-500 indie points

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I’ve had my current wallet for, like, the past six years or so. From around 6th grade. One of my best friends had given it to me because he got two for free on a plane or something. Mine was blue and his was red. It has this grey line pattern on it, like speech bubbles, kind of. The seams, or whatever, are all very worn, and for the coin pouch thing I tried to stitch it together but I ended up never really using it and just stuffed the coins into the bill pocket, which I occasionally had to shake up a bit because the coins would get in the folds and it wouldn’t fold. The place where you can keep a card under a clear plastic thing has been imprinted with three years wroth of unattractive school ID photos. I’ve kept a bunch of stuff in the other pockets and crevices, like my school season pass for games and stuff that I’ve literally never used, but I won it from some library raffle thing. Or my “Blaine’s Arcanine” holographic Pokémon card. Or some really old Simpsons card things. Or my Subway ticket from Boston. A lot of them got ruined when my jeans went in the wash once with the wallet inside. My iPod suffered injuries as well. I’ve always liked that the wallet was velcro, because it was always kind of childish; the whole wallet’s kind of childish. I liked how it would make that obnoxious noise of “hold on I’m getting money out.” I also really liked the aesthetics of it, and I rarely like aesthetics. I’ve started to keep receipts in it. You can see the strands of white thread from my attempts at fixing it; I did some stitching patterns once in a grade when such things weren’t gay. But the aesthetics, it’s blue and from some kind of fiber or something and like I mentioned the gray lines and designs. And the outline is this cool little white-black lines thing. The inside is black and so are the velcro parts. I really like it. And it even fits with my Hogwarts house, Ravenclaw!

Anyway, I probably won’t use it anymore soon, and instead use this boring grown-ups’ leather wallet we have which is probably infinitely less appealing and interesting and doesn’t have any kind of story behind it and the “Genuine Leather” text imprinted on the inside almost looks like it’s in Papyrus, which sucks, I guess, I don’t really know.