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Make A Paper "Throwaway Wallet"

by Willy Volk (RSS feed) on Apr 27th 2007 at 10:11AM

Some people like to travel with a throwaway wallet, so that if they're mugged, they can give the mugger something and escape quickly without losing all their cash and valuables. Why spend money on a pleather throwaway wallet, when you can make one for free?

Instructables has an excellent 8-step how-to on making a paper wallet. Capable of holding "tons of cash, 4 easily accessible credit cards, and 2-4 more 'locked' credit cards," a paper wallet also has the obvious advantage on being scribble-on-able, so you can easily jot down directions to the hotel, the phone number for the cab company, or an address.

Following the instructions, I just made my own paper wallet in about 5 minutes. Now, I'm going to stuff it full of all my paper money.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Randy Apr 27th 2007 7:52PM

Hi,

If you like the paper wallet, come check out all of the other wallets from our DIY Wallet Challenge:

href="http://www.instructables.com/group/walletchallenge/?show=instructables&sort=PUBLISHED&limit=500"

Also, we are giving away a laser cutter. I know you can't travel with a laser cutter, but you can sure make luggage tags. You may want to check that out here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/E1DESIMF0H63N2Z/

Best Regards,
Randy
(on behalf of the Instructables team)

Ryan May 8th 2007 5:31PM

I'm with you. I really liked that instructables post and made a paper wallet right away. I decided I wanted it to be a little more personal though so I made a pdf generator that allows you to upload pictures and input text on any face of the wallet - soon it'll allow for barcodes as well (so you can put your shopper's club codes on there).

http://ipapercraft.com/credit-card-cash-wallet/

Anyway, I thought you'd enjoy it.
Ryan

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