when you renew your passport, get a passport card as well - easy to carry in wallet, valid federal ID, good for going to Canada and Mexico, no worries about losing your larger paper passport somewhere. it's like $40 to add it to your renewal (or get it new, I guess.)

I always use mine whenever I have to show ID somewhere especially if it's some place that wants to scan DLs and harvest that data for whatever bad purpose (looking at you, Target.) they just kind of look at it and go "huh." and move on