Where do you carry your wallet?  A recent plot element of a broadcast
TV show had a driver removing wallet on a long drive.  I didn't 'get it'
as I have as long as I remember have always carried my wallet in the
right front pocket. So genetic males only, where do you carry your
wallet and why?

119 responses total.

When I'm wearing 'civilian' clothes, my 'wallet' is really just a small 
leather 'fold' that can hold my driver's license, NRA membership card, 
health insurance 'ID', and a couple of credit cards.  I carry it in my 
right front pocket.  Less easy to 'lift' when you're in places like 
Brazil, where I first learned not to carry it in a 'back' pocket, and 
supposedly easier on the spine and it's surrounding 'tissues' as well.  
If I have any cash left after the kids are through with me, I carry 
it 'loose' in my left front pocket.  Seldom more that 1K$US

When I'm dressed like an 'adult' for whatever purpose, 
usually 'business' travel, my 'wallet' is a long slim leather 'fold' 
that holds my passport, my driver's license, my credit cards, my health 
insurance 'ID', my cash, and a few 'other' things.  I carry it in the 
inside left-hand pocket of a gray suit where if I'm careful it 
is 'invisible'.

Now, will somone in authority here please look at the first line of the 
previous paragraph.  You will probably see that the line is unnaturally 
short, ending on the word "purpose."  This sometimes happens on 
Backtalk when the next line contains quotation marks.  Why?  [If the 
line doesn't look like that, never mind.]

Jim puts everything in his backpack including the wallet and about 20 other
pounds of tools and floppy disks.

I keep my wallet in my left rear pocket, although on the (very!) rare
occasions when I wear a suit I might carry it in the inside breast pocket.
If I'm in a situation where I worry about pickpockets I'll move it to a front
pocket, but usually the front pockets are already full of keys, change, and
geek tools.

I also keep my wallet from accumulating too much clutter (receipts mostly)
and I ended up making my own out of canvas to avoid unnecessary thickness and
complexity.

I used to carry my wallet in my right rear pocket.  Then I started
experiencing the unpleasantnesses alluded to above:  spiky, tingly pain
in my right leg, numbness, and other, similar, expressions of too much
pressure on a nerve.  One response to that was to remove my wallet before
a long drive.  Eventually, I found another solution.  I carry cash change
in a money clip and loose change in one front trouser pocket and keys
and knife in the other front trouser pocket.  My comb is where my wallet used
to be: right rear pocket.

Other things get carried where possible.

Look how quickly people divulge  personal information about where they
carry their valuables. You would think that 9/11 hadn't happened.

/me fails to see how 9/11 has anything at all to do with this

        Right front pocket, for the reasons listed above.

Sometimes the right rear pocket, sometimes a jacket pocket, sometimes 
the right front pocket, sometimes my brief case, sometimes I leave it 
home and just carry some cash and a credit card.

I've always carried my wallet in my right rear pocket.  However, I think I'm
going to switch to a thinner wallet with less contained in it and keep it in
my left front pocket (keys in right).  That sounds like a better way.  I
wouldn't normally want to carry it off my body like in a backpack.  I hope
no terrorist wallet thieves are reading this.

  Left rear pocket, unless I'm in a crowded touristy place (in which case I
  use my best judgment as to which is the most secure pocket on whatever I
  happen to be wearing.)

#5: Al Qaeda operatives are always asking people, "Where does Rane Curl 
keep his wallet?"  You are wise not to disclose it.  I had no idea you 
were that important.  ;-)

Left rear pocket, but I put it in a coat pocket or the glove 
compartment if it gets uncomfortable while driving.

i carry my wallet in my right cheek rear pocket that contains ID and other
useful cards. i keep my money in my front pocket. if i'm wearing something
with no pockets i'll keep it all in my coat pocket. if it's summer i carry
a small cordoroy <-sp? drawstring sachel with wallet and tobacco etc. i'm a
female and i wonder why i'm not supposed to be participating.

Maybe we females should start an item about purses and exclude the men.
Men used to carry purses in the seventies.

briefcases could be considered to be purses..

I keep my briefs in my briefcase.

I've always carried my wallet in my front pocket.  It's always been a big
bulky thing.  I've never understood why anyone would want to sit on it.  Yick.
Lately I've shift to wearing almost exclusively canvas work pants.  These tend
to have cavernous front pockets.  I can carry messes of stuff without having
to put anything in the back pockets.

By the way, although I always carry my wallet in my front pocket, I still
sometimes remove it before getting into a car.  This mainly happens if I'm
going to have to pay a parking attendent.  I'm a tall person in a small car,
and getting my wallet out of my pocket while I'm belted in is a substantial
gymnastic exercise.  Better to get it out before I get into the car.

Inside pocket of my jacket.

I used to keep my wallet in my left back pocket.  I realized this was
doing unpleasant things to my posture, was uncomfortable, and was
destroying pants, so I've taken to keeping the wallet in my backpack
most often.  If I'm paying tolls and such on the highway, I may instead
put it in an indented "coin well" just behind the hand brake lever in my
car, where it's easy to reach.  In winter, if I end up shopping
somewhere where it's inconvenient to put the wallet in the backpack, I
may put it in my coat pocket, or if I'm not wearing a coat, my back left
pants pocket.  In summer, if I'm riding the motorcycle, it may end up in
one of the pockets of the aerostich.

right rear pocket.  always have, always will.

I presume that md is asserting in #11 that he considers himself of no
importance whatsoever, and hence carries his walnet on a cord around his
neck.

I thought about the issues touched in #5 and so moderated my response.

Re the ladies:  In general, y'all don't carry wallets in trouser pockets. 
Even wearing jeans, most women carry a purse.  So they wouldn't have direct
experience.  Still, there are always exceptions. ;)

Nine months of the year, I keep my wallet in my coat or jacket pocket. The
summer months, I carry it in my left front pocket.

22: Why do you presume that??

Here's a question fo both men and women:  Where do you carry your phone?

My pager is clipped to my belt.  My phone is on my desk (at work) and various
tables (at home).

re #25: I don't. No cell phone here.

I carry my cell phone in a jacket pocket, a backpack/briefcase, or (in rare
cases) in a back pocket.  I refuse to clip it to my belt; that's a fashion
no-no.  

I don't know where I would carry a cell phone if I carried one. I dislike
being encumbered by anything larger than my wallet. I carry instruments
on field trips in a backpack, but I wouldn't want to carry a backpack just
to carry a cell phone. I carry a "business card" calculator. I'd like
a cell phone about that size, if I needed one.

Cell phone goes in front pocket.  Sometimes the same one as the wallet. 
Big pockers.

When I'm not in my room, the cell phone lives on the belt, just behind 
the right front pocket.  (when I'm in the room, it lives on the desk).  
The rest of my belt, at various times, carries a leatherman, a 
mini-maglight, a full sized maglight, and on occasion a walkie talkie.  
THere have also been occasions when I've got 3 phones on the belt at 
once (my cell phone, cordless landline phone for work, and work cell 
phone)

I don't have a cel phone. I find that most people who have them use them to
annoy people who don't. I will probably eventually have one and keep it turned
off most of the time.

I usually carry the cell on my belt on my right hand side.

        *uses his cell phone to annoy brighn*

in my pocket or in a bag

Fat-with-junk trifold wallet in the right front pocket of somewhat-tight
jeans.  If any pickpocket's ever gone for it, the found the contents so
disappointing that he put it back in my pocket.

Re: #5 - my *real* wallet (with no-search Oval Office access pass, nuclear
bomb blueprints, billion$ in Treasury Bills payable to "bearer", etc.) is
hidden inside a half-spoiled stuffed pork chop in my fridge, where no self-
respecting terrorist would dream of looking.

I carry my cell phone in my coat or jacket pocket.

*throws John's cell phone in the closest waterway*

I use the cell phone almost every day to call my wife to tell her I'm 
on the way to pick up my son, or to call or receive calls from my son.  
I never turn it off.  I just recharge the battery a lot.

I stay pretty close to using the 100 minutes per month which are 
allocated with my plan through Cingular.

The cell phone is important to me.  Please don't take it from me.

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