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

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.

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.

My last 3 wallets I bought for myself. I don’t think I’ve been gifted a wallet since my teens. I’d definitely advise against anyone I knew wanting to buy me a wallet, I’m very particular in the kind I like and chances are very high I wouldn’t use the gifted wallet, or I’d try to return it.

Do men tend to ask for wallets as gifts? If so, it makes sense they would tend to get them as gifts then. My dad certainly did. He was very particular about brand and model, and he showed genuine appreciation when I tracked one down (especially prior to internet shopping being what it is). It made for a good gift.

No. My wallet is...fucking hell... 20 years old.

Have a weird / old wallet and people will try to upgrade you.

I had a gaffer tape wallet for many years.... People couldn't resist trying to replace it

I'm recovering from a wallet disorder. While searching for the perfect wallet I probably collected 20 or so. I've been using the same wallet now for two years so I think it's under control.

I prefer not to receive wallets as gifts.

I got a Sekrid card holder from my wife which I still use. Ive bought wallets to actually use but I've also used wallets I've received.

I bought myself a ridge wallet when they were basically a Kickstarter, back when they used rivets, but the rivets had a flaw where they started leaving wear marks in your jeans, so my then girlfriend bought me a new one with their screws. I still have that same wallet over 10 years later. So technically it's a gift still lol.

My brother likes my wallet but thought it was too expensive, so I bought him one as a gift. So it was technically a gift, but he would have got his own.

True. I dont think I’ve ever purchased one myself

I don't receive/want many gifts in general, but I'm rather particular about my wallets. My current one is out of cork, has RFID blocking, a coin pocket that folds open wide and a transparent card slot for my public transport ticket. The chance that a gift gets close to that is rather slim, so I'd rather just buy it myself...

Yes, and a new one is on my Christmas wish list. I might have bought one for myself my entire life

First it was my mom, then my ex, now I’m hoping my teens will take it up. This is the transition one: if I get one mud, I don’t need to think about it for another 5-10 years and they’ll be full adults by then

I've never gotten a wallet as a gift and have always had to buy my own. Even when I was a kid with my first wallet.

First two wallets I had, as a youth, were made of duct tape. The following two I had as an adult were gifts.

I made my wallet. It's just a faux leather pocket big enough to hold 4 cards

i've actually used maybe 2 of the dozens of wallets i've been gifted.

LPT "genuine leather" is the worst grade of leather. if you actually want to gift someone a wallet that will last, insist on full grain leather

I bought my current wallet because I was about to visit the UK and my typical Anerican sized wallet was too small for £20 and £50 notes.

That one was also self-purchased; it was made out of paper-thin plastic and dye-sublimated with a slightly oversized image of a KRW50000 note.

I clearly care what other peoole think of my choice of accessories.

I don't want gift wallets, there are like 0 chances I get what I want. Sometimes even for the ones I buy by myself.

I don't know, the pockets, the flatness... everything needs to fit right.

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

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.

Only when I was a kid.

Wallet preferences don't tend to come up in conversation so I'm not sure how anyone would know what to buy. Plus I get a new wallet maybe every 10 or more years, so it seems like an odd gift.

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.

It's a belief, not a trend.

Pretty much the way it has gone with me. I don't think that I have ever bought a wallet myself, nor requested one as a present, but nonetheless I have never had a shortage of them.

My current one does what I want it to, and has lasted for probably a decade or so so far. Still going strong too.

I've only ever been gifted wallets lol. Except for the one I actually use which is one of those card clips, I don't use cash.

Always bought my own wallets. And used it to oblivion, now that I think about it. And now that I think about that as well, I really should look into buying another, because the current is threatning to fall apart any moment.

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.

[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.

If you want a good wallet you buy it

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

I bought my last one, but this was true for my whole life up until that point. I'll replace it since it's made of leather. I'm hoping to find one I like with RFID blocking next.

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.

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...)

Like most other gifts, it's only acceptable if you put a specific one on a wish list and they bought that one. Who wants a random wallet? That's like buying a random watch, or cologne, or belt. Any accessory should be picked out by the person wearing/using it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 :)

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.

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.