For awhile I have been using a money clip for my cash, and small card case for my ID, credit cards, etc (much smaller than a standard wallet) because I feel it is safer to keep the cash separate from the rest of what is normally in a wallet. One of my grown kids laughed and said "Dad, you really are from the "olden days" with that money clip. What's next, a pocket watch?" Made me wonder how many others use a money clip or am I really just old fashioned?
Is using a money clip make you an old fogie?
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graygun
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yes
cadillo
Blackhawk
Well, I shave with a Double Edge Safety Razor, and lather with a brush and mug. When it occasionally comes up in conversation, a lot of folks don't even know what they are, and most of those who do, just don't believe me.
Thankfully I can find good quality soap and blades on the internet. Try finding them in a store. LOL
Thankfully I can find good quality soap and blades on the internet. Try finding them in a store. LOL
Uh oh..... I use a money clip (without the clip) AND a pocket watch.
I have never carried cash in my wallet on a regular basis. An emergency 50 or 100, yes, but not spending cash.
I have never carried cash in my wallet on a regular basis. An emergency 50 or 100, yes, but not spending cash.
OP
I guess I am just an old guy, behind the times. Of course I am typing this on a 486 PC, through my telephone modem. I might have to get the Dodge Dart running to take me to the store to get a new adding machine one of these days. And my old Dumont TV is starting to get dim, so its hard to watch Walter Cronkite on the evening news. It will be dark soon so I better take down the flag which flies every day in my front yard.
Just kidding. Except for the flag.
Just kidding. Except for the flag.
GunnyGene
Hawkeye
Something to keep in mind: Everyone will be an "old fogie" eventually ------- if they're lucky and smart enough. :) The goal is to live as well as possible for as long as possible.
Bob Wright
Hawkeye
I've always thought of those who don't carry a billfold as "yuppies."
I carry a tri-fold billfold in my hip pocket, and a flat billfold (sort of like a check book cover) in my inside breast pocket.
Bob Wright
I carry a tri-fold billfold in my hip pocket, and a flat billfold (sort of like a check book cover) in my inside breast pocket.
Bob Wright
prairieviper
Single-Sixer
I carry a money clip and that may or may not be a carryover from "the olden days" as your son so eloquently put it. It may just mean I'm organized. I like it that way.
If a rubber band wrapped around money and credit cards is considered a money clip then I carry a clip. From what I've seen of kids these days they don't carry cash. Everything goes on the credit card. Have you ever been in line at a convenience store waiting on a kid who is charging his .99 coke?
coach
Hunter
Yea, you're and old fart. Kids don't carry cash much anymore. You need to catch up with a debit card and Apple Pay. ;)
I would say more like a Wise old foggie. When was the last time you lost or misplaced something out of your front pocket??? Probably never. How many times have you lost or misplaced a wallet??? When was the last time you bought something and were told---sorry we don't take cash??? Just about everything in a wallet can be replaced. Have you ever tried to replace cash???
I started using one when I was about 10 for keeping the cash organized while doing the collections on my paper route. My cash in one front pocket, and the newspaper money in the other. I got my son started early and he uses one at 18. He does not carry a bunch of cash but what he does carry, he has in a money clip. A one dollar bill on the outside, the big bills in the middle, and then the rest of the singles to keep the big bills covered.
I started using one when I was about 10 for keeping the cash organized while doing the collections on my paper route. My cash in one front pocket, and the newspaper money in the other. I got my son started early and he uses one at 18. He does not carry a bunch of cash but what he does carry, he has in a money clip. A one dollar bill on the outside, the big bills in the middle, and then the rest of the singles to keep the big bills covered.
whichwatch
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cadillo said:
A double edge safety razor, shaving brush and a mug have what to do with a money clip?
I have used a money clip for many years. I AM an olden days guy.
Are you sure you posted in the correct topic?
cadillo said:
Are you sure you posted in the correct topic?
cadillo
Blackhawk
AJGUNNER said:
Just last week as a matter of fact. T-Mobile informed me that they had not received my latest payment, which apparently got delayed in the mail. I went to the office, and tried to pay the bill in cash, and request that once the check arrived to just post it as an account credit, but NOOOOOOO!. They will not accept cash or check at the store/office; credit card payments only. I left and called their main office and learned that the check had finally arrived.
I think that the day when cash will be hard to spend with the big outfits is coming quicker than we think. There's even talk of making the vinyl credit cards obsolete and trying to make everyone pay for things by credit card account via smart phones. Sort of a Mark of the Beast sort of thing I guess.
I'll be screwed. I can barely send a short text message, and sure can't do more than talk or text a little bit on a phone.
cadillo
Blackhawk
Fox Mike said:
Yes! Are you sure that you took your Geritol this morning?
contender
Ruger Guru
Gee am I doubly old as I have 2 money clips?
Sometimes I use a small, nickel binder clip for a money clip. Usually just money folded around my driver's license and one credit card. I use this method when I travel by air.
contender said:
Let me guess---one for the every day cash and another for the gun money??? :)
contender
Ruger Guru
:D :D
Actually you are pretty close! I keep one put up in the safe with DEEP reserve emergency $$$ & one is gun money. My everyday walk around is still in the wallet.
Something I've done as a quirky habit. Whenever I get $$ from the bank or wherever, and the bills are the older, plain colors, small pic of the prez's,,, (The ones w/o the security strips etc,) I set them aside to go into my deep reserve. Kinda fun like that.
Actually you are pretty close! I keep one put up in the safe with DEEP reserve emergency $$$ & one is gun money. My everyday walk around is still in the wallet.
Something I've done as a quirky habit. Whenever I get $$ from the bank or wherever, and the bills are the older, plain colors, small pic of the prez's,,, (The ones w/o the security strips etc,) I set them aside to go into my deep reserve. Kinda fun like that.
Pal Val
Buckeye
There's more to a money clip than first meets the eye. Some young crook once put a knife to my friend Charlie's neck and demanded his money. Charlie took his money clip out of his pocket, fumbled with it and dropped it. When the mugger bent down to pick it up, Charlie drew his gun and put it to his head. Next, the would-be mugger dropped the knife and the money and ran away.
End of story.
End of story.
powder smoke
Hawkeye
GunnyGene said:
Tough to argue with that! Old fogie Yup and proud I made it!
And yes money clip is what I use. ps
Biggfoot44
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Money Clip is marginal , depends on totality of the circumstances. Now a Coin Purse, go strieght to Old Fogie, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
foxtrapper
Blackhawk
Congrats you have lived long enough to push past old fogey, to being hip. Money - credit card clips are "in" with the young professionals !http://www.zclip.com
GunnyGene
Hawkeye
The progression goes like this:
Senior Citizen: You get regular mail from AARP, and people selling hearing aids.
Old Fogie: Pocket watches and similar stuff
Hipster: Widows about your age look at you as potential financial security, because you drive a sports car.
Dirty old man: Young women avoid you.
Respected Elder: Young women want to date you (again).
Senior Citizen: You get regular mail from AARP, and people selling hearing aids.
Old Fogie: Pocket watches and similar stuff
Hipster: Widows about your age look at you as potential financial security, because you drive a sports car.
Dirty old man: Young women avoid you.
Respected Elder: Young women want to date you (again).
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To answer the question, NO. It means you have enough money to use the clip!
Biggfoot44 said:
:lol: Ha! That's for sure Bigfoot44, but only if the Coin Purse is used for carrying coins. What I mean is, I AM an Old Fogie, but I found out many, many years ago (before I became an Old Fogie) that one of those squeeze type plastic Change Purses works great for carrying a handful of .22 shells when you're out bumming around in the hills with a .22 revolver on your hip. :D
P.S. I didn't call the squeeze type plastic Change Purses what I've always called them because I'm an Old Fogie and consider using that terminology impolite in mixed company. :lol:
cadillo
Blackhawk
whichwatch said:
A generational thing. You're probably too young to relate.
In my opinion the OP's main theme was being considered old fashioned due to having habits and personal items mostly unknown to most of today's people.
I too used to carry cash in a money clip, but, but somehow graduated to a rubber band some forty years ago.
In my world money clips, double edge razors, blades, and shaving mugs are mostly unknown to folks I currently know. The ones who did understand have just about all crossed over Jordan now. I should have known that this would fly over the heads of the newer generations.
Revolver-Time
Single-Sixer
cadillo said:
I'm afraid too many things fly over the heads of the newer generations. Tradition just like education and morality are all just cute old notions.
I believe what is causing the questions to be asked of "cadillo" is the fact that the original posts question wasn't "What makes you an old fogie?" but the question was about ONE specific item; a money clip. I too have a shaving mug and double edged razor but that wasn't the question.
