The DM1 is lightweight but satisfyingly rigid. Realistically, however, I find myself conducting the majority of my transactions using either plastic or my phone (Apple Pay), and this is likely to be even more true in the future.The construction quality is great. (Although, unlike US dollars, those currencies are various physical sizes, so that might introduce another potential complication.)I’ve never been in the habit of using a money clip before, so I anticipate some degree of a learning curve here. I haven’t yet tried it with Euros or Pounds, but I imagine with some degree of folding it shouldn’t matter too much. I currently have 3 US $20 bills and a $5 bill folded twice (ie, in fourths) and although it looks like a relatively loose fit, it hasn’t budged in the few weeks I’ve been playing with it. The money clip takes the place of the very bottom card, and extends out the back. I have a general sense of which ones lie in between, so it’s pretty easy to get to the one I want. It works shockingly well.What I’ve done is to put my most-used card on top, and my least-used one on the bottom. Do the opposite to replace it again, and slide them all back home to engage the locking mechanism once more.
Then slide the cards out underneath it until you get the one you want, and pull it out. This stents the DM1 open to allow either that card or other cards to be extracted. You can now turn the wallet upside down, shake it around, and play catch with it, and the cards all stay put nothing falls out.To get to a card when you want it, simply push down on the top card and slide it partially out. There is a satisfying “click” to acknowledge the lock, and the cards are now firmly in place.
Once everything is in place, slide them all back into place like you would put a deck of cards back into its box. This opens the “mouth” of the DM1, and makes it very easy to add new cards. Once one card is in place, push it down with your thumb and then slide it out part way. Even though the titanium version was so much more expensive than the aluminum one, I’m a sucker for anything with metallurgical superiority, so I ponied up the extra cash for the 12-card titanium model, and also got the titanium money clip.Getting the cards into the DM1 was straightforward.
(Although I must admit that the large one previously mentioned has held up reasonably well.)Enter the Decadent Minimalist DM1. You know what? I’ve noticed that I really don’t have to put many of those cards back into my wallet once I get back home, because I don’t use them that often.So this began my journey to investigate alternative wallet strategies that were more compact and, ideally, would last longer than the leather wallets I’ve gone through. The rest go into the top drawer of my nightstand. While that’s probably good from a pickpocketing perspective, it makes it difficult to deploy when you need it.Lately when I’ve been traveling internationally, I empty the wallet of most things that I don’t anticipate using on the trip, and pare it down to the bare essentials. It takes a lot of precision maneuvers to extract the wallet from the back pocket with those pants. It’s actually worked fairly well for the past 3 or 4 years that I’ve had it, although it’s a struggle if I’m wearing one of my suits, as those pants BARELY fit that large wallet. I could also slide several business cards into the two-compartment cash area. My last (conventional) wallet was a large, leather trifold wallet that held quite large quantities of credit cards and other assorted cards, cash, and had a window for a driver’s license. My last (conventional) wallet was a large, leather trifold wallet that held quite large quantities of credit cards and other as.
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