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What Do People Carry in a Large Wallet?

At Allett Wallets, we are firm believers in ultra slim wallets that can fit comfortably in your front pocket. We have wallets of many different sizes, but it is our slim wallets that attract the most interest, because they are...

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How a Nice Wallet is Becoming “Affordable Luxury”

In some ways, luxury items are as popular as ever. Luxury brands like Chanel have been in such high demand that they’ve been able to increase their prices almost every year, becoming more and more expensive as people continue to...

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Places to Look if You Have Lost Your Wallet

Losing anything you need can be stressful. Losing your wallet is often even more so. Wallets contain so many important items that losing them – even in your own house – can feel immediately stressful.  Luckily, it’s likely you will...

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The Perfect Fit - Best Wallet Features for Slings/Smalls and Small Bags

If you’ve followed Allett’s blog for a while – and let’s face it, who hasn’t? – then you know by now that not all wallets are the same. Some wallets are big and bulky. Others are small and slim. Some...

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How to Clean a Fabric Wallet

At Allett, we made our vegan nylon wallets to move. This premium ripstop leather fabric is specifically designed to be taken with you as you hike, bike, camp, and travel the world. It is breathable and paper thin, despite being...

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What to Carry in Your Travel Wallet

Traveling is one of the most enriching experiences a person can do in their life. It introduces you to new cultures, new cuisines, new sights, sounds, smells, and so much more. But any time you’re in an unfamiliar place –...

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Lost and Found: Heartwarming Stories of Wallets Reunited With Their Owners

Wallets are a unique accessory. We do not typically think about how important they are or how much we depend on them. But the moment we lose that wallet, we feel almost helpless – not only because all of our...

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How To Gift The Right Wallet For Your Loved One

It’s the holiday season, and you’re being tasked with finding a gift for a loved one that they are going to love and appreciate. Every year you’re faced with this task, and after a while it can be really challenging...

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Why is it Important To Support Local and Small Businesses?

You’re going to hear a lot of small businesses talk about how important it is to support small businesses. We’re one of them. You’ll see signs and bumper stickers and all sorts of advertisement telling you to support small businesses...

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How to Make Your Wallet Gift More Personal

Wallets make amazing gifts. This is not a controversial statement, or one coming from our bias as a luxury wallet maker. When you think about what makes a great gift, you want it to be something that: Has genuine use,...

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Where is Napa Leather Used?

Allett makes wallets out of a material known as “Napa Leather.” Sometimes spelled “Nappa Leather,” the term itself refers to a tanning process that makes the leather both soft and breathable. It is neither rough, nor rigid, and typically free...

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How to Gift Like a Minimalist

We live in a world with an immense amount of waste. Most of us are consumers who consume – we buy things and throw things away or donate them at an alarming rate. While many of us do a lot...

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How Many Business Cards Should You Carry On You?

Typically, when we think about wallets, we think about money. We think about cards and we think about cash, we think about the ID we may need to use those cards, and everything else that we might put in our...

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Choosing a Wallet Based on Your Profession: Tips and Advice

Wallets are not just an accessory. More than belts, more than earrings, more than watches, our wallets provide both form AND function. We reach for our wallets frequently throughout the day, and we tend to keep our wallets for years,...

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Does a Magnetic Wallet Ruin Your Credit Cards?

Wallets may sound like a simple accessory. But the technology that goes into wallets can vary considerably. For example, some wallets and money clips use magnets to keep the wallet and its contents in place. There is this belief that...

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Wallet Organization for Digital Nomads: Staying Financially Savvy on the Move

One of the few positive changes of the last few years is the switch that many organizations have made to remote work. Many of us are now, more so than ever before, able to work from anywhere in the world...

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Wallets for College Students: Best Wallets for Combining Style with Functionality in Campus Life

Going to college comes with a lot of changes. For most, it’s their first time living on their own, their first time responsible for their own success, and their first time caring for themselves. Within these changes are smaller needs...

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The Psychology of Wallets – How Wallets Affect Your Personality

Picture this: You’re on a long walk and come across a small rock on the path. You kick the rock forward, and it bounces for a while and lands back on the path in front of you. You kick the...

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What to Carry in Your Passport Wallet

There is something truly amazing about traveling. You have an opportunity to get exposed to other cultures, other languages, and other ways of thinking. You can experience new foods, visit historical landmarks, and see the world in unique ways. Our...

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How to Make Gifting a Wallet Extra Special

Gift giving can, at times, feel stressful. You buy a gift hoping that it is received positively – hoping that the person feels genuinely happy to have opened up the package and found what’s inside. We also want that happiness...

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Where To Keep Coins When You Have a Minimalist Wallet

Minimalist wallets are not just the current trend. They are useful medically, in the sense that they reduce the likelihood of fat wallet syndrome. They are aesthetically pleasing, as they look better than other wallets and will not create an...

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How Much Cash Should You Carry in Your Wallet?

We don’t use cash very often anymore. We use debit cards, credit cards – and sometimes even our phones – to make the vast majority of our purchases. Many of us have even run into scenarios where a shopping aisle,...

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What Makes the Best Minimalist Wallet?

Designer wallets come in many different shapes and styles. These brand name wallets are a fashion statement far more than they are a wallet. But, when it comes to the duties of the wallet, many of them are largely impractical...

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International Business Card Etiquette for Business Travelers

Recently, we featured some examples of business card etiquette, and how people should store and exchange business cards to make the maximum impact and to be seen as respectful of the other person. There are many examples of ways that...

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Business Card Etiquette – When a Piece of Paper Makes an Impression

At Allett, we make wallets to fit all of your most important items. Although we make some of the world’s slimmest minimalist wallets, we also know that a wallet is only useful if you’re about to carry what you need...

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How to Organize Your Wallet in 5 Easy Steps

Wallets represent an organizational system that you carry on your person at all times. Unlike a backpack or even a purse, which occasionally you switch up or leave at home, most people use the same wallet each and every day,...

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What You Should NOT Put in Your Wallet

 Wallets are an accessory and a fashion statement. But at their core, they’re storage. They’re designed to hold IDs and financial items (cash, credit cards, etc.), and keep them with you at all times in a secure, easy to manage...

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Your Wallet: A Companion Through Major Life Events

Wallets are designed to be special. They’re designed to be kept. Choosing a wallet is supposed to be  like choosing a car – something that you drive as long as possible, creating loads of memories along the way. We know...

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Top 10 Must Have Wallet Features for ANY Wallet

There is no shortage of incredible wallets out there. From designer wallets to sport wallets to minimalist wallets, there are wallets of all shapes, sizes, and qualities to fit every pocket, every purse, and every bag.  But not all wallets...

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Spring Cleaning: Time to Eliminate the Excess in Your Wallet

At Allett, we specialize in high end minimalist wallets that can hold a lot of cards. Some of our most compact slim wallets still have plenty of space for as many as 12 cards, cash, and all those other wallet necessities. But just because you can carry these items does not necessarily mean you should. In honor of spring cleaning, maybe now is the time to start looking for ways to reduce the number of items in your wallet – and while you’re at it perhaps improve your financial wellness too!
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