Wait my Zoomer buddy definitely has a wallet thicker that George Costanza's. I'm starting to think the internet is just full of lies for making us hate each other.
I also heard by the socks. Millennials do no-show, but apparently high socks are the style now? Those will never not look super dorky to me, so I guess I’m old now.
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 young Millennial and I don’t understand why you wouldn’t carry a wallet. Mine is a slim front pocket one, but I need somewhere for my ID and cards. I despise phone wallets and I use tap-to-pay where possible, but not everywhere accepts them for some reason. I also don’t carry cash because I’m not a Boomer. If I’m buying/selling something off Craigslist or whatever, I just use Venmo.
Who doesn’t use a wallet? Are they referring to those card holders and not calling them wallets?
Gen Z here.
Do people really not have wallets now? There's so much I can't carry without a wallet, most importantly my ID. Am I expected to just put that loose in my pockets or bag?
And like, sometimes I'm forced to carry cash for one reason or another. I need a space place to put that.
I'm guessing it's just because the majority of my generation isn't old enough to be regularly encountering these issues. I'm 100% certain it'll change as they age the way I was forced to.
I can understand moving transactions to digital and not needing to keep cash or a debit card… but what about your ID? If I just stuck that in my pocket by itself I’d be worried about losing it!
I think it depends on where you are more than your age. I very rarely carry a wallet on me and I am definitely not Gen Z. That being said, where I live, every legitimate (i.e. non laundering/tax dodging) business accepts paying by phone. I can use public transport by scanning my phone, I can prove my ID by showing my phone, I can claim medical benefits by using my phone, and every franchise has it's own loyalty app I can download on my phone.
Where else do I keep the cash I need for food truck stops?
Like, the good ones that look like a moving hole in the wall. None of this newfangled hipster food truck with pos devices.
Lol, I have to carry my insurance card, ID, debit and credit as well as purchase and travel cards for work along with when I'm at a work site I need to carry my hotel key.
this seems totally made up, lol. im at the tail end of gen z and all my friends use wallets. mine may usually be empty, but how else you gon carry your ID and shit? "sorry officer I don't have ID, wallets are for oldheads"
Apparently gen z follow YouTubers and know drama/creators by name
One of them was really shocked that I don’t care to follow any and just search for the topic I want and pick whatever (separately I avoid videos with high viewcount or sponsors because then they are doing it for money not as a hobby)
There’s other things like they don’t love the song Smooth and play Minecraft even though they aren’t 9 anymore
Contemporary generational labels are as arbitrary as their boundaries, most of us just want to belong so we apply them to ourselves and say we must be X and they are Y, but you're just as likely describing trends people from any generational category may follow than insight into actual characteristics of the group.
I never carry cash unless I have to (for some reason dependent on where I'm going). I primarily use my phone to make payments, and I don't have a traditional wallet, but I do have a slim card-holder that carries my debit card, driving licence and one or two other important cards.
Do cardholders count for this? Because here everyone has at least that, even gen Z.
Much of that is because payment with phones haven't really taken on for physical payments, since Apple and Google pay don't support our payment system, Bankaxept, yet.
There is support on the way though, so this will likely change.
Well, to put it in perspective, anyone older than 20 is "old" to the youngest generation.
I'd kill to be 30 again. That's the age when you're in your physical and mental prime, you'll never be biologically or mentally better than then. And I was a skinny, purty, strong, smart sumbitch then. But I was too insecure to take advantage of it.
Older millienal. I bought the phone case wallet. Opens like a book. I'll admit, when it arrived and I slapped my new phone in it, I realized I've only ever seen old man and women use this kind of case. Felt weird for all of ten seconds. I fucking love it.
That being said, I am surprised how many people are asking where people keep their cards and cash. A lot of people literally just use pockets. Like, they raw dog cash, id, some credit or debit cards and got like 2 or 3 loose keys. Don't get me wrong, they are crazy people and I will literally laugh at them when they wonder aloud where their card is, they JUST had it. But it's a lot of em. (Worked in retail over a decade, still work in a field where I ask people for their stuff and payment).