Is It Time For A Man-Purse?

The bulge in my wallet is so big, I cannot stuff it into my back pocket.

The sad part is that I only have 8 bucks there.

I have so much stuff to carry around, that my wallet is no longer getting the job done. I finally spent a few minutes taking inventory of my wallet and found:

• Mastercard
• ATM Card
• 7 restaurant loyalty cards (you give it to the cashier each time you eat there, earn points and eventually get free meals). These used to be paper-weight - but now a days are plastic.
• Health insurance card
• Dental card
• Lab work card
• 3 Starbucks gift cards (each with about 2 bucks left on them because I grab a different one whenever I find myself in Starbucks)
• 3 Call-ahead dining cards (with phone number, so I can call ahead and get a seating time at one of our trendy chain restaurants)
• Sam's Club card from 2004 (okay - I finally parted with that one)
• Best Buy Rewards Card (loyalty card that get points when you buy stuff)
• Oil change VIP club card (have no idea)
• 3 frequent flyer cards (which I never even remember to use - instead the poor ticket person has to look up my number ...)
• 1 Barnes and Nobles Gift Card (Xmas gift - still waiting for the right time to use)
• 1 Borders Gift Card (xmas present from last year - probably lost 15% for not using it yet)
• 8 WKTI business cards (in bad shape after being stuffed in there with all of that plastic)
• 3 Supermarket club cards (Is Kohl's Food Emporium still around?)
• Driver's license
• Novelty driver's licence they give you when your kid is born (license to charm with the kid's photo - funny I only have one for the first kid...)
• Proof of auto insurance
• 1 photo of kids (believe it or not - from this year...)
• 1 photo of wife and kids
• Journal Broadcast Group Photo ID (photo actually worse than driver's license)
• 8 dollars (1-Five, 3 - Ones)

What am I supposed to ditch? I thought about leaving all of the restaurant loyalty cards back at the office. But face it: fast food is an impulse buy. Nobody my age plans on grabbing a burrito at the drive-thru. It just happens.

Even with the few obvious things I lost - my wallet is bulging. What if I ever did have any money to put in there? I laugh about the man purse ... but society may be pushing us there with loyalty cards, ID's and everything else.

Maybe I'll call it my business organizer ...