What’s the simplest, cheapest man purse available? An Altoids tin, of course. It’s available in upscale convenience stores everywhere, if you factor in mint value it costs next to nothing, and though it doesn’t hold much, it’s small enough you can keep it in your pocket. Does that make it a wallet? You can call it that, but if it holds things that jiggle — like, say, a coin purse — we think it’d be proper to call it a purse.

We hope you won’t be tempted to dress it up. But a few alterations might make one work better for you. Then stuff it with your ID and credit cards, camera, or MP3 player.

• Altoids purse news [Dollheads.com]
• Altoid tin wallet [n3w4nd1mpr0v3d on Geocities]
• My wallet [drewish on flickr]
• Optio S [The Luminous Landscape]
• Minty MP3 [News.com]

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