Yahoo Article on Things to NOT Keep in your Wallet

I enjoy looking around on Yahoo! for different articles and sometimes I will focus it more on finances. Luckily, Yahoo! does have a Finance section and even better, under that section is a Personal Finance Section. Anyone can find different articles on budgets, insurance, careers and work, college and more. One that caught my attention this morning was an article entitled "10 Things You Should Not Keep In Your Wallet" by Kathryn Tuggle.

At first glance, some of this seemed like "I should know this" kind of advice but I know I have been guilty of one thing - carrying my Social Security Card in my wallet. it wasn't until I was in college that a professor stressed not carrying it. She, and the article, explained how easy it would be for someone to use your social security number listed on the card to open credit cards in your name, get loans in your name and do all kinds of bad things that I know I do not want to happen to me. So, out of my wallet it came. I know to bring it with me when filling out employment forms or other things but as new rule for me, it is out of my wallet.

Another idea that I really had not thought of but seemed very appropriate was a non-password protected phone. Cell phones have gotten WAY advanced these days. I mean with the Apple iPhone, Android powered phones and Blackberry's, there are all kinds of apps that you can download that can give a person access to their bank accounts, Pay Pal accounts, even your rewards cards to different stores. Just imagine someone bad getting their little hands onto that information. Bye-bye funds in my savings account. That is definitely why I have not downloaded any apps on my phone that gives me greater access to my financial accounts. I will just stick to the computer or the local branch for account access thank you. Even with that, you can still have problems.

Another great tip was to not keep your USB device in your wallet. Now, my USB device cannot fit into my wallet but if you use yours for work related things, best not to leave it where someone can get it and then have fun with what may be on the device.

There are other tips that I could go on and talk about but please just go to the site and read the article too. In this day and age of easy access, try not to make it too easy for that information to get stolen.

The link to the article is: http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/113216/what-not-keep-in-wallet-foxbiz?mod=bb-budgeting

Jennifer