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As a gen z this confuses me, I have a wallet and most people around my age also have one. Sure maybe you could say if they carry cash or not cause I definitely don't carry cash but I still have my wallet cause theres a lot of places that don't accept phone payments.
I'm a mid-range millennial and don't carry cash, my wife is a slightly younger millennial and also doesn't carry cash. I think probably most non-elder millennials don't, but I think everyone needs a wallet. Gotta carry your ID and stuff somehow
I'm a relatively young millennial, and I carry cash because I sometimes go to events where some people don't accept cards.
Even us elder millennials often don't carry cash. I'm so elder, I might as well be gen-x. And until recently it had been years since I carried cash.
Same. If I have cash it's because I needed it for something specific and haven't managed to get rid of the change.
I've started carrying it more recently during times when money is tight. Helps me keep from overspending.
Totally get that. I did exactly that for years until I came up with a (slightly convoluted) system that works for me.
Same
A lotta zoomers have phone cases with their id and stuff in them, which might be the alternative? Personally I never trusted myself to not lose my phone and be really fucked.
I agree with your last statement, but that's still a wallet. It's just a phone case wallet, or MagSafe wallet in some cases (which feels even scarier IMO, I don't trust magnets that much)
Elder. Only carry cash when I really need it.
Elder zoomer here. I have a wallet for all of my cards, those for pay, for insurance, for identification, etc.
Unfortunately my country doesn't have the option for those to all be digital, so I'm still limited to something physical. Probably for the best anyways. It's better to have redundant versions of those, in physical or digital form, in case one method is lost.
If zoomers at large don't carry wallets, even in countries where digitization is easy, that's just as risky as only carrying those cards in a wallet. It might be even more risky because you need your phone to be on to access that information, meaning chargers are necessary as well as a source of electricity. Not so easy in all regions of the world. Solar + batteries would work, but that's more to carry around, when you could simply carry a wallet.
I have to carry medical cards and a wallet is needed for that and my debit card. Also anything like loyalty cards for stores or coffee shops. I'm just on the upper end of gen z as well.
But do you have a WALLET, like a trifold, or a money clip style one?
I have one of the fold style ones, I tried a money clip style one and it just felt weird to me.