers and [censored]. I'd be really happy to get the wallet back without the money. So I'm not accusing you or anything, but seriously, if you do have my wallet, you can keep the money if you just give me the wallet back, I'm not calling the cops, I don't give a [censored]. I would really appreciate it. And if you honestly don't have it and don't know anything about it then I apologize. But if you do, then please, cut me a break.

He looks at me frankly for about ten seconds after I finish this little speech, then says, "All right, man, since you asked nice. Because you asked with respect, all right?"

And takes my wallet out of his pocket, opens it up, takes out all the cash (only maybe $45), and hands me the wallet. The cash goes back into his pocket.

For some reason I can't think of anything to do except stand there, dumbfounded. I don't even necessarily know why I'm dumbfounded. I guess I just didn't imagine anyone could be quite that brazen about it.

After about ten seconds of my gaping, he says: "What? That was the agreement, right?"

I still can't think of anything to say, so I just stare some more. Another ten seconds pass. Then he gives a little snort. "All right, man, it makes you feel better." He reaches into his pocket, takes out the money, hands it to me. I riffle it between my fingers, then hand it all back to him. He pockets it again. "Thanks a lot," I say, and get a little mock salute in return.

The weird thing is, I actually do feel better.



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