Keep Track of Your WalletI like to have a small slim one-fold wallet that I can put in my right hand front pants pocket. I keep it in my right side because I am right-handed. It has an outside pocket, a clear plastic pocket for driver’s license, 2 inside pockets on the right side, 2 inside pocket s on the left side, a hidden pocket under the left side inside pockets and a money clip on the inside. here it is - I keep it organized as follows: 1. Cash in the money clip on the inside. I like to have quite a bit of money on me. I shoot for at least $100. 2. Extra cash in the hidden pocket. This is where I keep at least a few hundred. I am working toward a thousand or two. 3. Credit cards (1 or 2) are in the right side inside pocket. 4. Bank card(s) in the right side inside pocket. These cards have my bank number for deposits and withdrawals. 5. Check card in the right side inside pocket. 6. Driver’s license in the outside plastic coated pocket. 7. Library card in the left side inside pocket. 8. Health insurance card in the left side inside pocket. 9. Car insurance card in the left side inside pocket. 10. Starbucks card in the left side inside pocket. 11. Hollywood Video rental card in the left side inside pocket. 12. Sam’s Club card in the left side inside pocket. 13. Fishing license in the left side inside pocket. 14. Small pencil in the outside pocket. 15. A few folded index cards in the outside pocket. The pencil and index cards are really handy for making a few notes, random notes or phone numbers. This is quite a bit of stuff but it is still slim as long as I am not carrying a lot of small bills. This wallet really works great to hold everything I need and still be thin. Those big tri-fold wallets that you put in your rear pocket are not right for me. I find sitting on one very uncomfortable and hard on my back. I go through it all the time to organize the money and check if anything can come out. I am fanatical about checking on it. I keep it in my front pocket so I can make sure it is there constantly. It is just a natural move to check on it. The last day of summer vacation in 1983 before I was going to my first day of college was spent at my grandmother’s cabin at Rock Dam, which is a lake 18 miles south of my hometown. My family and I were there with some of the other relatives on my mother’s side. I remember being melancholy because my life was going to be changing in less than 24 hours. I was going from living a nice, comfortable, sheltered life with my parents for the last nearly 19 years, to going off on my own into college 180 miles away. I was trying to savor the last few hours at the cottage but I don’t think I was doing too good of a job.
After dinner about 7:00 pm we went home. When we got back I checked my bags because my parents were going to be driving me to the school in the morning. I was nervous as I went through my stuff for what seemed like the hundredth time. As I was checking, I couldn’t find my wallet. I was frantic. I looked through my bags and all over my room. It was nowhere to be found. I couldn’t believe it. How could this happen. I needed the wallet. I had some very important cards that I needed to check into school the next day. Not to mention my driver’s license and all the cash that I was going to need that fall.Where was it? I finally told my parents that I couldn’t find my wallet. I thought I had it at the cottage earlier that day. My dad, who’ll do anything for his kids, said “get in the car, we’ll go back to Rock Dam and look there”. The whole ride there I was worried sick that we’d get there and couldn’t find it. It seemed like the longest ride of my life, even though it was only 18 miles. When we finally got there, I dashed inside and looked everywhere I was earlier that day. I finally found it in a corner by the bookshelf where I was sitting on the floor looking at the old books that I loved to read at the cabin. The relief was incredible and the lesson was priceless. KEEP TRACK OF YOUR WALLET; IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU OWN. I don’t think it is too much of a stretch to say that a man’s wallet may be his most important possession. Your driver’s license, insurance cards, credit cards and money make it possible to do anything in life. You could literally start with just the clothes on your back and your wallet. Everything else can be purchased again. This incident has kept me fanatically aware of my wallet at all the moments since then for the last 24 years. I have not misplaced it since. Go Back to Wallet (Top of This Page).
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