- [Adam] I’ve been answering the same question
a few times.
People ask what wallet do I use personally.
I’ve unboxed and reviewed lots
of the most popular minimalist wallets
over nearly six years,
and my everyday carry wallet
is a Pularys Hobby wallet.
Why do I use the Hobby Wallet
when I have so many others?
I’ll reveal its secrets,
and tell you what they cost.
I got Pularys to donate
a few more Hobby wallet variants for this video,
with three progressively increased quality leather types.
You won’t believe how much these wallets cost.
They’re cutesy, versatile,
and offer amazing user-experience.
Just a little bigger in their perimeter
than a credit card.
It means I don’t need a dedicated pocket
just for my wallet.
I can get the Hobby wallet,
my house keys,
and car keys all in one jeans pocket.
First, one of the Italia leather Hobby wallets.
Made in-house with soft Italia leather, in Europe,
at Pularys’ own long-established factory.
The leather is super-supple,
and kinda stretchy.
When I first reviewed one of these
I was a bit silly and squished legos
and random stuff in here, and it likes that.
It’s very forgiving due to the soft leather.
Of course, you’re supposed to put cards in this part.
Upto eight, I say, around four or less
for the best user-experience.
With that many inserted,
you can pinch the sides,
making room for your pinkies
to grab the cards.
That’s very fast at the checkout,
and the double-snap fasteners
prevent cards falling out.
Sure, I could use one of my many
pop-up eject wallets.
But I feel silly doing this in public.
Perhaps a carbon fibre
or aluminium card holder?
Imagine how fed up you’d be
if you were the next person in line
waiting to pay for your stuff,
watching me wrestle a card
from this sandwich arrangement,
or trying to push some cash under this clip.
The Hobby wallet gives me a minimalist wallet
that’s useable in the real world.
Put cash, or whatever you want
in this second compartment.
I like its simplicity, and the fact
it doesn’t have predefined compartments,
or use-cases.
I can take a bunch of irregular items from my pockets
and squish ‘em in the Hobby wallet.
That’s what makes it so fantastic to live with!
You have to experience a Hobby wallet yourself,
and live with it for a day to understand.
You just won’t want to swap back to your old wallet.
At least, I didn’t.
This tiny pocket is for coins.
Who’s got coins?
Better for a spare key maybe.
The positioning of this fold
ensures you won’t loose what goes in this bit.
What does it cost?
Just $16, or 15 Euros
at the time of making the video, of course.
Remember that’s for Italia leather,
made in-house, in Europe, by a company
that have been producing leather goods since the 1930s.
Now imagine instead what 16 bucks
would buy you from the usual online marketplaces.
I also got you a 10% discount code,
active at the time of making the video.
If you use the code or affiliate link
in the video description
I can earn a small fee
at no extra cost to you.
Next, this one is my own Hobby wallet.
This is from Pularys’ Insider line,
which is a higher quality leather.
Pularys sent me this one for free,
around September 2022 for me to review,
which I did.
I’ve been using this Hobby wallet ever since.
By the way,
I didn’t pay for any of the Pularys wallets in this video.
But that doesn’t influence my opinion,
I’ve reviewed lots of wallets
that brands have sent to me for free,
but this is the wallet I chose to use myself, everyday.
The Insider line Hobby wallets
are made from vegetable-tanned Nomad leather.
The Insider line can be purchased with or without
a pocket for an Apple AirTag.
I wanted to show you one of the other colors.
I have here the red Insider line Hobby wallet,
without AirTag pocket.
The vegetable-tanned Nomad leather
is a little stiffer and thicker.
1.4 mm versus 1mm
of the 16-bucks Italia leather Hobby wallet.
This insider line Hobby wallet
is $25 without AirTag pocket,
and $27 with, again,
correct at the time of making the video.
Now, going back to the Italia leather,
which costs less, this gives you the best
out-of-the-box user experience brand new,
because of the super-soft stretchy leather
that I tried my best to convey,
but you gotta get ahold of one yourself
to see what I mean.
They’re a really enjoyable,
tactile product to hold and operate.
In contrast, the Insider line,
with its Nomad leather,
become more supple the more you use it,
these instead look more premium,
and will patina, gaining character as they age,
and possibly last for decades.
What could break?
It’s mostly a folded one-piece construction.
Maybe a snap fastener could fail
after lots of years of use?
They feel heavy-duty,
but in any case,
any shoe-maker can drill one out and replace it.
Coming up, is the most premium,
saddle leather, Hobby Wallet.
But before that
let’s take a look at the AirTag pocket.
I have a third Insider line Hobby Wallet.
This one in black,
possibly the most popular color choice,
so I wanted to have the black to show you too.
The Pularys-branded snap fastener
secures your AirTag.
Of course, they’re not supplied with an AirTag.
As with all AirTag-holder wallets,
put it in logo-side-down
if you if want the beeper to be louder.
I prefer to look at the Apple logo.
Every Hobby wallet variant
comes with an RFID blocking card,
which helps protect against
any unauthorized scanning of your chip cards.
A must-have.
To be true to my video title- that is,
showing you my everyday carry,
I’ll admit, I don’t use this.
I use a slightly thicker jammer,
In my tests I found a jammer to be more effective
from a slightly greater range.
But the card blocker Pularys ship with the wallet
is the correct tool for the job.
It’s thinner, and easily protects four cards
either side of it, when placed in the middle of the pack.
Check the video description
if you want to learn more
about RFID blockers or jammers.
Now the Saddle leather Hobby wallet.
A specially-treated vegetable-tanned,
vintage saddle leather.
Pularys describe it’s treated with wax
and heated in presses
to create an aged and patina effect.
That patina will exaggerate at it ages,
developing a unique finish
over time as it discolors,
stains and scratches.
All the more reason to push it
in your pocket with other items.
Instead of being fearful of scratching it,
you welcome it.
I hoped it would be a little more rough
and matt finished.
Out the box, it feels a little over processed,
like it has a little too much sheen.
So, I think my favorite would be…
Oh yeh, 30 bucks for the saddle leather,
at time of making the video.
I think my pick of the bunch would be
either the Italia leather in black,
for that extra-soft leather,
or the black Nomad leather,
which looks a little more grown-up,
but will be a tad stiffer when new.