Wallet Archaeology

My wallet has been on its last overstuffed leg for a while now, but I only just found what I deemed to be a suitable replacement this week. This morning I undertook the task of transferring all of the cards and i.d.'s and random bits and pieces that are somehow considered important enough to be toted around with us day after day after year. But, as usual when you move, clean, or change out a daily part of your life, there were a few surprises, like:

-a D.C. Metro card with $15.95 on it
-a Trinidadian dollar (perhaps more surprising: I have never been to Trinidad)
-a ticket stub from a performance of "Mary Poppins" in the West End of London in August of 2005
-10 pence (I may be wrong, but I think England changed over to the Euro sometime around 2002...)
-a voter registration card from the address I lived at two voting precincts ago
-a frequent buyer card from a coffee shop in Santa Barbara, where I have not lived in five years, or visited in three
-a ticket to tour W.B. Yeats's tower in western Ireland
-a bank account card for a bank account I closed three and a half years ago
-my British Library card
-at least a dozen business cards of people whose names I do not recognize

Now the question is: how on earth will I live without this stuff in my purse everywhere I go???