Poll: Men with purses

[Brutal Peanut]

I always thought messenger bags were just big versions of long-strapped purses and I see men and women with those. Who cares? It's just a bag to keep your stuff in. Then again, I don't even use a purse and I'm a woman. I have them though. I have them because the other women in my family keep thinking that if they just gift me the right one, I'll suddenly love purses and use them. Poor fools,...eh, it's their money and the gifts are a nice gesture; I just don't want any more of the damn things. >_>

 

[Fluffythepoo]

so everyone in your town goes to the bar with a handful of coins?

No, try reading what I wrote. Preferably without injecting "unnecessarily smug" into the response.

Also when i use the laundromat i get change from them, and then they get the change back from the machines.. it would seem silly to walk around with quarters when you know full well the laundromat already has enough quarters.

Not all laundromats (especially laundromats in apartment complexes) have change machines, you know.

They pay with paper money? As in not coins. As in how was what you said relevant in anyway to me ripping on coins?

and you get a roll of quarters and leave it in the apartment.. either way way making walking around with quarters silly

and why do you get to make condescending remarks but i dont get to make smug remarks? this seems like a very uneven playing field

 

[geK0]

As far as the cash vs plastic argument goes (not going to bother quoting everyone who's mentioned it)

-Not all businesses accept debit/credit

-Most banks charge transaction fees for using debit (where I'm from anyway)

-Although it's easy to go online and see where my money is going on my bank's website, it's also quite easy to loose track of how much money I've spent while I'm out; taking out cash ensures that I don't absent-mindedly overspend. (it's like a self-imposed allowance)

-I just prefer exchanging tangible, physical money to electronic money.

-It's easier to use vending machines if I want to

-It's much easier to give tips with cash (I'm generous like that)

-It's impossible to lend a friend a few bucks for bus fare (or something) with plastic (again, I'm generous like that)

-I like the jingling noise coins make : D


And for the "get a wallet with a coin compartment" argument

-The wallets in stores I've been to have small coin compartments, I haven't seen one with a sufficiently sized coin compartment yet.

-I'm Canadian, I don't have $1 bills, but "loonies" and "toonies", so I have more coins than you American commenters

-Wallets tend to get pretty bulky when they contain coins, it's easier to have them in a separate pouch I find.

-The nice looking leather wallets (the ones I prefer because they look better and I find they're more durable than other wallets) tend to not have coin compartments.

-I can get a coin pouch for just over a dollar (yay for dollar stores), so it's better for me to just get one of those than it is for me to replace my entire wallet (a fairly good looking leather one)





btw, nice to see you back Katori

 

[Judgment90]

I used a shoulder bag throughout my Middle, High, and most of my college years as a bookbag.

Not once have I been branded something negative for it. Although, being big, somewhat imposing, having a bad reputation in middle school, and having connections doesn't hurt.

 

[Flames66]

so everyone in your town goes to the bar with a handful of coins? how is that not hilarious? xD some big macho guy pouring out his change on to the counter so he can slowly count everything out or rummaging through his little coin purse to get out the exact change

Yes we do and it is not particularly funny, just how things are done.

and its not that i imagine myself as superior; its that i know electronic technology is superior. also how is using a 3 thousand year old money transfer system (1200-ish for paper) thinking outside the box? it seems more like being terrified of leaving the box

I don't get this idea of "the way I do things is best and I will mock anyone who does anything different", it just seams unnecessarily obnoxious to me. I will continue to do things the way I prefer with no regard for what you think of it.

 

[Jfswift]

Isn't that essentially what a satchel is? A "man purse" if you will. Also, I use those little rubber coin holders sometimes if I need to hold a lot of change.

 

[NoWayJose]

I admitted long ago that the backpack that never leaves my side is my manpurse. I'll say as such to anyone and it doesn't occur to me to be ashamed or fear the judgement of those I tell. Everyone so far has just laughed it off anyway so it's never been a problem. It's not a purse in the strict definition but it serves a similar purpose so I don't avoid the term. That said, I have a separate wallet and the contents of my pack are usually manly stuff like Swiss Army knife, condom, phone charger, umbrella, mouthwash, deodorant, lipchap, etc. You know. The essentials.