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Top Practical Everyday Carry Items You Need

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Like everybody else in the world, my EDC is based on my experience. At some time or another in my life I got caught short without some piece of my current EDC and I decided I was never going to get caught short like that again.

A couple people have asked about a handkerchief, my very first real job I was working as a concrete laborer in Houston Texas. I don't know if it was hay fever or what but my nose started running at work one day. I went through almost all of the toilet paper in the porta potty And then I went to the site supervisor's office to ask if I could borrow a paper towel. The site supervisor didn't like me so he cussed me out, screamed at me and ordered me out of his office.

I never ever forgot that. It was literally 40 years ago and I still never leave home without a handkerchief.

I carry a first aid kit with me wherever I go because I'm on blood thinners.

I carry a flashlight because when I was working I was asked to stay over and cover part of the night shift more than once. I've also been on the shop floor of a factory and had the lights go out.

I carry water because it's cheaper than buying it and better for me than soda.

I carry the notebook because of the incident with the cop downtown.

Etc, Etc, Etc.
 
The Night Rider said:
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Like everybody else in the world, my EDC is based on my experience. At some time or another in my life I got caught short without some piece of my current EDC and I decided I was never going to get caught short like that again.

A couple people have asked about a handkerchief, my very first real job I was working as a concrete laborer in Houston Texas. I don't know if it was hay fever or what but my nose started running at work one day. I went through almost all of the toilet paper in the porta potty And then I went to the site supervisor's office to ask if I could borrow a paper towel. The site supervisor didn't like me so he cussed me out, screamed at me and ordered me out of his office.

I never ever forgot that. It was literally 40 years ago and I still never leave home without a handkerchief.

I carry a first aid kit with me wherever I go because I'm on blood thinners.

I carry a flashlight because when I was working I was asked to stay over and cover part of the night shift more than once. I've also been on the shop floor of a factory and had the lights go out.

I carry water because it's cheaper than buying it and better for me than soda.

I carry the notebook because of the incident with the cop downtown.

Etc, Etc, Etc.
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TNR,

You have a very sensible load out. Is that the report number at the upper right?

Randall
 
Randall Chaney said:
TNR,

You have a very sensible load out. Is that the report number at the upper right?

Randall
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NGL I don't remember what that number is. Someone at the gym wrote it down on that paper and gave it to me. I don't waste paper. I folded it up and put it in my note book.

I haven't had to take a CSN in four years.
The format for a CSN is Year, Month, Date, Incident number.

example
CSN250319001.

CSPD are all issued business cards now, if you ask for a CSN they usually write it on their business card. Back when I was doing paper reports I always attached the card to the report.
 
HansGruber said:
No poop, there.

I’ve got two metal hips; the chandelier of gear around my waist approach does not, and will not work for me.

I think when it comes to EDC, one comes to realize what you actually need, and use, on an everyday basis, versus the “Worst case scenario” version that far too many internet talking heads say we “need”.
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I think everyone adjusts to their environments and will pocket or pack for themselves. Some folks are gadget-oriented and stuff their pants full and that’s cool. Others are more pragmatic and strip it down to bare necessities. Either way or in between, whatever gives buoyancy to your ship!

Randall
 
Randall Chaney said:
I think everyone adjusts to their environments and will pocket or pack for themselves. Some folks are gadget-oriented and stuff their pants full and that’s cool. Others are more pragmatic and strip it down to bare necessities. Either way or in between, whatever gives buoyancy to your ship!

Randall
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That’s a great way to put it; I think one needs to do an individual threat assessment, and load out accordingly.

I live in a low-threat, semi-rural area; I have less of a chance of needing a gun in, say, the KwikTrip when I get fuel than I will from some over-testosteroned country bumpkin on the county highway…

Which is why I tend to carry a J-frame in town, and have a high-cap blaster and a bullpup long gun in my vehicle.
 
HansGruber said:
No poop, there.

I’ve got two metal hips; the chandelier of gear around my waist approach does not, and will not work for me.

I think when it comes to EDC, one comes to realize what you actually need, and use, on an everyday basis, versus the “Worst case scenario” version that far too many internet talking heads say we “need”.
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This is exactly right. The list I put up there is just a regular day wherever. Which is why I wasn't specific about which knives or guns ( that plus I have a lot of both so I tend to mix it up, again, depending on where I'm going). And even that isn't wholly accurate. These days the district I work in is a lot more suburban and upscale so I almost never actually have a gun on my person while I'm working, though there is always one close, usually the same spot I put my wallet and keys. If I'm knee or waist deep in a hole in Karen's front yard with a shovel in my hand there's usually a work phone on the ground next to me, smokes and a lighter in my shirt pocket and a beater knife in my front right pocket.

I have a smaller 5.11 bag that is almost always near me that has all kinds of crap in it, but I didn't list it because it's usually in my vehicle. And you know, there are other bags. Sometimes one has a 10.5" folded pistol in it and 3 P mags. Trunks of cars and behind seats of trucks each have their own bags with "Get home" type stuff in them.
 
Bassbob said:
This is exactly right. The list I put up there is just a regular day wherever. Which is why I wasn't specific about which knives or guns ( that plus I have a lot of both so I tend to mix it up, again, depending on where I'm going). And even that isn't wholly accurate. These days the district I work in is a lot more suburban and upscale so I almost never actually have a gun on my person while I'm working, though there is always one close, usually the same spot I put my wallet and keys. If I'm knee or waist deep in a hole in Karen's front yard with a shovel in my hand there's usually a work phone on the ground next to me, smokes and a lighter in my shirt pocket and a beater knife in my front right pocket.

I have a smaller 5.11 bag that is almost always near me that has all kinds of crap in it, but I didn't list it because it's usually in my vehicle. And you know, there are other bags. Sometimes one has a 10.5" folded pistol in it and 3 P mags. Trunks of cars and behind seats of trucks each have their own bags with "Get home" type stuff in them.
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Yep. I have a sling pack in my jeep with what I consider required stuff just in case.
 
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