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DebtKid’s wallet pictures. What’s in your wallet?

Posted in my crazy life by debt kid on the July 8th, 2008

Inspired by a post over at the Lending Club blog on cleaning out your wallet, I thought I’d have a little fun with my clean out.

Wallet Before Clean Out

Pretty thick. Here’s what’s inside:

$inside debtkid\'s wallet$

My Wallet Contents

2 Checking Cards (Business and Personal)
Old Safeway Gift Card
Subway Card
Health Insurance Card
Blockbuster Card
Seattle Library Card (need to pay them the $70 I owe!)
Expired Costco Card (but I still keep just to get in if I want to browse around and grab a cheap hot dog)
OR and WA Driver’s License
2 Random Gift Cards
1 $5 bill and 1 $1 Bill (I’m rich!)
A mess load of random receipts and business cards
a book of stamps (in the mess at the top)

What I Decided To Keep

All the random receipts and business cards got ditched. I did however, keep a fortune cookie message that I got about a month ago, “You are only starting on your path to success”
2 Checking Cards
Subway, Blockbuster, and Costco Cards
Health Insurance Card
Seattle Library Card
WA Driver’s License
$6 in cash!

It had been awhile since I cleaned out my wallet, and I had a bunch of crap in there that was not needed. I kept the stamps, because I like having those on me. Also, I kept my costco card, even though my membership is expired. Sometimes I like to just go there and look around at all the cool stuff and grap a cheap hot dog. It’s a cheap solo date.

“Share your wallet pics” MEME

OK, so I’ve never started a TAG thing before, but I think it would be fun to see what’s in some other PF bloggers wallets! I know this has been done before, but I’ve never done it, and if you haven’t, nows the time! Plus, I’m amped up on like 2 huge cups of coffee and feeling adventurous!

Rules:

Post a picture of what’s in your wallet
Share what you cleaned out from your wallet, and what you kept and why
leave a comment on the 5 tips post here along with a link back to your wallet post
Tag some other peeps (3 min!)
link back here to the rules or just repost them on your post

I will tag…

I’d love to see these’s peeps wallets:

Pinyo from Moolanomy
Lynnae from BeingFrugal
JD from GetRichSlowly (unlikely he will do this, but it would be cool)
Jonathon at MyMoneyBlog
Frugal Dad
Patrick from Cash Money Life
DoughRoller
SquawkFox
Mrs. Micah
Gibble from Gather Little by Little
I could tag a bunch more peeps, but I don’t want to take everyone!

So, Do you have anything crazy in your wallet? Am I missing anything in mine? (besides more cash!)

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squawkfox said,

on July 8th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

I unwrapped my wallet a ways back. The ordeal with a little humbling. I still get commenters counting my lip glosses and tampons. *blush*
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Smart Girl said,

on July 8th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

Word of warning - I think they can suspend your license if you let the library fine continue to remain unpaid.

I understand about the Costco card - always nice to take an afternoon and wander around the store.

A few questions:
Why did you ditch the receipts? Weren’t those tax deductible expenses that you want to record and need the receipt and proof of the expense?
Did the Safeway Gift Card have any value left on it? It could have still purchased you a soda or something, why toss it? Same with the “random gift cards - where did these end up?

Always nice to clean the wallet - I never clean mine out often enough!

Jake Stichler said,

on July 8th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

I thought having more than once driver’s license tends to be illegal?

Also, Smart Girl, I don’t see why they’d suspend your license - it’s not driving or vehicle related. With the exception of any possible laws out there to protect libraries, it should only be a civil matter. With my Retention of Library Property charge, there was no possibility of license suspension, for those very reasons. Just the possibility of jail time. And heck, I knew the law better than the cop did.

debt kid said,

on July 8th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

@ Smart Girl - The fine from the library went to collections ages ago. I actually tried to pay it off (it’s like $55) a few months back, but I didn’t have a check on me and they didn’t take a debit card. I’ll pay it off sometime soon.

The receipts were all non-business related. No value left on the safeway card as well as the random ones, just forget to clean them out!

@ Jake - You couldn’t see it but the OR license was invalidated.

What's In Your Wallet? said,

on July 9th, 2008 at 3:40 am

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Lost Cause said,

on July 11th, 2008 at 1:43 am

My, my …$70 of library fines ignored? Most cities have a provision for jail time, if you read the fine print.

We keep finding out more and more, don’t we? How is it possible to have that much in library fines? Well you can tell a lot about a person by looking at his wallet, I guess. You still do not know how much you owe (library fines), nor how much is in your wallet (gift cards.)

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