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Rodgers01
02-20-2006, 12:39 AM
I have always, always kept my wallet in the front, right hand pocket of my
pants (I am male). It seems to me to be simply the most logical place: it is
typically the biggest pocket, allowing the wallet to slide down a bit more,
leaving less chance that it will be pick-pocketed. When you're in a crowded
room or a dangerous place where you think you might be robbed, all you have
to do is casually stick your hand in your pocket and hold on to your wallet
, and you know it won't be stolen. When you sit down you don't have to sit
on your wallet.
Yet my dad and brothers insist that the back pocket is the proper place to
put your wallet -- they have no reason but tradition, but the drawbacks seem
obvious. It's uncomfortable to have to sit on your wallet. If you want to
make sure your wallet is safe, you can't walk down the street with your hand
casually on your butt. It's typically a smaller pocket, making the wallet
stick out more, leaving it prey to thieves (or to falling out). Still, my
dad and brothers insist that only women put their wallets in their front
pockets.
So what's the proper place? Any benefit to the back pocket that I'm missing?
jayjay
02-20-2006, 12:52 AM
I keep mine in the same place, front right. I started doing that after my
pocket was picked 10 years ago, as a matter of fact, and for that very
reason.
Bambi Hassenpfeffer
02-20-2006, 12:58 AM
Home area -- back right, because it's never crowded enough for me to worry
about pickpocketing. My front right pocket's for my keys, and it gets awful
crowded in there if I shove the wallet in.
Vacation -- front right, if I carry it at all. I usually just pull the card
holder out of the wallet and carry that. It holds my license and 2 credit
cards, and I'll leave the rest in the hotel room. Still put the keys in the
front right pocket, if I'm carrying them.
garygnu
02-20-2006, 01:01 AM
Front left, with my cell phone cliped backwards to the same pocket. Keys in
front left.
I hate sitting on my wallet, and it's pretty thin.
garygnu
02-20-2006, 01:02 AM
Keys in front right, sorry. :smack:
some white dude
02-20-2006, 02:36 AM
Back left. I do get uncomfortable sometimes, but I feel like a part of me is
missing if my wallet isn't in the right spot.
Stark Raven Mad
02-20-2006, 02:46 AM
Front right, but I use a money clip and a case for my cards. The left pocket
is for my iPod.
Bear_Nenno
02-20-2006, 02:55 AM
Rear Right. I dont like having to dig for it, and the deeper front pocket is
more of a pain in the ass to get it out. If I'm working, then I have
pockets on the lower part of my shirt, and that's where I keep it at work.
MrJackboots
02-20-2006, 03:15 AM
Jacket, inside pocket.
Since I wear a jacket probably 350 days out of the year, and almost all of
my jackets have inside pockets, this strikes me as the perfect solution.
Traditional and keeps the wallet safe.
Barring that, I keep my wallet in a front pocket (either), because the back
pocket is for the pocketknife. The exception is for jeans, because 501s have
large back pockets that are still snug enough that I have to work the
wallet out; I don't think a pickpocket can get it from there without sending
me into a twitchy violent fit.
Fern Forest
02-20-2006, 03:22 AM
Also right front. Left front for keys and change. Back pockets are for paper
items for temporary storage like receipts, gum wrappers, movie ticket stubs
, $ bills (that I get handed when I don't particularly feel like pulling out
my wallet to store them properly) or any number of flat things I may find
myself in possession of.
Sublight
02-20-2006, 04:58 AM
Left front.
I kept it in the left rear for years, until I started developing lower back
pain. The massage therapist at the gym noticed that I seemed to be standing
kind of lop-sided, with my left side above my right, and I realised that it
was probably from sitting for so many years with my left buttcheek half an
inch higher than my right.
I switched to the front pocket and my back pain has all but disappeared.
Pushkin
02-20-2006, 05:09 AM
If I'm wearing my work trousers, I keep my wallet in my jacket pocket, if my
jeans, then wallet in the back left and phone in the back right pockets.
don't ask
02-20-2006, 05:18 AM
Front left but my wallet is just a card holder, I carry my cash in my right
pocket. Largely influenced by two things - losing my wallet with every penny
I had in the world one Christmas and working at the races where the
racecourse detectives stressed that you should never carry your wallet in a
back pocket.
Zeldar
02-20-2006, 05:24 AM
Unless I'm driving I don't carry my wallet. Folding money goes in a front
pocket, change in the other. When I need the wallet for the ID's and cards
in it, I carry it in my shirt pocket or jacket pocket.
The only thing I carry in a back pocket is a comb.
The last time I used a back pocket for a wallet was probably college days or
maybe a few years after that. Long ago. I decided if somebody was going to
pick my pocket they would have to work on the front one(s). Not that a good
pickpocket couldn't do that, but it ought to be a little more obvious.
Besides, I didn't like the way that wallet lump looked on other guys.
Especially the ones that had a chain attached to the wallet.
Dervorin
02-20-2006, 05:46 AM
Front; it changes depending on which hand I pick up my wallet with. Keys,
wallet, phone, handkerchief all go into front pockets. Back is just too
uncomfortable to sit on, or to bend over with.
Khadaji
02-20-2006, 06:25 AM
Either of the two front pockets.
Patty O'Furniture
02-20-2006, 08:28 AM
I am amazed to see all the front-pocket wallet-wearers. I make it a point to
check out the rear end of almost everybody I meet and I don't think I've
ever seen you people!
Just out of curiosity I tried it, and it's very uncomfortablel to sit down
with my wallet in the front pocket because that's where the crease between
my thigh and abdomen happens.
don't ask
02-20-2006, 08:41 AM
I am amazed to see all the front-pocket wallet-wearers. I make it a point to
check out the rear end of almost everybody I meet and I don't think I've
ever seen you people!
So everyone you check out has a tumour like lump on one or other buttock?
cactus waltz
02-20-2006, 08:46 AM
What most people miss out on is that pick-pockets don't only gor the
backpocket. If they catch a wallet in either backpocket, that'll be their
first goal. Their second goal is to examine both right back pocket and right
front pocket simultaneously. If they have time after that, they check both
left back and left front pocket simultaneously.
Hence, the safest spot of the four pockets is front left.
Which is where I tend to keep mine, if I don't have it in my jacket or
hidden inside my shoulder bag.
Spectre of Pithecanthropus
02-20-2006, 08:51 AM
Depends on what pants I'm wearing. If I'm wearing slacks or a suit it
usually goes in the front left pocket. I'm not sure why left instead of
right, unless it's the fact that I hold the wallet with my left hand and
reach into it with my right hand. I'd say that either pocket on the left
side the most logical place to carry it for right handed people. I don't
keep it in the back pocket because it eventually will cause a tiny hole to
appear at the edge of the pocket.
If I'm wearing jeans I use the left rear pocket; it's really where I prefer
to keep it. I don't have to go around with my hand "casually on my butt" to
know it's safe because I can always feel that it's there.
RealityChuck
02-20-2006, 09:26 AM
Left rear. And, no, I'm not lefthanded. I just got used to doing it that way.
fishbicycle
02-20-2006, 09:54 AM
Rear right, as I'm right handed. Wallet and comb go in that pocket.
I've only known one guy who kept his in the front. I think that bulge in
your pocket just looks strange. I imagine it'd be fairly uncomfortable, too.
Patty O'Furniture
02-20-2006, 09:54 AM
So everyone you check out has a tumour like lump on one or other buttock?
No, they have a wallet-like lump. What sort of tumor causes a raised flat
rectangular area on the skin?
gotpasswords
02-20-2006, 11:32 AM
A few years ago, my chiropractor grabbed my wallet out of my rear pocket and
said "I don't ever want to see this back there again." Would you willingly
sit all day on a chair that's an inch higher on one side? Probably not. Why
sit on a thick wallet all day?
I also keep my wallet thin - I'm not going to spontaneously walk three miles
to the video store, so the video card lives in the car. Ditto the Costco
card and a handful of other store cards. Why carry a half-inch thick stack
of store cards every place you go? All of the grocery store cards are
stashed at home as all the stores let you just punch in your phone number,
rather than carry yet another card.
caveman
02-20-2006, 12:08 PM
I carried my wallet in my front right pocket for years; all through high
school and well into college, in fact. However, as time went by, my volume
of pocket chattel exapanded to include first keys (which lived in the front
left pocket, and still do) and then a cell phone. Now, I was reluctant to
change, and originally tried to have my phone and wallet in the same pocket.
However, that makes for one heavy and bulky pocket! Since I don't want to
sit on my phone (as I think few of them are made to support my too-many
pounds of weight), the wallet goes in back by default. I keep it in the rear
left, as I find it easier to handle with my left hand, leaving my more
dexterous right hand free to fiddle with its contents.
corkboard
02-20-2006, 12:25 PM
For the last 15 years, I've used a money clip in the front left pocket- ID,
MasterCard, ATM card, insurance card, cash. Used to carry a wallet in back
left (I'm right-handed), but realized that 98% of the time I only need the
above items.
All other items are in a wallet in my briefcase, which I only carry with me
about 2 days/week. I realized that most of the cards in my wallet are more
for the card company's convenience, not mine. For instance- Triple-A card?
If I break down, I'll call and give them my name, they can cross-reference
my ID number to find that I'm a current customer.
iamthewalrus(:3=
02-20-2006, 01:05 PM
Front left. I used to carry it in the back left, but got tired of sitting on
it. I'm confused by the right-handers who carry their wallets in their
right pockets. I'm right handed, and that's why I carry it in my left. It
doesn't take that much dexterity to get the wallet out of the pocket, and
then it's in my left hand, leaving my right hand free to deal with money/
cards.
Quartz
02-20-2006, 04:23 PM
My wallet is in my front right pocket with my pocketwatch; my chequebook,
driving licence, and a bit of cash are in the rear right, and the pocket is
held closed by a button. Front left holds keys, coins, and handkerchief. I'm
strongly considering going back to the jacket wallet I used 15+ years ago,
since I'm a jacket person, and my wallet often tangles with my watch.
But I'm confused about those of you who say they were sitting on the
contents of your rear pocket: my rear pockets have never gone deep enough
for that.
BoringDad
02-20-2006, 04:36 PM
But I'm confused about those of you who say they were sitting on the
contents of your rear pocket: my rear pockets have never gone deep enough
for that.I wondered the same thing. Right reat pocket man here. When I am
sitting, my wallet is behind and above the portion of my butt that contacts
the chair. Does sitting on your wallet have something to do with saggy pants
fashion?
I have too much loose stuff in my front pocket to stick in my wallet - keys,
change, loose bills, handkerchief, pretty colored rocks... Try to pull out
the wallet from the front pocket and they all come spilling out on the floor.
Liberal
02-20-2006, 04:48 PM
Depends. If I have any $20 bills, left rear. Otherwise, left front.
Thudlow Boink
02-20-2006, 05:14 PM
Always front left. That way I can pull the wallet itself with my left hand
and take money out of it with my right. Keys go in my front right pocket.
caveman
02-20-2006, 05:36 PM
I wondered the same thing. Right reat pocket man here. When I am sitting, my
wallet is behind and above the portion of my butt that contacts the chair.
Does sitting on your wallet have something to do with saggy pants fashion?
I have too much loose stuff in my front pocket to stick in my wallet - keys,
change, loose bills, handkerchief, pretty colored rocks... Try to pull out
the wallet from the front pocket and they all come spilling out on the floor.
I've never sagged, myself. Just a touch baggy. As I sit now, the corner of
my wallet is between my keyster and my office chair. However, seats that are
harder and not open to the rear as this one is (say, a wooden church pew or
a nominally-cushioned bus seat) make more contact, and therefore exert more
pressue on my pocket contents. Also, I've been know to slouch.
tomndebb
02-20-2006, 10:04 PM
Always front left. That way I can pull the wallet itself with my left hand
and take money out of it with my right. Keys go in my front right pocket.
Same here. I have been surprised at the number of "front right" guys, here.
You hold your wallet in your right hand and fish for cards or cash with your
left? Does that mean the board is overrun with sinister individuals?
jayjay
02-20-2006, 10:06 PM
Same here. I have been surprised at the number of "front right" guys, here.
You hold your wallet in your right hand and fish for cards or cash with your
left? Does that mean the board is overrun with sinister individuals?
Nope. Take it out with right, switch it to left, take stuff out I need to
take out, switch it back to right, back into pocket. Yeah, it's a couple
more steps, but they take something like 1/2 second longer. And it's
automatic now.
Cunctator
02-20-2006, 11:05 PM
Back right pocket
NoClueBoy
02-20-2006, 11:24 PM
I keister it.
Somewhat inconvenient, sure. But no pickpocketing!
sunacres
02-20-2006, 11:25 PM
Front left, for many years now. Keys and phone front right.
But I'm not happy about it and I'm looking for another solution. Big bulges
on both sides make me look like I'm wearing jodhpurs. About 20 years ago I
worked in a refinery with a thumbprint ID system at the gates and I've been
wondering when we'd get on with a system like that which would allow me to
do away with the damn cards and keys. And perhaps a little lapel clip
instead of the flip phone. C'mon, and flying cars.
TJdude825
02-21-2006, 12:30 AM
If it hasn't been said already, I think the reason for the back pocket being
the "right" one is that it's roughly the same size and shape as a wallet.
However, most of the pants I wear have "cargo pockets" which are halfway
down, just above the knee, and these are also square, though bigger than a
typical back pocket, so I put my wallet in the right cargo pocket. When
wearing jeans or other pants without cargo pockets, I put my wallet in front
left, keys and cell phone in front right.
Giant_Spongess
02-21-2006, 12:42 AM
Umm...in my coat pocket?
I used to keep it in my right rear pocket, but then last year I sort of
realised I'm not 20 pounds overweight (never was, but I dressed like it) and
switched to Grown Up Girl pants, which apparently don't include pockets. So
I've been keeping it all all my other crap in my coat. Which means I'm
screwed come summer. Unless I get (gasp!) a purse. I'm not sure I'm ready
for that.
ZipperJJ
02-21-2006, 12:59 AM
I keep my wallet in my back right pocket.
I'm a woman who refuses to carry a purse.
But, like Giant_Sponges, the nicer I dress the harder it is to put a wallet
in my pants so having a coat does help. Every winter I am relieved when I
remember I can put my wallet (and phone and cigs and keys) in my coat. Maybe
that's why I love the Midwest!
I also prefer men's coats because they have lots of pockets you can use.
Apparently women don't need pockets. or something.
MrJackboots
02-21-2006, 01:52 AM
Same here. I have been surprised at the number of "front right" guys, here.
You hold your wallet in your right hand and fish for cards or cash with your
left? Does that mean the board is overrun with sinister individuals?
Huh, I never thought about that. I tried it a couple times tonight; if it's
in my left front pocket I take it out with the left hand and fish with my
right; if it's in my right front pocket (or the jacket pocket) I can do it
one-handed, because I keep all my bills in rigid order and can find exactly
what I need very easily. Credit cards take a little work, but I don't use
them nearly often enough for them to put a kink in my routine.
CynicalGabe
02-21-2006, 02:01 AM
I don't. I keep it in my laptop bag.
Omegaman
02-21-2006, 03:28 PM
I'm a man who doesn't like a bunch of junk in my pockets so I carry a purse.
I have done so since I was 16 and occasionally someone has a smart comment
but I am a fairly large dude so it's usually not a problem .I do however
keep my wallet in said purse.
Mr. Blue Sky
02-21-2006, 04:15 PM
Wallet: right rear pocket
Keys: right front pocket
Loose change, reciepts, etc: left front pocket
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