If you do have to leave you BOB you have to use what you have on you. So what is you EDC?

Mine:
Gerber Vector
Smith & Wesson Trapper
Gerber Clutch & Larger Multi Tool(forgot which one)
Bic lighter
15 foot Paracord
Light my fire scout model
Paper matches
Tube of chap stick

That should get me the thirty feet to my truck for maxie kit.

goat

- Spyderco Salt-I

- Freedom led light

- 2.0 meg flash drive with personal, business & financial records

- Altoids tin PSK with: 8 waterproof matches, spark-lite, 6 pieces of tinder, 16" square of aluminum foil folded, button compass, whistle, 4' of wire, mini-knife, fresnel lens card, 3 fish hooks, 3 swivels, 4 shot sinkers, 30' of dental floss, survival instruction card, 3 large safety pins, 4' of duct tape, with the tin wrapped in 6' of paracord.

- Sucrets tin FAK with assorted bandaids, aspirin, advil, sting/itch relief creme, antibacterial creme, antiseptic wipes, tape, mini-scissors, gauze bandage, first aid instructions, also wrapped in 6' of paracord.

I play with the contents of the tins constantly, but that's what's in there right now. I, too, hope these will get me the 50' to my car and the more complete PSK and FAK in the trunk.


Frank2135

Swiss army knife, strike anywhere matches, and a handkerchef.

My list also goes up and down, this is as small is it gets though.

Me:

Leatherman Wave or one of many kinds of SAK's.
LED Flashlight on Keyring
Fox-40 Whistle on Keyring
A red bandanna
A Lighter
AT&T Never-Expiring Calling Card (60 Minutes)
Some cash (usually about $120)

I'm never that far from an ammo pouch with:
4 Emergency drinking water pouches (24 oz Total)
Space Blanket
Mag-Fire Fire Starter
Rain Poncho (bright orange)
Micro-Trauma Kit (Just Gloves, Gauze, Medic Shears)
Window Punch (Ring-Style, same as we use for auto extrications)

Given that the recent steam explosion in NYC happened literally right as I was walking in the area, the thing I learned that is most important is the ability to RUN either TO or AWAY from the emergency.

The rest, you can improvise.

I am pretty minimal;
BM Mini Griptilian
BSA Hotspark on keys
Doug Ritter Photon Freedom on keys
4 McNett AquaMira tabs in wallet
4 Quick Tinder in wallet
Casio GzOne cell phone http://www.casiogzone.com/type_s/

Okay, I'll play.
Ritter Grip/RSK Mk1
Mission Wallet (containing Peak Matterhorn 1xAAA LED, SAK Pioneer, Leatherman Micra, 2"x3" signal mirror from DR's PSP, 1/8"x2" ferro rod)
That's it. I'm sitting at the computer not even wearing shoes, but I have that stuff in my pockets, go figure.

This topic has been beat to death many times over. If you are interested, here is the third of three major threads on this board Every Day Carry - Part III. The search function will yeald much more. And if you simply can't get enough, go over to Blade Forums and knock yourself out - over 132 pages last time I checked.

Craig.

The topic may have been beat to death, but I consider the occasional inquiry from other members of the forum to be a friendly reminder: if you don't have it with you, it's not gonna help you. So relax, have fun with it, and do a quick inventory of how prepared you are, or aren't.

Frank2135

Setting here at my computer (at Home)
1. Old model Wave.
2. small compass on flint bar & striker.
3. 5 wind and water proof matches and striker
4. small flashlight and whistle.
All of the above is in my Leatherman Wave Case on my hip.
5. cell phone
6. one Red bandana
7. one white hankie
8. large pockit knife (3 blade)
9. key ring with leatherman Micra
10. Mini bic lighter.
11. watch (digtal)with compass on band

And like RAS no shoes, and it's hot no shirt.
I also have 2 BOB's and some of my altillery within an arms reach.

Here's my keychain and I carry the buck crosslock to work.

2 (4 gig) jump drives
2 keys for my locker at work
1 lockpick
1 compass
1 light my fire army flint
1 mag/flint bar
1 peanut lighter
1 lighter fluid in FOB
1 Extra flints in FOB
1 Sterling knife sharpener
1 tweezers
1 nail clipper
1 proton light
1 whistle
1 mimi gerber multitool

Minimal stuff on keychain and belt
Mag solitare
Mini whistle
Fero rod
Cheap pocket knife
Leatherman wave.

Just to derail the topic slightly, am I the only one who has some thing of a reputation for, shall we say, being resourceful?

I ask, because as some of you have probably heard, we are having a spot of bother with the weather in the U.K. at the moment. The warehouse I work in was flooded. Second time it has happened. First time was when one of my colleges managed to decapitate a main pipe for the sprinkler system. Which the pump house read as a fire when the system pressure dropped. With predictable results. 4" of water in less than 2 min's. And rising. we wound up with just under 6". Even with it flowing out of all the doors. We had to move quite a lot of stock VERY quickly. Unlike some of my colleges I had the common to put plastic bags over my boots. Just by way of keeping my feet dry. And warm. I am still getting abuse about it two years later. It's not my fault that some of my workmates are too thick to pour p...... out of a boot.
The whole event has become known as The Great Flood.

This time round it was the weather. I had the good fortune to be in a differant warehouse, up hill. Didn't know about it untill after. However one of the resident wit's wanders up to me the next day and observes that he was some what surprised by my absence. He was expecting me to sail past him on a raft that I had wipped up out of a pallet, some plastic sheeting and some tape..........

Now had there been Office Totty trapped by the rising waters.....

Not that's a keychain. Imagine, mine has only ...keys...

Teacher

I know Teacher, but some of these things have come in handy from time to time. I've had to use the lighter more frequently than I thought, the light and compass,tweezers,gerber,usb drives,keys,nail clipper and lock pick I use actually quite a lot. Really the whistle and the ferro rods I don't really use. And the beauty of carrying all this stuff in your pocket is it makes a great backup boat anchor for a big boat.

Right this minute something like this:


BM Mini Grip
SAK Soldier
Photon II
Sliver Grippers
SAK Rambler (not the Classic SD in the pic)
REI aluminum whistle
Plastic pill fob w/ Advil, etc (not shown)
LM Juice S2 (not the Squirt P4 in this pic)
All-Ett w/ bandaids, safety pins, coins, etc.
Cell phone
Folding reading glasses
Eye drops
Bandana
Pocket Mod
Gel pen

Kevin B.

I like your style, falcon5000
Where did you get such a nice lockpick tool?

Mine is not that impressive and yet incomplete. I have much more in my ScotteVest pockets though. Sorry for the image quality, no good camera at hands.


1 Colibri turbo lighter (yes, I'm a smoker);
1 Peanut lighter with 1 ft duct tape (sealed) as a reserve;
1 LM squirt P4 multitool (pliers);
1 whistle;
1 airtight container (not sure what to put in it yet);
1 Dermatone lip balm +23 SPF sunscreen;
1.5 ft of paracord (lanyard);
1 Photon X-light;
1 carabiner;
+some keys.

And you probably know that blue thing at the center - it's the key-rings easy-release thing. I have one in my vest and one in my jeans pocket. So I'm often reconfiguring the things I'm carying around to have the more relevant of them closer at hands, or to reduce the bulk.

AMK PSP Modified w/ Vic. Alox Classic in belt pouch
AMK Pocket First Aid Kit Modified in belt pouch
Ibuprofen vile with 24 200mg
Bayer Aspirin vile with 18 325's
Bark River PSK knife
Vic. Swiss Army Alox Farmer
Leatherman Micra
Verizon Wireless G'zOne Type-S
Walking shorts with liner
Master Pro belt with survival items inside
T-Shirt
Socks
Walking shoes
Brace from hip to ankle
Keys with 2 photon lights, Bison whistle, bison capsule with fire starter

Wallet with
Visa Card
Debit card
$150 cash

Within arms reach
2 Aluminum crutches
Maxpedition Devil Dog pack with
2 full 1.5 liter Sigg Aluminum water bottles
Snow Peak Solo TI cook set
Esbit Stove and fuel
Equinox Poncho
Equinox 10x10 tarp
Equinox 6x8 trap
50' 550 cord
100' 2.5mm cord
2 - AMK Heatsheats
4 power bars
Fenix 2p light with lithium batteries
2 lithium AA batteries spare
7 days prescription meds
Bark River Bravo-1 knife
Brass Spark lite with 20 tinder
Glock 22 with 2 spare mags
2 - Bandannas

Nice rig you got Alex, I got the knife pick here. I use it allot at work with people always locking keys in toolboxes or locking a door behind them with there keys still in the room. A definite asset.

http://www.lockpicktools.com/lockpicks.htm

Well, I'll try to get everything...

1.)Wallet, which contains -
Spare car key
$20 Emergency Money
Victorinox Swisscard w/ extra razor blade taped to it, and sewing needles inside with the nail file
Emergency phone numbers/contacts

2.)Cell Phone
3.)Assorted keys, including home, car, padlocks, and even a handcuff key, all with broken off multitool attachment to the keychain
4.)Victorinox Swisstool Spirit
5.)CRKT folder (forgot what kind, but it's got that new locking system, forgot what that was too)
6.)Bandanas (2-3 in back pocket)
7.)Assorted cord, some braided to store extra (in other back pocket)
8.)Any one of my "Survival Tubes" (usually made from empty Airborne tubes), which contain any/all of the following -
Small Classic SD SAK or Leatherman Micra
Sparklite
Cottonballs
Safety Pins
Sewing thread
Strike-anywhere matches
Trick re-lighting birthday candles
small compass
other sewing needles
9.) Inova X5 flashlight
and finally...
10.) The gray matter between my ears which the Almighty has bestowed upon me and for which I am thankful for each and every day, even though I don't probably mention that as often as the big man upstairs likes...

You notice everyone else has a flashlight in their kit? Try getting anywhere in a strong wind with your bic and matches. If I could carry only one surivival item it would be a flashlight.
simon

Cell phone
Keys w/ Photon
Full size RSK
Leatherman KF4 Juice
Mini-Bic lighter
Kel-Tec P3AT
Wallet w/ permit, ID, credit & debit cards, $30 cash, Zantac
Comb

Well, let's see:

Wallet (actually overstretched leather card case) with I.D.'s, various credit cards, mini list (as in small font) of meds that my wife and I take, mini-list of important serial numbers (goodies like weapons, cameras, etc, just in case they should come up missing), and quite a bit of hide-out cash ($20 or so won't get you much these days); pen and pocked notebook; at least two pocket packs of Kleenex; two bandanas; Surefire G2 two spare C123 batteries; Leatherman New Wave; Leatherman Micra on ring with a Uncle Bills Sliver Gripper and a little metal toothpick; money clip with cash; usually Kahr MK40 with spare mag; red dog tag with my really important meds, ACR whistle and photon on the chain; pull-apart keyring with every important key, including a handcuff key (still got a few pair of cuffs around too), and a Proto screwdriver. Just for sentimental reasons, my orignial USAF dog tag, and my wifes original USN dog tags. Cell phone (with the ringer turned off. Hate phones ringing all over the place). Probably more, but that is all that comes to mind at the moment. Did I mention that I really like cargo pants???

How could I have forgotten my original P-38, and a BSA Hotspark on the keyring???

Leigh,

I teach at an all-girls high school (ages 14 - 18 here in the former colonies)and I'm the first or second teacher that they seek out when they have a flat tire or dead battery. My fellow teachers also seek me out when they are having equipment malfunctions. I recently received acclaim when I cleared a jammed photocopier with my photon II, Leatherman Squirt S4 and a coat hanger. My colleagues know that I always have some tools, duct tape, and other ETS type stuff locked away in my classroom.

It's a terrible burden sometimes, but being the dependable one does have some rewards. When my wife kisses me and say's that I'm her hero, well, that's something that money can't buy.

- Benchmade Griptillian
- Fenix L1D-CE
- Spare AA battery
- Leatherman Wave
- Light-my-fire 'army' Fire-steel
- Hankerchiff
- Cell-phone
- Keychain with Leatherman Squirt, Photon II, scissors and tweezers on them
- Watch
- Note-pad and pencil
- couple of nitril gloves

Jacket:

- Wallet with ID, cash, emergency cash and a BCB pocket survival-tool
- 2 pairs of nitrile gloves in a small pouch
- 1 small bottle of purell
- 1 BIC-lighter
- 1 FAK: - 2 7,5x5cm gauze pads
- 1 7,5x5cm vaseline dressing
- 3 Band-Aid
- 10 bandages
- 2 Asperin
- 2 Acethaminophen
- 2 Ibuprofen
- 2 glucose tablets
- 2 povidone-iodine prep-pad's
- 2 alcohol prep-pads
- 2 antiseptic pad's

- 1 quick-dressing nr1
- 1 triangulair-bandage
- space-blanket
- CPR-kit (mask,gloves and wipe)
- pair of EMT-scissors

At school I can only carry the Leatherman Squirt and the EMT-scissors.

I got a call tonight from my coworker that he had locked his keys in his work truck and needed me to drive there and unlock the door for him.

You know when your EDC is too much when you start carrying spare keys for other peoples vehicles!

Mike

P.S. Of course I now get to tease my coworker tomorrow morning, until he pays me off with a coffee at breaktime!

He should be paying with more than just coffee. :P I charge a good dinner for car unlockings.

For folks that wanna see more cool gear pictures, check out:

www.edcforums.com

I like this keychain setup:

On me right now I have:

Wallet (devoid of money)
keys on carabiner
Cell phone
folding leatherman c300 knife
leatherman new wave
energizer pen light
ferro cerium rod on small carabiner

While not on me now, I usually carry a small altoids tin also, containing:

Altoids