Will wearing a nice wallet in a pant pocket wear it out faster?

I'm planning to get a nice wallet soon. I know that the most important thing to do to care for it is not treat it as a filing cabinet. But I'm wondering if constantly keeping it in pant pocket (i.e, vs. in a suit jacket pocket) will wear it out faster?

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Yes, but that shouldn't stop you. If that's where you prefer to keep your wallet, keep it there and just expect to replace it every few years.

Things wear out. If you can't afford to replace them when they do, you shouldn't buy them.

Yes. This is why people that don't wear suits carry their wallets around in their hands, on a velvet pillow everywhere they go.

Could go with a money clip if you're worried about wearing out your pants or wallet too fast. I've found it hard to go back to a normal wallet after simplifying my life into a money clip.

Exdeath said:

Yes. This is why people that don't wear suits carry their wallets around in their hands, on a velvet pillow everywhere they go.

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Thats exactly how I do it. But that comes with a bigger risk. A risk of forgetting your wallet. How ever attentive you be, there will be at least once you'll forget it somewhere. So, go ahead keep it in your pants. Replace it in a few years..!

The trousers are the best place to keep it, you never take them off whereas whatever people say jackets are. It will wear a little quicker but not excessively so go ahead and do so without worrying. You have the best thought already - don't use it as a filing cabinet - that will promote quick wear.



ayush12345 said:

Thats exactly how I do it. But that comes with a bigger risk. A risk of forgetting your wallet.

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Exdeath said:

Yes. This is why people that don't wear suits carry their wallets around in their hands, on a velvet pillow everywhere they go.

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That's why one who carries a wallet, without wearing a suit, really needs a wallet keeper chain.

One end of the chain attaches securely to the wallet, and the other end of the chain locks around the wearer's wrist. So it's basically impossible to forget your wallet.

There's also the double-loop keeper chain style, where a second chain connects the wallet to the velvet pillow.

Current fashion calls for what are by many traditional standards ridiculously short wallet keeper (and wallet-to-pillow keeper) chains. With really tight links.

A while back, I picked up a really wallet keeper chain, from this website which had an unadvertised 6-minute sale, for members only. It cost me $450 (regular price - $1395), and even came with a matching tweed wallet pillow. (Tweed is at least as tradly as is velvet, and some people are still uncomfortable seeing a man carrying around a velvet pillow. As I regularly wear this wallet keeper chain at work, where many of my colleagues are pretty old fashioned about the whole "man carrying velvet pillow" thing, a tweed pillow is just the safer choice.)

Admittedly, tweed is more abrasive than velvet, so the wallet tends to wear out sooner, but life is about trade-offs, right?

Plus, the tweed wallet pillow matches my tweed briefcase case.

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GBR has it right.

May I suggest a concept?

If it is so nice that you are worrying about wearing it out prematurely by putting it through what you'd otherwise consider normal use for a less expensive item, then you shouldn't buy it.

Just sharing my own thinking and advice.