Camo wallet...not what I thought

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I was standing in line at the grocery store. The woman in front of me was holding her car keys and a tin of Altoids (no purse). As the clerk rang her up the woman took one of those purple produce rubber bands off the Altoids tin, opened the box and pulled out her credit card. I observed her driver's license and folding money in the box as well. I thought this was clever.

There have been a number of strong arm robberies in the grocery store parking lots in the last couple of years. I'm guessing would be robbers would have no interest in relieving a person of their fresh breath.
 
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A lot of folks are using metal wallets (and tins) for their credit cards and money.
Supposedly they stop people from being able to scan your credit cards via a portable RFID.
 
The boys also use the little bitty Altoid tins to carry their rocks-No probable cause plus they fixed that "plain view" problem they had with the TicTac containers ;)
 
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yaktamer said:
This gives me a great idea -- I'll start keeping my cash in a household cleaner container. No chance the wife will find it there....
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I have a good friend who struck out on his own in 1983 to be an interior decorator...he very quickly became successful and had the luxury of "rat hole" money.
He was stashing his treasure in an old Folger's coffee can with a plastic lid placed on a shelf in his garage amongst several small partial cans of paint and other lidded empty coffee cans. Plastic lidded coffee cans are very handy to painters.

One summer afternoon his wife decides to clean out the garage. Out went broken lawn chairs, carpet remnants, and a whole host of items you don't quite know what to do with so you stack them in the garage. She also tidied up his shelves, disposing of the mostly empty paint cans and all of the old empty coffee cans......somewhere in the local landfill resides an old Folgers' coffee can containing $4,500 in cash. I will not comment on the ensuing pause in marital bliss.
 
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I saw a young girl in McDonalds the other day get here credit card out of an Altoids can. I think it was to protect it from RFID scanners.

When my mother passed away we found three Planters peanut cans in her freezer with $5000 in $20 bills in each can. She paid for her own funeral and everything. Quite a woman she was.
 
I haven't carried a wallet in about 15 years. I carry my "papers" in a business card holder in right front pocket, cash on the left. An Altoids tin is a very clever solution though. Joe
 
My wife an I walk for our health an I picked up a real neat rectangular rounded tin box marker "Camel snus mellow 15 pouches" this is a very impressive little box, it seems its some kind of snuff or tobacco product as Winnie the pooh used to say "its very useful" Jeff
 
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My Dad and my Grand Dad always used Edgeworth Pipe Tobacco tins (almost identical to the Altoid tins) for everything from screws, nuts, small bulbs, etc. etc. and I've still got a few of them that I use as well. I have a small collection of Altoid tins waiting to be used for something as well. They make great containers to keep matches in on the Motorcycle too.
 
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