Is the Ridge Wallet Aluminum Card Holder worth buying?

It’s a great wallet for the version of you that lives in a minimalist loft with four possessions — less great for the actual version of you with a Costco card. After going through more wallets than any reasonable person should, here’s the dad-honest summary: almost any of the top three will genuinely improve your daily life, and that’s not something I say about a lot of products on this blog. The Bellroy is the one I kept, the Ekster is the one Maisie thinks is coolest, and the Herschel is the one I’d give as a gift without overthinking it. Whatever you pick, do yourself a favor — before the new wallet arrives, sit down and actually audit what’s in your current one. I promise you have at least two cards you forgot existed and one receipt from 2022. If you’ve found a wallet that genuinely solved the too-many-cards problem, I’d love to hear about it in the comments — Maisie is already lobbying for a wallet with a built-in AirTag loop, so our search may not be over yet. As always: we have that at home, even when ’that’ is apparently eleven different loyalty punch cards for places we no longer visit.

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