--- title: Terry Crews Keeps a Picture of Himself in His Wallet description: Terry Crews has taken to keeping a photo of his Everybody Hates Chris character inside his wallet to remind him not to spend money. canonical: https://time.com/4512101/terry-crews-picture-wallet/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-28T20:31:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:08.755Z og:title: The Hilarious Reason Terry Crews Keeps His Photo in His Wallet og:description: Everyone should start doing this og:url: https://time.com/4512101/terry-crews-picture-wallet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Hilarious Reason Terry Crews Keeps His Photo in His Wallet twitter:description: Everyone should start doing this twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Terry Crews Just Hilariously Proved He Knows How Internet-Famous His Photo Is > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 28, 2016 8:31 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 28, 2016 8:31 PM UTC Following in the footsteps of a [Twitter](http://time.com/4509375/twitter-disney-google-salesforce/) user who recently claimed he keeps a picture of [Terry Crews](http://time.com/3834360/lip-sync-battle-terry-crews-mike-tyson/) in his wallet to help him save money, Crews himself has apparently adopted the practice. After [Daniel The Goat](https://twitter.com/MrDanielCabral) shared a photo in September of a picture of Crews’s notoriously thrifty character from _Everybody Hates Chris_ inside his wallet, the tweet quickly went [viral](http://time.com/4508190/pen-pineapple-apple-pen-song/), garnering over 222,000 retweets to date. “I keep this pic of Terry Crews in my wallet so I can see it when I’m about to waste money on things I don’t need lol,” he wrote. > [](https://twitter.com/MrDanielCabral/status/774091838357512192) Now, the _Brooklyn Nine-Nine_ star has taken to using the money-saving tactic, posting a photo to Instagram Tuesday of the same picture inside his own wallet. What a time to be alive. \[h/t [Buzzfeed](https://www.buzzfeed.com/victoriasanusi/thats-30-cent-worth-of-oatmel?bftw&utm%5Fterm=.rpYkVLr72#.mmgmeZWVw)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4512101/terry-crews-picture-wallet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4512101/terry-crews-picture-wallet/"},"headline":"Terry Crews Just Hilariously Proved He Knows How Internet-Famous His Photo Is","datePublished":"2016-09-28T20:31:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:08.755Z","description":"Everyone should start doing this","url":"https://time.com/4512101/terry-crews-picture-wallet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4512101/terry-crews-picture-wallet/","name":"Terry Crews Just Hilariously Proved He Knows How Internet-Famous His Photo Is"}}]}] ```