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What do you carry with you every day (excluding keys, wallet, and phone)?
For me it would be my pocket knife. I grew up on a farm where it's pretty important to have one and I never shook the habit. I don't use it often these days, but when I do need it it's really nice to simply have it on hand.
A relevant and on-topic reminder that Adam Sandler is a comedy genius.
The only way I can accept that is if you were to agree that he enjoys making people suffer.
The dude made Punch-Drunk Love. He’s alright;)
And my oh my was he good in Uncut Gems. And The Meyerowitz Stories. Just because he makes shit films for money doesn't mean the man isn't talented.
Nothing, the exact combination of phone, wallet and keys is the only thing I consistently take with me every day.
edit: actually nvm, I take Bluetooth headphones (either airpod pros or wf3000s) out every day these days
I guess glasses but I'm sure that doesn't count.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say they do! Though I guess if they do, so do clothes and shoes and stuff. Though those aren't keys, wallet, phone!
A handkerchief. I got a stack of them as a baby-shower gift, and while the little ones were wee, it really came in handy. Now that they're older, I still carry one every day.
They're useful in more situations than you'd think: glasses cleaner, laptop screen duster, first-aid kit, towel after sudden downpours, temporary lashing, face mask, lost-tooth (or other small treasure) holder, sweat mopper on the really hot days, emergency toilet paper (haven't had to use it for this, yet). Heck, you can even use it to blow your nose if you really need to.
These are the every day, everywhere items. They fit in my pockets, or on my person.
Typical configuration is wallet and phone in my left pocket, keys, knife, pencil in my right pocket, watch on my wrist, sunglasses on my head, paper in one back pocket, mask in the other.
I frequently also bring these items, though not as much since lockdown:
This all fits in my brown messenger satchel.
Man, you must have massive trousers
I don't think they're particularly large, and they fit in all the jeans / chinos / shorts that I wear most of the time.
I think part of it is that I keep my wallet very small. A lot of people seem to have huge thick wallets that have everything in it. Mine has very little in it, and the material is really thin (waterproof paper). The most ungainly thing right now is the addition of the earbuds, which just don't quite mesh anywhere other than the right hand pocket.
I'm also adding in a 178g Aviar (Disc Golf Putter) to my satchel when I bring it. I might take out the Ultrastar because I haven't played ultimate since last year and the only people I play with are my family and we can just plan to bring one with when relevant.
On my keys I have a Leatherman Squirt PS4 which comes in handy quite a lot. I also carry a Yubikey 5 NFC hardware security key which handles all my 2 factor needs. (One of these days I'll look at setting up my SSH private key on it too)
Other than that I normally have a little A6 or A7 notebook with a pen, my phone and my wallet.
A Kobo eReader: Not every single day, but I take it whenever I think there might be time to read. I find myself waiting in a line more than ever these days.
Phone, wallet, keys, Airpods pro, something to blow my nose on. I used to carry a bag but I so rarely needed it so I just dropped the habit.
Rarely carry keys: most of the time I leave the house unlocked. Hate carrying a phone, leave that at home when I possibly can (and it's a dumb phone if I do carry one). Rarely take wallet, just a debit card. A tiny tube of lip balm. Quite often a dog poo bag, but that's more incidental than deliberate.
My backpack with all the school material being a few books for me to write stuff in separated by school subject, a few "handouts" ("apostila" , Google translated) for stuff to be written in and the "case/pencil case" (Google translate for "estojo") to write stuff in.
A few notes of cash, usually to buy groceries for my parents. (I'm a 14-yo teenager and I don't have a wallet so I'm technically correct. Eat scraps ni🅱🅱a.)
There's also my glasses and a mask, but the mask is temporary and my glasses are much like a wallet or keys to me.
Other than for those two things and the stuff in the title? I don't really go outside. I don't have friends, dates or a job, and now I don't have school either so why would I want to go outside?
Glasses (see my other comment), watch; I try to remember a pen but I have been forgetting; I also have a spork in my back pack that I carry with me, and a water bottle.
If my car counts, my entire camera kit and a pair of digital calipers.
It started off as an accident since I just didn't have anywhere else to put them, but you'd be amazed at how often the calipers are useful.
In a work context or an everyday life context?
A little of both.
The most recent example is at work I was asked to try to fix some security cameras, which were 'plugged in' to the power supply by literally taping the exposed leads to a barrel plug. One measurement later and I've got the female jacks on order.
Airpods and a face mask.
I don't even carry most of those things unless I know I'm going to need them. Given my wife works from home now I rarely need my keys unless we're both going out. Almost all my shopping is online so I usually don't need my wallet (and not having it means I'm less likely to buy snacks and get fat). My phone almost always but occasionally not.
Other things I might carry - headphones sometimes. Heart rate monitor if I'm cycling but that's a wearable so does that count? Camera bag if I'm going somewhere new or interesting (which at the moment is almost never). I'm very much a minimalist when it comes to the contents of my pockets and bags, I'm always trying to reduce the amount of stuff I'm carrying. I'll only take things I know I'll need, and when I'm packing my camera bag I'll generally choose only a couple of lenses rather than take everything.
The Kid, on the other hand, has a shedload of stuff in his EDC setup, including but not limited to several complete changes of clothing, nappies, wipes, toys, snacks, drink, books, drybags, hairbrush, suncream, hat, more snacks, extra shoes, changing mat, a selection of Important Sticks and Interesting Stones.
Every day I carry in my pocket (if I'm wearing jeans, then the small pocket) a USB stick, which I basically use as a replacement for cloud sync.
On most of my personal computers, I have a folder called Sync which I synchronize with a Sync folder on the USB drive. I usually use Microsoft's SyncToy program for this, although I'm looking for something that can constantly watch a directory for changes and queue transfers until the USB drive is inserted; might have to write that program myself.
But otherwise, it works really well: in terms of storage, you get 16, 32, whatever gigabytes (there are even flash drives with one terabyte of storage!) for a one time fee, and you never need an internet connection. You can access to your files on any computer that has a USB port.
Only drawback might be FAT32, which has a max file size of 4 gigabytes. But I suppose you could also use NTFS, seeing as how it's reasonably supported by most systems today.
I keep a usb key attached to my keys. On it I keep a Windows installer/recovery environment (I reinstall windows images on test machines a lot at work) and a bunch of utilities (ccleaner, 7zip, cygwin installer, a bunch of my own scripts etc).
In my backpack, which I take most places, I always have my work laptop, some deodorant, some allen keys (for my bike), a usbc charger, a fork, some advil and a charger for my smart watch.
Pocket knife, space pen, sometimes a very small pocket sized notebook, Yubikey, USB, and a bottle opener
Phone, wallet, keys, earbuds, watch. I almost always carry a pack of hankerchiefs, a pocket knife, a pen and sunglasses (in summer) with me
Headphones (AirPods Pro) and a chapstick (burt’s bees standard peppermint). That’s about it. I try and reduce what I carry every day. My wallet is pretty slim (flowfold). I have tried to reduce the number of keys that I have to carry with little effect. I would love to get a smart lock and ditch a house key, but they are expensive, and I am not sure my roomie would appreciate it.
Edit: and a watch. Currently an Apple Watch s3 Nike ceramic LTE.
Pack of hankerchiefs, a book, a Swiss army knife, water if it's hot, a pen and a mask nowadays.
Phone, wallet, Apple Watch, and a face mask these days. Occasionally I’ll go through phases where I carry a field notes notebook and a small pen, but I find I don’t really use them when I do.
These days: mask, pocket knife, headphones, hat, bottle opener (on keychain).
Wallet and keys are both clipped to a large carabiner that I hang from my belt, together with a "glasses repairing kit" with a few screwdriver bits (PH00/2.5 mm, PH0/3 mm, PH1/4 mm). These go in my right pocket, sometimes with a pen.
If I'm wearing pants with a coin pocket, that's where I put an €1 coin - I pretty much only use physical money for shopping carts, these days - and my hair ties, otherwise they go in the left pocket, together with my phone, a pack of tissues, and a flashlight.
I pretty much always have these things on me, even when just bringing the trash out. If I will have to be out for longer, I will also have my backpack with me.
It's pretty large - I bought it so I could carry my groceries on my back, instead of having to carry flimsy plastic bags around - and, at a bare minimum, it contains:
Chapstick and water in these arid climes!
Once I have enough saved up for a pair of Airpods Pros... Airpods Pros.
My Garmin watch. I need to get those steps in. Even if I forget it and I'm within a 5 minute walk back, I will walk back just to wear it to wherever I am going. I leave my phone on silent often and its useful to be able to get a nudge when an important text comes through or a phone call on my wrist.
Beyond the basics in the title, I briefly (maybe 1 day?) carried a knife on my person. I drunkenly threw it into the street when a ..club.. wouldn't let me in with it.
Oh, I guess my vivosmart 4 is an "everyday carry." And I recently bought these CVJ-CSN headphones that I've been walking around with pretty regularly.