Jimi: The wallet for people who don’t want wallets


Wallets, wallets or purses, no matter what you call it, I have had a deep aversion to them for years. I can’t carry it cool in my back pocket, so I can’t sit, which may also be due to my lack of sitting flesh. And if you want to go out in the evening, I never know where to put it: If I have it in the back, it’s stolen from me, it looks stupid in the front, and apart from that it bothers me. Exactly for people like me, there is now the solution, and she calls herself Jimi.

The Jimi Wallet is not a normal wallet, but a nice little plastic box that has a compartment for banknotes and one for one or two cards, for example EC card and driver’s license. If you press on one side of the box, it opens, and you can also simply fold it up again. Supposedly, the shutter lasts 1 million times open and close. That would be more than 100 years (with opening and closing 20 times a day). Small change: No. Identity card: No. Customer cards: No. Fits well in one of the front pockets, where it’s hard to steal anything, and besides, the small box doesn’t get in the way. Ideal for going out in the evening, because that’s all you need. Also go into town for the afternoon. Or… Actually, you can almost always limit yourself, because do you always have to have 10 different loyalty and bonus cards, credit cards, receipts of your last purchases, etc. with you?

Nice idea. I would have liked to have had it earlier.

The last time


The powerbook_blog refers to such a day as today as the last day, and since he had such a day at the end of July, I had it today. The last time we unlocked the office, the last time we had lunch with my colleagues and then drank an espresso, the last time I pulled a Bionade out of the fridge, the last time… and then a strange feeling in your stomach when you leave the building for the last time and then remember what it was like when you first got there.

Right at the door…


… a Vorwerk representative rang the bell and asked me if my parents were there.

I’m 34 years old, already have some gray hair and would have thought that I was old enough to buy a Vorwerk vacuum cleaner. Apparently, however, I don’t belong to the target group.

My grandmother had been talked into a new Vorwerk every year, so that my mom “inherited” the old model. And these vacuum cleaners could survive for decades without any problems, nothing could destroy a Vorwerk Kobold. So I am quite positive about the Vorwerk brand. And right now we also needed a vacuum cleaner. What a pity.