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The number of gadgets and gizmos that have caught my eye and arrived in the post only to be remain completely unused, is quite frankly embarrassing, and a spectacular waste of natural resources.

The Jimi wallet, however has proved to be one of my best buys ever.

I am veteran wallet-loser. Not only that, but I also lose things like security cards, season tickets etc with embarrassing regularity. And, in my pre-jimi world my Wallet quickly became a three-inch thick wedge of receipts and general rubbish (wallet litter as they call it on the spy programmes).

So, one day I saw the Jimi on Gizmodo or Engadget..yes, of course I had to have it, but would this be another candidate for the gadget graveyard?

Here I am, five months in and I still haven’t lost it.

First it’s tied to my belt loops (a bit geeky but the benefits outweigh the lack of cool) so I dont’ put it down and forget where it is (used to do that all the time).

It’s also see through, so I can keep my season ticket on the outside, and security swipe cards (and Oyster cards) work from inside it…so everything is in one neat bundle..

Oh, and I’ve also stopped carrying quite so much crap around. Bit of cash, the cards I actually need (National Trust membership card? err, not really necessary today, thanks), and I can just squeeze in a few receipts, but they get offloaded quickly rather than carried around for a couple of years.

I realise that having written this, I will now probably lose it within a day..but so far, so good.