I have a wallet that has a small coin compartment with a zipper. On occasion it gets a bit too full, but the uncomfortable bulge is a quick reminder to dump the excess change at the next opportunity. It has worked well for me for years. I’m faced with the sad task of finding a similar replacement for it in the next year or four. I also wrap the wallet in a handkerchief, then with a few large rubber bands. This makes it harder for a pickpocket to simply slide the wallet out of my back pocket, but this is not a common practice amongst men as I understand it, and does make leaving a checkout counter a bit slower.
For extras, I’ve in recent years taken to wearing a fanny pack. Yes, I realise that this is much like a man purse, but what the hell. I also wear a cheap metal spring-loaded loop clip (you know what I mean, because they are everywhere) on my belt, to which is attached a nice dog collar from the dollar store, the other end of which in turn is attached to a clip on the fanny pack, to make a bit harder for the fanny pack to just fall off unnoticed from a broken plastic connector. The dog collar jingles, naturally. I may replace it with a noiseless looped polyester cord for that reason, one of these days. In the fanny pack, I keep such items as a small bottle of alcohol-based hand disinfectant, a roll of quarters in a plastic quarter container of the sort found at coin collector stores, paper towels, a calculator, etc. This all probably makes me look like a dork to the suave set, but I never did much care what idiots think of me with which to begin.
