The quest

[oletimer]

Why not condense and leave out what you don't have to have. Why take five when one will do? Ever so often I clean out and file what need filing, and throw away what needs throwing. I can can spend all the money that I have with one card and so on.

[Pastor Gary]

Why not condense and leave out what you don't have to have. Why take five when one will do? Ever so often I clean out and file what need filing, and throw away what needs throwing. I can can spend all the money that I have with one card and so on.

Okay: here's a typical Costco/Sam's run...

Show Costco Card at door (1), purchase personal items and pay with personal debit card (2), pick up paper goods for local church and pay with local church card (3), and also pick up office supplies for State Office, which must be paid with different (State) card for accounting purposes (4) -- that's four pieces of plastic and 3 receipts for one stop at one store.

Traveling? Forget it: Passport, multiple credit/debit cards, airline mileage cards, AAA card, medical cards... It's crazy.

Nope. I am resigned to the man bag, and am okay with it.

[oletimer]

Get a wheelbarrow, you need it. Do you them with you 24/7 or can group them and take just what you need at a time? I don't know these answers as I don't have kind of a problem.

[soulsearcher]

For me it's way beyond the wallet and credit cards, as in:

medication
camera
mints/gum/cough drops
notepad/pen
hand sanitizer
kleenex
water
snacks


... the list fluxuates according to the journey.

All of these things I used to carry in a brief case - for me, way more inconvenient and awkward.