Binning a trad purse for just a card holder

[PouchofDouglas]

I largely don’t use cash at all, either Apple Pay on my phone or my debit card. I’ve got all my loyalty cards on the Stocard app. Has anybody else binned their traditional purse?

I don't have a purse or a card holder. And I text with my thumbs but I have no idea why, it's just natural.

I use apps for everything. And Apple Pay for paying.

But what do you do when the parking machine, chip shop etc only takes cash and there isn't a cash machine for miles around? Or nowhere to get change if there is a cash machine?

Or your phone runs out of battery, or is broken/stolen?

And I hope none of you 'no bags and nothing except a phone' people are not like the young woman I went on a group holiday with last year where by the end of the week it turned out that 4 of us had her tampons in our handbags/rucksacks.

Theyvall have apps these days. Parking things

Ha, my husband is 57 and it is painful to watch him typing messges jabbing with his index fingers. So slow. I am 44 and use my thumb.

Glad to have read this thread as I have just found out about and installed the Stocard app as a result. I only use a very very small purse anyway, but often don't cart all the loyalty and rewards cards with me so often miss out on using them. This will help.

I hate being burdened down with purses and bags. In winter I just use my pockets if I am not going to work. In summer it is more difficult and I end up using tiny handbags.

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Well yes I know such things exist, but not all parking meters use them, and TBH it's much easier to stick a few coins in a slot than piss about registering on several different systems. And many of them I've seen cost extra to pay by phone.

Tampons would go in my pocket, no paid for parking where I live so that's never been an issue, would withdraw cash if I knew I was going to one though.

But haven't withdrawn actual cash in a long while now.

God periods? Who bothers with those. Coil mate. No periods since 2003

I used to do have just a card case

But with kids etc, I needed cash for random school things, pocket money etc. Plus library cards, membership cards etc.

So I went back to a wallet! A massive one which holds my phone. And I also have a cross over bag as need that for random kid crap too

No parking app in my town, but there is in the one I work in, PITA it is as people stand there for ages trying to get the app to work or faffing about with cards when it's so much easier to pop a coin in the slot.

No need for tampons/mooncuppery etc here -a hysterectomy sorted that.

I once arrived at a car park about 20 minutes before the end of the charging period.

They had just changed it to pay by phone only, so instead of me sticking a 50 p in the slot to pay, it wanted me to register, and it would have charged me 75 pence instead as it included a'convenience fee' of 25 p, and yes, it's only 25 pence, but if you do it every day, it adds up.

I tried for a couple of minutes before deciding that by the time I had sorted it all out, the charging period would have ended anyway, so I didn't bother paying, and luckily didn't get fined.

I wonder how much extra the people who blindly pay for everything by card/phone pay over the year, with all these extra 25 pences and fees for paying by card, which I know are illegal, but many places still charge them. Or extra profit by the banks in card fees?

Lolol.

I'm very old then, as I type with my forefingers, have just had to chuck my giant purse away as a note got caught in the zip and have crammed my 1000 cards into my tiny purse. I love purses and handbags. I have loads of them! DH would be delighted if I got rid of them all! OTOH, I do wonder why so many women bother with periods when not TTC. I have very light ones on the Mirena and even they are a PITA!

You do realise you will all become the "older generation" too, don't you. Nothing you can do to stop it.

Lol at type of texting and phone covers being mumsy.

I am 53 and text with thumbs. DS is 14 and uses a fold over phone holder. He likes it because his bank card, music room card school and his bus card all fit in it and he is of course never without his phone. He can also slip in a £10 or £20 if he wants to take money it .

Also he can use it to stand the phone up if he wants to watch something without having to attach something to the phone which is just another thing to lose.

I bought him a much cooler cover for his new phone and he asked me to change it for the same as his old one.

Who the hell does without a hand bag? Where would I put
Hankies
umbrella
Painkillers
Small first aid kit
Work Id and printing card
Pens
Bullet journal
Shopping bags (folded ones)
Coffee cup
Spare thin cardiga/cover up n or thin waterproof ) usually carry these in spring/autumn even in summer , though obviously not last summer!)

Small scarf and gloves and hat in winter . I usually wear them but get too hot if waking a long way so like space to put them in my bag if necessary
Etc etc etc.

The sure way for me to never have the one thing I need is to swap bags or take a few things in my pocket for a short trip and them forget to put them back or put on another jacket and forget keys/ phone/ cards in the other pocket.

No no, I have a bag with everything in and it goes work me most places.( ie everywhere) so I don't lose stuff

I still also use lots of cash.and hate being without any at all.I always carry £20-£40 with me most of the time

I go out with a coat with pockets.

Card wallet with travel card, debt card plus folded notes if I know I need to pay for something in cash ( like dog groomer who doesn't take card payment ).

Phone goes in my inner pocket, inhaler and housekeys in other pocket.

Sorted.

I text with my thumbs and am post menopausal. Ageism on Mumsnet, never

I'm a card holder lover - I just squeeze some notes in the middle bit, and my important cards in the slots either side - it's not much bigger than the credit cards themselves. I got it from Accessorize.

Coins just go in my pocket. I do like being able to just get up and go, and not having DP/Kids ask to put their stuff in my bag (or expect me to have things for them)

I made sure I got a leather one, as in my youth I used to use the free plastic ones natwest gave out, and in summer I started getting a heat rash on my bum under it (used to carry it in my back pocket), so I wanted a card wallet that would breath a bit this time.

What sort of pockets do people have that can safely and securely hold all this stuff?

I mostly wear normal casual women's clothes and hardly any have usable pockets and I'm not using pocket provision as another criteria to make clothes shopping even more complicated or frustrating.

If I try to carry coins in the pockets of my jeans, they fall out when I go to the toilet. I expect the same would happen with a phone case.

I can't see how putting all sorts of things in pockets, even if I did have decent ones, is any easier than just picking up a bag (cross body or rucksack usually so no hands needed to carry round) that contains everything I need when I go out and also keeps everything tidy and together at home.

What do you do with coffee shop loyalty cards? You can't put them on stocard. They have to be stamped.

My Northface jacket has inner pockets, chest pockets and the usual pockets with zips.

Are coats with pockets a new thing to some?

I carry a card wallet, an inhaler and my house keys. 3 items.

And now we have the answer to why so many people were out in big coats during the summer heatwave. They use them as handbags .

Of course coats with pockets aren't a new thing, but I often don't wear a coat in summer, and many coats don't have zipped pockets and if they do, they aren't always big enough to put much in, eg if I have things in my pockets I can't get my hands in there, so I have to wear gloves and I can't put my gloves in my already full pockets when I take them off.

My phone and keys fit in my jeans and trousers without issues, they don't zip up but never had anything fall out of them.