Assuming you’re old enough to remember shopping malls, do you remember the little Asian store that every mall had? You know, the one that sold every part of the Hello Kitty / Pokemon / Anime empire. Poketo is like that except without all the kitschy shit you’ll never use. Wallets, watches, cameras, t-shirts, and wall decals from international artists with awesome ideas. There really is something for everyone.
Poketo may very well be giving away the farm on this one because they sent us 4 wallets, a t-shirt, and some wall decals to give away to four lucky readers. One Grand Prize Winner (cue the band) is getting a wallet, the t-shirt, and the decals. Three slightly less grand prize winners are each getting a wallet.
You don’t even have to come on down, all you have to do is leave a comment below telling us the weirdest thing you keep in your wallet.
We’ll pick a winner 9/3. Good Luck.
Carl – Wallet
Anne Banks – Wallet
Bobbi Fowler – Wallet
Rob Weiner – Wallet + T Shirt + Wall Decals
Thanks for participating.
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a picture of a south pacific asian kids that i found in maxim few years ago. good way to start up conversation wit the ladies. i tell them theyre my cousins.
I have a “Blackbelt card” from when I was 10. I am 25 and still use it to pick up chicks
A picture of the giant Buddha that my dad brought back from China. (Crowd goes awww)
Weirdest thing is I still have the cardboard “faux” credit cards the wallet came with. Gives it more panache!
The strangest thing I keep in my wallet its not really all that weird, its a paperclip.
The reason I keep the paperclip?
Because I have MacGyveresque delusions of someday using said paperclip to pick a lock, diffuse a bomb, save a kitten or something of the sort.
a piece of chewed gum from ex girlfriend.
I keep two really strange things. A lucky (and ragged) guitar pick from the first show I played with my band, and a piece of broken wall from the first house I went into as a firefighter.
I have a really old, faded, falling apart love message from my wife tucked in the secret pocket of the wallet
I have a “get out of jail free” card from monopoly for when I get pulled over by a cop. Gets a good laugh out of them.
My baby teeth.
I still have the ticket of the movie my boyfriend took me to on our very first date..
I always carry a toothpick and my lucky charms one of which is a real dried 4 leaf clover.
The weirdest thing in my wallet is definitely the lip gloss. Not so weird right? Well, I never wear it – like never ever. And it’s just asking to explode and ruin my very nice, expensive wallet. That’s weird
Hmmm, my Buy 9 Bobas, Get One Free card?
I have randomly in my wallet a 1000 dollar korean bill from when I stopped at a Korean airport.
A dead flower my friend gave to me before she left to Nebraska and I have never seen her since.
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A picture of 17-year-old self in Little Tokyo, LA. I can explain…my friend gave me this wallet for my 18th birthday because I lost my wallet the year before. It came complete with pictures of me and my friends, a little happy birthday note, and $2.50 to replace the money inside my lost wallet. The pictures and note are still stored in the same pockets.
Always loved these wallets. I keep a very minimal wallet now, so nothing weird in it. I used to keep a photoshopped version of my expired lifeguard certificate to try to impress chicks
I used to keep an old arrowhead in my wallet to keep me grounded and remind me of what was important.
sometimes, if I have it, I keep cash in my wallet. weird.
Until just recently I carried around for years a little tiny plastic bag with bread crumbs because when I was like 8 I was convinced that one day I would be lost in a jungle and have to eat bread crumbs to survive. Turns out I never had to.
I have backup Pepcid AC because I get asian-glow when I drink and it works like a charm! Fellow asians, I know you know what I’m talkin’ bout hahah!
I have a tag from a pencil case that my mother gave me when I was 10. Its a Quiksilver tag, with a surfer on it… everytime I looke at it, I feel a lot cooler hehehehe
I carry a needle/thread with me at ALL times.
I am very paranoid of any piece of my clothes ripping.
I have a Magikarp pokemon that I randomly put in my wallet when I was little and i’ve carried it with me through 4 wallets just because I got used to having it
I use a cigarette case as a wallet. I have an old sticker with a picture of a police officer on it that says “I’m in control of me.”
p.s. do i have to be a dude in order to win?
I have a part of the ticket to Taj Mahal temple in the secret compartment of my wallet, which I keep for great memories about India, people I met there and good times.
I have it since 1999.
I carry around a small chain that is an eye. My dad bought this for me when I was 10.
Uh. A picture of my friend and his date from prom? Not very strange.
I have a star trek card (with Spock on it) with a piece of a broken record taped to it with pink duct tape. My best friend in high school gave it to me and I never got rid of it.
i keep many odd pieces of things in my wallet.in addition to one friend’s written plea to be my +1 to eddie izzard last year,the weirdest memento in my wallet is an almond.a friend dropped one in class,and rather than discard it,colored it with a highlighter,carved a mouth with her mechanical pencil tip,and gave him sharpie slant eyes.he resembles 50′s era depictions of aliens.we named him q-burt and he continues to live in my zipper pouch to this day.
I have a picture of my two year old daughter wearing a boba fett helmet.
A dead flower my friend gave to me before she left to Nebraska . I haven’t seen her since.
a very old lollipop stick. just the stick.
A “omikuji” (similar to a fortune-telling card/piece of paper) from a visit to a shrine when I was visiting Kyoto… It tells me I’ll have good luck for love, so ha.
Oh, and my 3 cards from the Gackt fan club… I really don’t need to carry all 3 but I still do.
a wendy’s napkin that my sister drew on. she drew a map of the streets so i could learn the names and then she added all the fast food places that had coke plus 7-elevens. i’ve had it in my wallet for almost 5 years now
my hot pink business cards
a pirate eyepatch, three leaves, ten english pounds, two plastic chips from a party I never went to (they both got you one drink) and a 1 euro cent coin, just for luck (along with all the other stuff I actually need
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The top of a Marlboro packet with the “M” ripped out and arranged to spell “aMor”.
the picture of my favorite pokemon, a dried four leaf clover (that i genuinely found) and a fourtune cookie thing telling me that karma is a powerfull force.
Cash. Seriously, do you know how rare that is?
I have a small card that contains several passwords (some fake others encrypted, in case my wallet falls into the wrong hands) I’m paranoid about my safety (not that I have anything to hide….*shifty eyes*) Oh and I also have a Charizard, but someone here might already have said that
A little voodoo doll in the coin pocket, a pirate license, a shrinky dink of James Whistler’s painting Falling Rocket I made in AP art history class: take your pick on what’s weirdest.
5 Ghana cedi (GH₵)that I once found in a wallet on the bus.
I guess the person who lost his wallet was from Ghana.
BTW I don’t live in Afrika
the weirdest thing i have in my wallet i guess is a toothpick…you never know when you might have some lettuce stuck in your two front teeth.
I keep money in my wallet – because having money now days instead of credit cards is a bit weird. I also have my ipod headphones in my wallet.
A picture of Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear) because it made me laugh when I looked into his crinkled face and I don’t even watch it!
the fortunes I like from fortune cookies
I have a little note that has “say thank you” written on it. It’s for when I’m out with friends when the bill comes and I don’t have cash, which is most of the time. Mitch Hedberg FTW.
Pubes.
expired student card (still gets me discounts!)
I made some wishkraft 2 a guy I like so I till have that “charm” in my wallet, its a cross made of cinnamon with both mine n his name writen with red ink n tied with a red piece of yarn
A four leaf clover from Ireland
Actually it very common – I ahve a WindowsXP license, just in case I need it someday.
The weirdest things I’ve kept in my wallet are: old movie tickets (I guess that’s not that weird…), flattened out Dove chocolate aluminum foil, earrings, and fortunes from fortune cookies!
3 sacagawea gold dollar coins
I was admitted to the hospital for 6 days some time ago. Early on in my admission process, I needed an MRI to confirm or deny the presence of blood on my brain. I had a right cartilage piercing and I had recently pierced my left with an industrial piercing- a bar that goes from one part of the cartilage to the other. Taking out that sonofabitch when it was just starting to heal REALLY sucked.
I keep my bloody facial piercings stuck between two layers of medical tape in the wallet I carry with me every day. I haven’t looked at them since I had to yank them out- but it’s a damn good reminder as to why I hope to never have a meningitis scare again.
Remember, kids: Only YOU can prevent dangerous communicable diseases!
The weirdest thing in my wallet is kinda sweet too. I have the paper ring from a Gurkha cigar. My husband showed it to me just before he deployed the first time, so I would know what kind to send him down range. That was almost 3 yrs ago now, and he is currently deployed again, but I no longer need the ring to remember what to buy him. It has been switched over to many wallets, and I don’t know why, other than it makes me smile when I happen across it.
My grandma collects the state quarters and asked me, several years ago, to find her a certain amount of those she still needed to complete the set. I made a list and folded it up and put it in my wallet. It’s been in there for about 3 years; I’m almost done!
a braided strand of hair that I cut from my first boyfriend’s hair when I met him in Germany when we were 13 years old.
Wonder what he’s doing now that we’re 27!
I keep a get out of jail free card from an old monopoly set, prom pictures of three couples I don’t know, and a Chinese holographic dark garados pokemon card.
A barely readable lotto ticket I got from a pocket of a pants I bought in an off shop
The weirdest thing I keep in my wallet is a drawing of a snail my friend made for me using highlighters. She made it when I moved to a different city for university 5 years ago and even though we don’t talk anymore, I won’t throw it out.
All my friends tell me how weird i am for keeping duck sauce i got from wok. i used to keep a taco bell hot sauce but when i sat on the packet it imploded.
I keep a picture of Richard Nixon in my wallet, cause you always need to have a tricky dick handy to impress the ladies.
A picture of what my wallet looked like 15 years ago.
I try to always keep Xanax in my wallet.
a safety pin
The strangest item in my wallet is a picture of an ex mother-in-law, helps me stay single now.
Bacon.
I had a friend named Jimmy.
Jimmy used to laugh at me.
Jimmy used to talk a lot.
I stole Jimmy’s lips and kept them in my wallet.
Jimmy doesn’t laugh anymore.
a one dollar bill folded into an origami tshirt!
A couple of toothpicks
A picture of a dog lying on a rug I clipped from a furniture catalog.
I have a first edition Thousand Dragon Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card. Yes, you read that right. I carry it everywhere I go. Why? I have no idea.
Weirdest thing in my wallet…
A random ATM receipt I found that showed a checking account balance of over $40,000. I ‘mistakenly’ take it out when I’m talking to a girl at a bar.
My grandmas toenail clippings………. gross? absolutley…… weird? The weirdest…….. I win….. now give me something cool
My dogs baby teeth
A wet nap from hooters that I got on my 21st birthday
the weirdest thing i carry in my wallet, is NOTHING!! but an empty wallet!
In my wallet:
Old Italian lire. Like it’s really useful, right? Ha.
I also keep random pieces of paper with mantras scribbled on them.
Weirdest thing is Cash. I don’t usually have that in my wallet.
A picture of someone else’s baby and someone else’s dog.
car key to a 1988 jeep cherokee
I have a business card that I got from an FBI agent that I met at a race track. Whenever I’ve ever got in a situation, I flash the card quickly and hope they don’t notice that there is no way im in the FBI. Its actually saved my butt a few times in bad situations.
Weirdest thing in my wallet is a membership card to Chamamo, a cat cafe in Harajuku (Japan). You pay the equivalent of like $5 for 30 minutes to play with cats except they mostly hide and sleep – disappointing.
…a note SUPER-GLUED around my credit card that says “Do NOT wipe me if your broke.” and a three-leaf clover. I figured since I’m highly impatient with trying to find a four-leaf. I’ll take my chances with 3/4 of a luck. [;
the key to my old hooch (room) in iraq… its weird that i still have that key, because your supposed to turn it in when u leave country…
LOL.
My weirdest thing? I keep a toe nail clipper in my wallet. I don’t have your average wallet though – just wanted to add some info so you guys won’t think I’m crazy or weird.
I keep a coin with St. Joan of Arc in my wallet. It actually has a prayer on the back asking for courage and strength! I bought it at Carmel-by-the-sea last year and have never taken it out of my wallet since then
The weirdest thing I keep in my wallet would be a picture of a wallet, it came with the wallet, its Japanese wallet and I thought it was so funny so I kept it.
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Weirdest thing in my wallet is Money, Cash or Coins, it is something that very rarely is in my wallet with EFTPOS available everywhere,
A picture of what my wallet looked like 30 years ago.
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My Jack Daniels ‘Tennessee Squire’ membership card.
It impresses the ladies (not) and it has gotten me out a a ‘bad situation’ a time or two…
…tom…
Those aren’t buoys!
A card for a free movie from a Drive-in(yes a drive-in!) movie theater that closed 10 years ago.
A drawing of Mickey Mouse done by my younger brother when he was about four…
I keep a list of baby names my wife and I can’t use due to our last name. My last name is Weiner. The list begins with Richard and Pierce, and ends with Lotta and Ivana, with many more in the middle.
The best “in bed” fortune cookie fortune:
“It’s better to aim at the moon than shoot into the well.”
I keep all the movie tickets I purchased in there.
a discount coupon for “neighborhood clients” of a supermarket in Rio, 800 km from my neighborhood. it been there for years now.
I sometimes carry the small piece of test paper that you spray perfume on to smell if you like it from Sephora. To make my wallet or coin case smell good.
Other than that…, I kept a tiny portrait of the girl I like back in high school that I cut off from the school magazine. Was it a weird thing to do so…?!
Girlfriend’s pubes. she thought I would like the cute surprise
I always keep a new bandaid in my wallet(Hello Kitty design to be exact). I’m such a klutz and injure myself quite often so it comes in real handy when needed.
Pretty cool stuff. I love those designs.
Money from different countries and not from mine!!!!
I have a dollar bill I’ll never spend. A good friend wrote “I love Jeremy” on it and drunkenly gave it to me…
The foreskin from when I was circumsized.
toothpicks and q-tips. YOU NEVER KNOW
I keep one of those sample pieces of soap they hand out on the street here in NYC. The reason being: It’s NYC…. every other block AND every other person smells like shit…. having a nice little piece of soap to smell makes everything a little more tolerable. I prefer lemon/citrus scents.
Sweet.
A coupon for almond milk.
I keep my great-grandmother’s locket of Saint Marry in my wallet. The funny thing is that I used to lose my wallet very often. Once I’ve put that locket into my wallet all the losing game stopped. And it’s been 10 years that I have the same wallet!
cool.
i keep a poem i wrote for the girl of my dreams that i never got to give her. and i also keep a royal flush as good luck.
I have a folded up poster of the first concert I ever went to because I go to shows all the time, but the first show I went to was where I met my lovely boyfriend <3 we've been together since then.
A year-long pass for the Eden Project, which I live 6 hours from
I have a “found at the beach” 9 of Diamons…my birth stone is “Diamonds” and my lucky number since I was 6 is “9″
I found a card just like this in Spain 9 days before my husband proposed to me…am I supersticious or what!
GREAT giveaway! THANKS.
Char.x
Monopoly “Get out of Jail Free” card
A piece of ‘trick’ gum. Hey, you never know when it might come in handy.
I always go to bookstores and stay there for literally hours to read books. sometimes, if i find something good, i rip the page out, stick it in my wallet, and put the book back on the shelf
I have these army photos they take right after boot camp to give to your relatives and friends, from two different people. Weird thing about them is, one is from my waiter named Walter at Denny’s, a 24/7 breakfast diner. He told my friends and I about how he just joined and we spent all night talking. In the end he gave us his number and photo, and to this day he sends me letters from Afghanistan.
The second is of a scary military geek I knew in high school. I met a mutual friend of ours at a gas station two years after we graduated, and he excitedly told me how he “won the bet, Harry became a a soldier, not a serial killer.” And gave me the photo as proof.
I have the remnants of a bus ticket from Monterrey, Mexico, from a trip a couple years back!
I have a backup Lactaid pill (I’m asian, of course I’m lactose intolerant. ), a pair of daily contact lenses even though my prescription has since become worse and exactly two staples because the coin pocket has ripped.
A McDonald’s business card that’s also good for a free value meal.
Spencer Tunick was recruiting volunteers for one of his installations, which consist of large group of nude people in urban landscapes. This one was to be on the George Washington Bridge in New York City. I was in college and my friend and I were going to go, but couldn’t deal with the 5 AM wake-up time. That was 12 years ago. I still have the little bookmark-sized recruiting ad (with a bunch of nudes on it) as a divider in my wallet.
I have a really big wallet. I keep a pair of dinosaur panties in them. No joke.
I have a couple of cards that were given to me that say “something you have just said or did offended the woman giving you this chemically threated card…your penis will fall off in 45 seconds”. I have not had the oppertunity to use one…yet.
I am surprised no one has mentioned their florescent condom or some such nonsense. Considering some peeps prob’ly been carrying the same one for years that would be pretty weird and useless.
5 euros
a certificate that verifies that whoever owns the walled has a specialization in awesomeness, thank you college professors!
I keep a raffle ticket that says “keep this coupon.” I’ve always been too afraid to throw it away.
someone else’s gym membership card
A library card.
Pfft! I know right?!
I could really use a place to store all these Canadian nickels.
A credit card shaped piece of metal with a hole in it… don’t remember where I got it…. I think it’s some kind of bottle opener… or perhaps a way to pick locks… I always forget its in there until I pass through a metal detector…
A donor codicil wich you can’t read anymore because the inkt is worn off, pretty usefull hehe..
I keep a length of dental floss in my wallet. I’ve been told I could get water stuck in my teeth because I tend to use it after eating just about anything.
i keep cab listings and cop business cards as well as a bail bondsman’s card just in case. but the weirdest things i have are a blue bead that i got in the girl scouts that signifies “1st year” and its just a memento and also i keep some id cards they sell at chuck.e cheese for 25 cents that have a picture and on the side it says “outer space explorer” or “movie star” of my friends.
I found a very small dead turtle and put it in a wallet i stopped using the same day. Needless to say I disposed of the wallet when I found it in my desk two weeks later
Call me crazy but I carry my first baby tooth on my wallet. Someone (I can’t remember who) said that I would bring me good luck.
The weirdest thing I keep in my wallet is a bill (aka dong) from Vietnam. I just love saying “wanna see my dong?”
The weirdest thing that has ever been in my wallet was a little piece of what seemed to be a metal, carved in the shape of a shark that turned out to be made of polonium, a very radioactive metal.
Posted this but don’t see it now, why?
I keep a lenght of dental floss in my walet. Almost seems as if I can get water stuck in my teeth so I always have some handy for after meals.
Oh NOW I see it!! Must be something wrong with my pc otherwise I never would have posted again. My bad.
I need those wall decals! My WALLS ARE COMPLETELY BLANK, MAN! No art work! No paint! NOTHING! I need something with style and personality, and I think these are it. Also, I’ve actually lost my wallet, so winning this would help with some of the damage that comes with paying for a new driver’s license and the hassle of getting a new debit card. PLEASE give this to me! I deserve it!
Now that I’m done begging, probably the weirdest thing I kept in my wallet was a bottle cap that I got when my friend Julia and I went out to this place called Pops. We traded flavors of soda, and I collected some of the bottle caps to remember the experience.
the wierdest thing i keep in my wallet is the land o’ lakes woman with a the butter box she holds cut so that when you roll the bottom up, her knees show from behind the butter box resembling her tatas!
A fridge magnet depicting the CowParade cow done all in crayons.
Contest Closed! Congrats to:
Carl – Wallet
Anne Banks – Wallet
Bobbi Fowler – Wallet
Rob Weiner – Wallet + T Shirt + Wall Decals
Thanks for participating.