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Best Slim Wallets
While I was raising kids and gradually accumulating health insurance, credit cards, and plastic loyalty cards (Panera! H Mart! That boba tea place we love), my traditional black-leather Dad Wallet ballooned in size. Though Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites helped usher in an era of slimmer, fashion-forward, and often minimalist styles that rethought the design of men’s wallets, I was still stuck somewhere around 1995 with an ever-growing bulgy billfold.Get more news about Rfid Pop Up Wallet,you can vist our website!
The thick, stuffed back-pocket wallet has a name, and it’s not a kind one: "The Costanza Wallet," named for George Costanza on the TV show "Seinfeld" who famously carried a receipt-coupon-napkin-stuffed billfold that eventually exploded.
It didn’t take long into this assignment, tasked with looking at 11 varying styles of slim wallets, that I became convinced that I have been carrying an excessive load in my back pocket (another mistake, but we’ll get to that) for far too long. The rise of slim wallets not coincidentally coincided with the rise of smartphones, which have made carrying photos of loved ones, Subway sandwich punch cards, paper business cards, and even cash mostly unnecessary. Where before we may have needed to carry 10 or 11 cards with us all the time, we may need only three or four now. That smaller cargo no longer requires a sizable form factor; the time to slim down, if you haven’t already, is here. I’m ditching the Dad Wallet for good.
What's a Slim Wallet?
For the purposes of these reviews, we looked at wallets that either rethink the idea of a traditional bifold or trifold wallet into a completely new form—such as aluminum cardholders and wallets that are basically two pieces of metal held together with a strap—or that offer the traditional leather wallet experience in a slimmed-down, smaller, and lighter form.Nearly all the wallets have some sort of RFID protection, a security feature meant to protect your tap-to-use credit cards or passport from wireless hacking.
What we didn’t review was wallets that double as smartphone cases or accessories. There’s a whole market of wraparound phone carriers that include card compartments and other wallet features or ones that piggyback onto your phone, such as Apple’s MagSafe wallet. I stuck to stand-alone wallets in these reviews.
Three wallets I tried have the cardholder form factor, where a lever or switch pops a set of credit cards out from the top, ideally arrayed in a fan so that you can quickly grab the one you need. Unlike the popular Secrid and the ultra-low-priced Vulkit, however, Ekster’s Senate Cardholder features a design that keeps that pop-up switch level with the aluminum cardholder. It doesn’t jut out of the bottom as the switch does on the Secrid and Vulkit, making them more likely to catch a loose thread in your pocket or the edge of the pocket itself. The Ekster also includes a very elegant-looking cash strap and single cardholder to hold your bills on the outside with the company’s logo emblazoned on the front and keep a card on the outside, such as a Metro card for tap-to-go. Thoughtfully, the company includes an extra strap without the cardholder, to slim things down even further, inside a very beautiful box. The cardholder comes with several user-friendly heavy cardstock infocards, including a QR code for the user manual, the company’s story, and a 10 percent discount code to give to a friend. The pricing puts this right between those other cardholder options, but the overall design and exquisite packaging makes it my top choice, especially at a discounted price of $63 on the company’s website.