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I never got one as a gift I really wanted to use. Care nothing for style, but look for practicality for me. After much trial and error have found a trifold made of sailcloth to be most lasting and useful for my sloppy wallet needs.

If you want a good wallet you buy it

YOU CAN BUY YOURSELF ANYTHING YOU WANT ESPECIALLY A WALLET

srry this just reads as “duh my bros is it geyy to git yerself a wallet” NO JUST BUY ONE

When I was younger, yeah.

I think wallets are for people nobody knows what to buy for. Like getting them a tie. No hobbies, no interests, no personal declarations of what they might like. Or people just don’t know them well enough to get anything other than some generic gift like a wallet.

Not for me.

I currently have three wallets, all made by Saddleback Leather^1^. They're expensive but the company's tagline is 'your kids will fight over it when you're dead'.

I have a standard bi-fold which I have actually semi-retired in this modern age of pinging payments with my phone, a classic tall, slim wallet for an inside suit jacket pocket, and my everyday carry card wallet which has three bank cards, my driving license, and £100 emergency 'shit they don't take phone pinging payment' situations.

Edit to add: I don’t anticipate ever needing to buy another wallet in my life. These are solid.

[1] Saddleback leather is owned and run by a guy called Dave Munson who is a self-described 'faith driven entrepreneur'. I don't care what the dude believes.

No, I saw a wallet that was exactly what I was looking for and bought it. I've carried it for years. The last time someone else bought me a wallet it was just a generic bulky one.

A friend made me a duct tape wallet in high school. My brother hated it, had won a contest, and spent some of.his winnings ona new wallet for me. It's been close to 20 years.

Wallets are good gifts until a guy is like 25-30. Then he'll buy the style he likes for himself.

I have never had a wallet bought for me. Probably wouldn't want one either, because I don't use traditional wallets, but rather a card wallet that keeps them all flat so they don't crack down the middle.

I bought mine

Works well as a lanyard too, ADHD would be having me leave it everywhere if it weren't strapped to my noggin

i only bouhgt my current one myself

the ones before were all gifts from my grandpa, and the last one lasted 11 years and i know he would have liked the one i bought. really tried to pick one he would have gifted me :)

My daily carry wallet is.. Damn over 12 years old now, and was a gift ha.

I have bought most I think but I have received some as gifts too.

Both yes and no. I've received most of my wallets was a gift, but people have crappy tastes, so I ended up buying my own.

I wanted a wallet that could hold a bunch of cards as slimly as possible, and as such I got myself an All-ett almost a decade ago. It's an unusual wallet, and therefore highly unlikely that anybody gifting me one would have picked the same thing.

(It's a great wallet BTW, and I highly recommend it. It's held up perfectly over the years, which is more than I can say for any leather wallet I've owned. Unfortunately, I just saw that the new ones are RFID-blocking, which might tempt me to upgrade even though this one would continue to last...)

I keep getting wallets as gifts even though everyone knows I don't use a wallet, I have a collection of wallets that will never feel the back of my ass.

I've never bought a wallet for myself

I got mine indeed as a gift, I think 23 years ago or so, when I lived with some other kids. Thought about replacing it with something smaller, like a card holder, but couldn't really find anything suitable for me.

no. i have had the same wallet since 2006

How did you know

I got several wallets as gifts ages ago, but I got sick of carrying fat wallets and found a slim wallet to buy for myself and have used it for as long as I can remember now. I would never trade it out unless I somehow found an even skinnier one (or it gets lost or destroyed).

I have only gotten one wallet as a gift ever, it was a family heirloom of sorts. All my other wallets I have used I have bought myself

wallets are not good gifts. people want to use what they like.

I bought a Ridge over a decade ago before they went all crazy political, and beyond some wear around the edges it's held up great. Which it should, it's fucking aluminum and titanium. The elastic cash band got stretched out pretty bad over time but I contacted em for a replacement last year and they just sent me one for free.

I don't think anyone's ever bought me a wallet, which tracks with my wishes for everyday carry items honestly.

I know I bought my last couple of wallets from the same place, usually because I walk past the wallet display stand, see a new one that I fancy, and decide on a whim to buy it. I get good mileage out of them, and they are generally inexpensive so even if I trade in every few years, it's still nice to have a fresh wallet every now and again. I occasionally swap between bifold and trifold as well. One thing I know is I can't do the minimalist design ones, I have too much shit in my wallet that I need just often enough to warrant carrying them around all the time (lest I forget them when I actually need them) but the desire to have the slimmest and most compact shape is definitely strong too. The two forces battle each other in my mind, and I usually settle for larger size in the end for convenience rather than comfort.

I'm not sure if I've ever received a wallet as a gift before. Maybe when i was a kid, and it would have been one of those nylon ones with the zippers for pocket change and the velcro for the money section.

I think my next wallet is going to be a really fancy one. Only thing I'm hesitating on in regard to that is I think cheaper wallet brands actually have the pulse of the everyman when it comes to design, whereas the fancier leather ones are somewhat impractical with fewer card slots, or very tight tolerances for sliding cards or money in them. I have to find just the right one, but I'm in no rush to replace my current wallet.

Pretty sure I have never bought a wallet myself. Out of the 2 wallets I've ever really had as far as I'm aware, they've been not necessarily gifts but were definitely bought for me.

Don't know. I've had same wallet for 42 years

I'm 45 and I bought every wallet I've ever owned.

I have never bought a wallet for myself. Someone in my life has always gifted me one when it gets raggedy. I was thinking of taking up leather working as a hobby to make my own, but it looks hard.

Yes, my family gifted me my first and second wallet.

I've definitely gotten more as gifts than I have bought for myself (I'm a guy in his mid-40s).

I was taken to the store by my step father and he made me spend my money on a wallet that I no longer had money to put inside of. I have bought all of my wallets myself.

I tend to be particular about my everyday carry equipment and so I think I've killed that kind of gift out of my circle. My current wallet is entering its 12th year of service in surprisingly good condition. A Big Skinny L-shape. I'm not in the habit of carrying all my airman certificates around with me anymore so if I were to replace it I'd just go with their basic nylon bifold.

Seems to be a cool company; when I bought my wallet in early 2013 the price was $26, it's now $30. I think that's slower than inflation.

I dunno, it tends to happen more when people are forced/tricked/want to provide a gift without really knowing what to get.

It's a reliable generic gift because wallets wear out, and there's usually room to switch between several.

It gets less common as you age, but it still happens unless you have the habit of refusing to switch wallets, or have talked about exactly what you want in a wallet and people realize they're better off going a different route.

I'm really particular about my wallets. Right size, right pocket configuration, right materials. I want my wallets the be able to be pulled out and I can find what I need blindfolded because of decades of familiarity. I like a licence window. I want durable materials over pretty materials, when the choice is necessary.

So, I buy my own damn wallets when one is wearing out. Nobody buys me wallets any more because I show the new ones off. Since I'm also known for saying "oh man, that's a nice wallet, that'll be what I use when this one wears out", it kinda makes it a disappointing gift to give, even though I would never say that and it not be true.

Haven't had a wallet in years. It's all on the phone now

My last 2 wallets were gifts.

I bought a wallet online and liked it a lot. I then bought two more of the same model as a gift for my father and a (female) friend. So IDK.

I have two wallets that I use:

• Big wallet with passport, foreign currency and other things that I need while on the go. Plenty of room for extra papers such as visa printouts, etc. Gift from a former employer.
• Small wallet with the cards I use every day and some unfiled receipts. Gift from my GF after she heard me whining about how my big wallet was too big for normal everyday use.

So it holds true for me, at least.

I’ve bought every wallet I've ever had.