I hate having a giant wallet. I fear the giant wallet. So I’ve always bought the smallest women’s wallet known to mankind. And then memorized my loyalty card numbers. Yes, I memorize them. That is in fact how much I want to avoid the ginormous wallet stuffed with gobs of rewards cards. You can imagine my excitement when I stumbled across the Card Cache. What a brilliant idea!

Here’s what you do: Round up all of your loyalty cards, program cards, member cards. Then carefully punch a hole in each and every one. If you’re anal, you’ll want to make certain you punch the hole in the identical place on each card. Then you just add them to the card cache and voila! All your cards are in one place, OUTSIDE of your wallet. You never have to worry about choosing which ones to keep in your wallet or not, you don’t have to worry about where you might have “misplaced” one. They’ll all be in the same place and it’s light so you can carry your cards in your purse all the time. Easy peasy! I wish I’d thought of that

This nifty little invention runs around $14 US, but if you’re looking for a simpler, cheaper solution, look no further than a metal ring that you can pick up at your local Staples or Office Depot. You could even simply tightly knot some pretty ribbon together. The possibilities are virtually endless; the idea – ingenious.