• @NOT_RICK
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    42 days ago

    Sometimes I forget my wallet, but I still have my mobile payments. It’s nice to have the option of the same backup for ID. If it was mandatory digital I would change my opinion.

    • @over_clox
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      -12 days ago

      I sleep with my wallet in my pocket. I’ve never lost my wallet, and short of a mugging, I most likely never will. The only time I leave my wallet out of my pocket is when I shower and change clothes.

      Not only does it contain my ID, it also contains my barebones emergency survival kit. A credit card sized folding pocket knife, credit card sized Freznel lens that can start fires, and an emergency prescription eyeglass lens mounted in a keyring in case I ever lose my glasses.

      Those things won’t break or lose charge either.

      • @NOT_RICK
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        22 days ago

        The keyring glasses lens is a great idea.

        • @over_clox
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          12 days ago

          Well thank you kindly for that 👍

          Yeah, it came from an old dated pair of prescription glasses, still plenty close enough for emergency use. So, I took a lens from my old glasses and ground the edges down on a bench grinder to clip into a keyring that’s probably just over the size of a quarter.

          To see the indent of it in my wallet, you’d think it was a condom LOL! But nope, my vision is more important to me than anything else, I can’t even function in this world without my glasses.

          Thankfully I’ve never needed it since I made it, but I’ll be damned if I’m ever gonna lose it!