You must be old if you have a purse or a wallet.

luluaugust

Oh dear I have bought a purse for one the GDs as it had a Tudor embroidered design as she is doing a course on them at the moment.
I use a purse as otherwise coins would be all over my bag. Are bags only for the elderly next

I am sure she will love it 😊

Dylis

Just bought myself a beautiful Radley purse I have been admiring for a long time. I hate that owning one is now classed as old!

Is it heck! I love shopping for a new purse, my mum usually buys it for me, as it’s deemed unlucky to buy your own purse. Also she puts a bit of silver in the coin bit, for good luck.
I will buy hers. Just something we have always done.

Oh dear I have bought a purse for one the GDs as it had a Tudor embroidered design as she is doing a course on them at the moment.
I use a purse as otherwise coins would be all over my bag. Are bags only for the elderly next

BlueBelle

MT60 not just medication Boots take all empty beauty products, hairspray, creams, toothpastes etc etc into their schemes tubs
I save all mine and give to my grandaughter to take and get a little windfall
And yes I am very, very old as I still carry a purse with my money, bank cards, store cards, bus pass, etc in

Oh thanks blue bell. Will look into that.
Yes me too. I need my bag for pain killers, tissues & small hair brush. I’d be lost without it.

His account not is🤦‍♀️

grandMattie

I have purse, wallet, card, but don’t have the payment app on my smart phone.
It’s so much harder for children to learn to budget if they don’t have real, actual cash in their hot little hands!

I have been teaching our grandchild concept of physical cash. So if I am transferring money into is account, I want them to know what ten, twenty pounds look like & what it’s worth by what they can buy.
At least now they know what I am giving without seeing the cash now.
At least now they have good healthy bank account that most adults would envy.

I don’t carry a purse or wallet any more, but I do carry two card holders - one for debit/credit cards, one for bus pass and membership cards. Though some of those are in the phone ‘wallet’ now - the British Museum and David Lloyd ones. Nat Trust and Kew are still actual cards.

I absolutely detest all the ideas that everything must be done on a phone, so I'm definitely an oldie - 61!

I have a debit card but only use it for the odd online purchase, but I always have that and cash in my physical purse, along with a Spar reward card and various other things in the card sections and the back for money notes, etc.

I love my purse, pink and brown. I'vehad it for years, bought from The Cat Gallery in York, got loads of cats on the front. It was about £45.00 and still going strong!

... cross-body bag

I have a purse with cards and some cash in. It lives deep in my cross body with my phone. I use my Apple watch for all payments and have recently started using it for getting instructions and a simple map when finding unfamiliar destinations on foot.
It feels much safer than carrying a phone.

Old and proud!

I work in retail and have noticed more people using cash . This is probably to help budget but I am surprised to see them rooting about in the bottom of their bag to find the cash . I never associated the lack of a purse with phone useage.

I have a cross body leather bag which I love and use it all the time. It contains a small purse with 20.00 plus a few coins and a card holder with my credit card and store loyalty cards.
Also a small comb, tissues, lipstick and a couple of plasters.

I only need to look in my mirror to know I am old, not in my handbag. Do I care? Not that much. Although I did care when looking in an MS changing room mirror at aged body. I blame the mirrors and lighting!,

Mollygo

I have a purse with cash in it, so I’m old. . .

If I get rid of it, will I stop being old?

If you try it then please let us know if it works.

I had to buy a new purse recently as my existing one’s zip broke.

Years ago we had a shop in town that sold such things and always got my purses there, but long gone.

Ended up getting a cheap one from a clothes shop, hate having a fresh one, but am getting used to it.

Rarely use a handbag, just have my purse (with cards) in my little hessian shopping bag.

I have purse, wallet, card, but don’t have the payment app on my smart phone.
It’s so much harder for children to learn to budget if they don’t have real, actual cash in their hot little hands!

I’m definitely old then. I have a purse which contains money, my ID card and driving licence, also have a small purse which I keep 1 and 2 euro coins in. Useful for when the grandchildren want to go on those money-in-the-slot rides. My credit cards are in a separate little card holder. I loathe using my phone to pay for things and rarely do so.

A great nephew berated me, once upon a time, for using cash and not having "a card, like Mum has. She can spend as much as she wants with one of them".

He definitely needs an urgent crash course in Debt Avoidance!

It's frightening the way youngsters have been allowed to sleepwalk into believing that a credit card really is the fabled Magic Money Tree.

I don’t put any cash cards on my phone in case I lose it. Also a phone can be tapped into but a wallet or card holder can't. I actually use one of those card holders that block anyone trying to copy anything rather than a purse or wallet. It holds about 20 or so cards so quite useful, zips up. You can get them online.

I carry my credit/debit cards in an inside pocket in my handbag so away from my purse. My purse contains cash and store loyalty cards. An outside zipped pocket contains my bus pass and door keys. This way if I lose my purse I still have the means to travel and pay for anything if need be. It’s a little trouble if you want to keep changing bags but much safer than holding everything in one place and as I have lost a purse before now I know it can happen.

Mollygo

I have a purse with cash in it, so I’m old. . .

If I get rid of it, will I stop being old?

I too have a purse with cash in it, along with bank cards, M&S free drinks vouchers, a couple of loyalty cards I haven't yet put in my phone wallet, and an assortment of other bits and pieces. If that makes me old and decrepit so be it. I loved being in Canada recently, cash was accepted as normally as card transactions, not a comment or raised eyebrow. My Radley purses are fun designs and well made, and I don't have to panic if my phone has a poor signal or a low battery.
Even if getting rid of my purse made me 'down with the kids' I'd still say 'no thanks'

I have a purse with cash in it, so I’m old. . .

If I get rid of it, will I stop being old?

I have a purse with cards in, no cash, I am very wary of having banking apps or cards on my phone, banking apps are on my iPad which is always at home. My purse is bright pink also Georgesgran and my DH also bought it for me a few Christmases ago.

I’ve thought for a long time that it’s sensible to have a fairly small amount of cash around for the reasons already given. I reckon about £200 would be enough for a big supermarket shop as well as filling up both of our cars.

It would only take an internet cyber attack to render cards and phones useless.

I am elderly. I carry a cash/card wallet in my pocket. No phone.

If others are dismayed, so be it.