Comments on: Good shopping day http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/22/good-shopping-day/ Rich Lafferty's OLD blog Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:39:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rich http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/22/good-shopping-day/comment-page-1/#comment-3282 Rich Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:51:43 +0000 http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/22/good-shopping-day/#comment-3282 That's easy to overcome: this way, when you lose one wallet, you only lose half of your ID and cards instead of all of them! Doubly so if you keep the high-risk ones in your "mostly stays at home" wallet, like your SIN card. That’s easy to overcome: this way, when you lose one wallet, you only lose half of your ID and cards instead of all of them! Doubly so if you keep the high-risk ones in your “mostly stays at home” wallet, like your SIN card.

]]> By: Fweebles http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/22/good-shopping-day/comment-page-1/#comment-3281 Fweebles Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:28:30 +0000 http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/22/good-shopping-day/#comment-3281 Er...by "health card", I meant "group health insurance/drug card". Which is different from my "Work Insurance card", which is actually a...travel insurance card supplied by work? Too many different insurances. I will have to look into the two-wallet-solution though. My main source of inertia is wanting to keep the number of separate items I can possibly lose as small as possible, so if I can overcome that, then we're golden. Er…by “health card”, I meant “group health insurance/drug card”. Which is different from my “Work Insurance card”, which is actually a…travel insurance card supplied by work? Too many different insurances.

I will have to look into the two-wallet-solution though. My main source of inertia is wanting to keep the number of separate items I can possibly lose as small as possible, so if I can overcome that, then we’re golden.

]]> By: Rich http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/22/good-shopping-day/comment-page-1/#comment-3271 Rich Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:20:11 +0000 http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/22/good-shopping-day/#comment-3271 <b>Fweebles:</b> No, no, it's not "don't have a wallet", it's "don't keep your wallet in your pants". They aren't kidding about <a href="http://www.emedicine.com/pmr/topic106.htm" rel="nofollow">back problems</a> from a wallet! Although I do recommend having two wallets: one, a cardholder with the bare minimum of stuff you need everyday, carried with you, and another with all the other stuff, only taken when you need it. My everyday wallet is one of <a href="http://www.thejimi.com/wallet/index.php" rel="nofollow">these</a>, small enough to go in a <i>front</i> pocket, which forces me to carry very little in it: money, bus tickets, two business cards, and then four plastic cards: my health card, driver's license, bank card, and one credit card. My other wallet, which either lives in my laptop bag, shoulder bag, or at home, has my Costco card, library card, MEC card, Rogers Video card, SIN card, and so on. I should really just keep the Costco card in the car, since I'll never go to Costco without the car. (You have a separate health and OHIP card?) Fweebles: No, no, it’s not “don’t have a wallet”, it’s “don’t keep your wallet in your pants”. They aren’t kidding about back problems from a wallet!

Although I do recommend having two wallets: one, a cardholder with the bare minimum of stuff you need everyday, carried with you, and another with all the other stuff, only taken when you need it.

My everyday wallet is one of these, small enough to go in a front pocket, which forces me to carry very little in it: money, bus tickets, two business cards, and then four plastic cards: my health card, driver’s license, bank card, and one credit card. My other wallet, which either lives in my laptop bag, shoulder bag, or at home, has my Costco card, library card, MEC card, Rogers Video card, SIN card, and so on. I should really just keep the Costco card in the car, since I’ll never go to Costco without the car.

(You have a separate health and OHIP card?)

]]> By: Fweebles http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/22/good-shopping-day/comment-page-1/#comment-3270 Fweebles Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:13:23 +0000 http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/22/good-shopping-day/#comment-3270 In my wallet right now: $15 Debit Card Amex VISA (and other VISA, which I don't really need to carry) Driver's Licence CAA Card (which could theoretically be in the car) Health Card OHIP Card Work Insurance Card Air Miles Card Library Card Soccer Referee Registration Where the heck do I put all of that if I don't have a wallet? I'm not necessarily against some sort of bag, except for the fact that that means carrying it around with me. But then, I fully understand that this is coming from a style magazine, and for me personally style is about 10 notches lower on the importance scale when matched against practicality. :D In my wallet right now:
$15
Debit Card
Amex
VISA (and other VISA, which I don’t really need to carry)
Driver’s Licence
CAA Card (which could theoretically be in the car)
Health Card
OHIP Card
Work Insurance Card
Air Miles Card
Library Card
Soccer Referee Registration

Where the heck do I put all of that if I don’t have a wallet? I’m not necessarily against some sort of bag, except for the fact that that means carrying it around with me.

But then, I fully understand that this is coming from a style magazine, and for me personally style is about 10 notches lower on the importance scale when matched against practicality. :D

]]> By: Yossef http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/22/good-shopping-day/comment-page-1/#comment-3269 Yossef Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:41:31 +0000 http://www.lafferty.ca/2007/03/22/good-shopping-day/#comment-3269 but the only thing I can think of when I see all these mentions of “red shirts” is Star Trek, which is a bit <em>off-message</em>. Oh, you're rich. No, I mean it. Well, at least you're Rich. but the only thing I can think of when I see all these mentions of “red shirts” is Star Trek, which is a bit off-message.

Oh, you’re rich. No, I mean it. Well, at least you’re Rich.

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