When I find a product or brand I love, I tend to stick with it especially if it’s something I use daily, like my phone/phone case, work shirts, shoes and my wallet.
How I fell in love with Secrid Wallets
My taste in wallets has changed over the years. I recall having a Goosebumps Velcro wallet in primary school, followed by more Velcro Billabong and Ripcurl wallets through high school, followed by something I can’t even remember that was on a chain during university (and then embarrassingly far into adulthood).
As I got older, these wallets got full of cardboard and plastic loyalty cards, big heavy Australian coins and other junk. I always had to have a wallet with a coin compartment. Or so I thought.
Sometime around 2016 or 2017 I replaced whatever I was using with a fancy leather wallet by Ben Sherman but found it uncomfortable to sit on. It was bulky and described as a “George Costanza wallet” by my Seinfeld fan coworkers.
(Me, apparently.)
I was introduced to the world of slimline men’s wallets by some of the other guys I worked with and found it quite liberating to imagine a world where I was sitting on something small and flat, not the size of a hamburger.
I think someone actually recommended Secrid SLIMWALLET to me as it had a cool lever to quickly access the cards I use the most, which was surrounded by an RFID/NFC-blocking case that kept bank cards safe. My previous wallets never had RFID/NFC-blocking features, and I’d never had my cards skimmed before… but I didn’t want to wait around and find out.
I bought my first one at a shop that specialised in leather goods in Camberwell and the moment I saw it, I knew I had to have it. It was a great wallet and lasted me 7-8 years before I replaced it. The reason why I replaced it was because it was getting pretty stretched out due to me falling back into my old habits and putting a million cards into it. Functionally it was still pretty good. I just wanted to go back to a slim wallet and after removing so many cards it was just too floppy for me.
Secrid Slimwallet Wallet Features
Whilst Secrid has a range of product variants, I prefer to keep it simple with te:
- RFID/NFC-blocking card protector that holds 4-6 cards and can eject them quickly.
- Leather Case
- Holds at least 6 additional cards
- Holds cash and receipts
- Can hold a coin or two, but may stretch
The other models include coin compartments, press-stud close functions, note straps and even one with double ejecting +RFID/NFC-block sections. All of these look a little bulkier to me and when it came to replacing my original, thought it best to go with the most similar one I could find on Amazon. So I got another black Secrid Slimwallet.
I didn’t like the look of the press-stud versions. I’ve nearly completely stopped using coins altogether now and hardly use cash, so most of the other features didn’t help me much.
The fact that as time progresses, more and more of my physical cards are being replaced by apps or Apple Wallet (I’m a long-term iPhone user). The need for more card storage in a wallet is shrinking all the time. I can’t see myself getting anything larger for my wallet ever again.
