Apparently it’s a trend that most men just receive wallets rather than buying them

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    When I was younger, yeah.

    I think wallets are for people nobody knows what to buy for. Like getting them a tie. No hobbies, no interests, no personal declarations of what they might like. Or people just don’t know them well enough to get anything other than some generic gift like a wallet.

  • Rev. Layle@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    I always buy mine, and I would never ever tell anyone to buy me a wallet. I am pretty picky these days on what I want for a wallet. My wife is the closest person that could go buy me wallet and generally get the right kind, even then she’ll run it by me before pulling the trigger on such a purchase, to make sure I would use it

  • TriflingToad@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I bought mine

    Works well as a lanyard too, ADHD would be having me leave it everywhere if it weren’t strapped to my noggin

  • thanatotus
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    11 hours ago

    Yes, my family gifted me my first and second wallet.

  • kerrigan778@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I have only gotten one wallet as a gift ever, it was a family heirloom of sorts. All my other wallets I have used I have bought myself

  • dumbass@leminal.space
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    13 hours ago

    I keep getting wallets as gifts even though everyone knows I don’t use a wallet, I have a collection of wallets that will never feel the back of my ass.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 hours ago

      I really should get a new one. I think I bought one when I was 16, and another at 20. 15 years later it is falling apart but still have the same one. I wonder if that means I haven’t had a good friend or family member to buy me a wallet for 15 years. Sobering thought haha

  • just some guy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    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.

  • Default_Defect@midwest.social
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    13 hours ago

    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.

  • protokaiser@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    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.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      16 hours ago

      I made some amazing tape wallets back in the day. One of them was so well made it lasted more than 1 year.

      Funny enough I recently ended up finding a brand that makes paper “leather” slim wallets. Mine is lredy a few years old https://www.andersundkomisch.de/