Saving log - $4 tip box
Spending log - $1.19 coffee, milk + $18 lunch
Lots of changes happening to our lunch group. Finnish friend and his partner are moving to Memphis, screenwriter friend is changing jobs - he'll be working across the street from lawyer friend and I. We had the dim sum lunch for Finnish friend and paid for it.
After lunch, I watched as lawyer friend checked the money in his ancient, broken down, falling-apart, held-together-by-the -cloth in the pocket, brown wallet. "You know, when I was in the Paris Flea Market I was very tempted to buy you a new wallet," I said.
And I was, but I thought better of it. I didn't even buy wallets for my DH, or rather, I have in the past, but I knew that unless the guy bought it, he wasn't going to use it. Even if it was the perfect size, perfect color, had the perfect number and type of pocket...even if it was exactly the same as the old wallet, except that it was new...probably wouldn't be used. The guy has to buy his own wallet, and it has to be a situation where any wallet is better than the old one.
Of course when you get a new wallet, you have to configure it - figure out which pocket gets what card, whether you fold the money and receipts, what order the money goes in. And since the new wallet is going to be a lot stiffer than the old one, the pockets are hard to use. I think that's the real hassle of the new wallet - new wallet, new configuration, lots of tinkering to get the maximal ease of use.
wallets
February 27th, 2008 at 04:51 am
February 27th, 2008 at 04:59 am 1204088393
February 27th, 2008 at 02:02 pm 1204120948
I wanted to scream!
February 27th, 2008 at 05:55 pm 1204134954
Another item is the money clip. Unless the guy is already using a money clip, he most likely isn't the money clip kid of guy. If he is using a money clip, they are pretty sturdy and will last forever. I have a friend that received a money clip as a gift and out of guilt, he holds his cash in it and places it in his wallet. Go figure.
March 9th, 2008 at 04:12 am 1205035920