Wallets 20 Credit Card Slots

Honeymoon is over in Canada. We have started paying the penalty for using credit cards to buy coffee or oil paintings. Example. We use a credit card to buy a pair of boots from Shoeless Shoes. The store used to pay the credit card company for the privilege. Beginning October 2022, we will pay that surcharge, not the store. I call it a punishment fee for not having cash.

The surcharge will be on top of the annual fee we pay the credit card company. Some years back, a credit card famous for its 'status fee’ waived it for the first year. Status fee?  No! No!  It’s got nothing to do with the unpaid balance. The status fee is for the pleasure of carrying such an elite credit card.

Seriously though. For once, I’ll do the unthinkable, defend banks. They are not the only culprit. There’s a good reason why people have more than ten credit cards. Their wallets.  You got it. 

The average wallet for both men and women has more than 20 spaces for credit cards. Well!  People can use them for their social insurance cards, gym or coffee cards, but that’s it.

Manufacturers of these wallets made those spaces for credit cards, period. Try and squeeze in business cards.  It won’t work. You have to bend them on the sides to fit in these wallet windows.

People who make wallets capitalize on the ego.  Our wallets must appear to be obese, to give the impression that we’re alright. 

The person behind you at the drugstore checkout will freak out when he sees you taking out money from a starving wallet: only one credit card and all nine credit card spaces are empty.  He might even send a tweet right away to tell the world about it.

It’s all about availability.  If wallets have only one credit card space, we’ll carry one.  I saw that.  You checking out your wallet. 

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.