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I keep an older phone. Primary reason is backup in case the primary phone battery explodes (or other weird shit), but it doubles as backup phone when I travel.
While traveling, I have a big conspicuous wallet where I keep cash and enough of my cards, and inconspicuous one with one other credit card and folded-in paper with important phone numbers.
Never been mugged, as I travel in boring touristy places, my primary worry is pickpockets.
TBH my primary worry is me. I've never been mugged or pickpocketed, I just added it for completeness sake. But I have lost a lot of things over the years. If I get to thinking deeply about something or reading something interesting, I could get quite absent-minded sometimes. Usually the victims are hats, umbrellas, sunglasses, chargers, water bottles and such small items, but one day I could get especially unlucky.
That's the list of Stuff I Lose as well. You know what the common thread is with all those items? They're things you don't carry in your pockets every day, just when you're out and about. Life gives us very good instincts to take care of phone/wallet/keys - in fact, when I travel, it often takes me a day or two to get over not having my regular keys in my pocket. This is the other thing about passports, they're easy to lose because you're not used to carrying them.
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