I now know that I am not the only man with a purse. I was wondering what is in ethers purses. I'm starting a new one after my last was stolen. I'm putting together a list of my items and hope to inclued it soon. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Maxpedition fatboy Versipack with Surefire Light, Cell Phone, Urban PSk, wallet, checkbook, calender, Digi camera, SAK , SAK steel, Leatherman KF-4 juice, SwissTech screw tool.
Room left for more stuff.
PSk in Witz box with Ranger band contains small magnifier card, swisscard, needles, thread, buttons, alcohol wipe, knuckle bandaids, antibiotic ointment, hydrocortisone cream, diamond grit sharpener,P-38 can opener, mini Bic, whistle, 18 gauge needle, betadyne wipe,Goretex toothe floss, sliver gripper tweezers, Photon light, CountyComm mini strobe, med and large safety pins, 1 dose Migraine meds, compass, small razor knife.
EDC is Kabar Dozier folder, keys with Photon light, whistle and Prybaby.
Dave

Mine is by Eagle Creek but I couldn't find it on their website. It measures about 9x7x4" and has straps for shoulder and waist carry, both of which I use. It hasd two main sections, front and rear, and the front has inside pockets. It's a manly dark green in colour. I love it.

Front section:

• Packet of mints.
• Tape measure 60".

Inside front left pocket:

• Paper money reserve.
• Silva compass.
• Fresnel lens.
• Mirror (cut to fit pocket).
• Waterproof paper (cut to fit pocket).
• "Bullet" Fisher Spacepen.

Inside front right pocket:

• Wire saw.
• Smallish ziplock bag containing wheely-bin liner (large, thin plastic bag).

Inside front zip pocket:

• Coin money.

Rear section:

• 2 medium ziplock bags (held flat with paper clips).
• 6" hacksaw blade.
• Leatherman CS4.
• Zipka-Plus head torch.
• Flat ACR whistle.
• 12' parachord.
• Clipper cigarette lighter.
• Small First Aid kit.
• Gallery Scope close-focus monocular.
• Sparklite box with:
  ** Sparklite.
  ** Tinder
  ** Sewing needle with thread.
  ** Safety pins and paper clips.
  ** 3' duct tape.
  ** 3' thin braided chord (actually a lanyard off something).

At the moment it is lightly packed. I like to keep the front largely free for travel documents. Often there is also a small umbrella in the rear section.

There is room for 300ml of water in the front section (in the smallest Platypus bag - the 500ml bag is too big). If I think I'll need water I usually want to take spare clothing as well, so then I need a rucksack or something.

The Sparklite box was just a convenient box. I find things like paper clips, which ought to take no room at all, end up taking loads of room and being a continual hassle if not controlled. I used to carry 12' of duct tape, which was roughly as big as the Sparklite box, but it took too much space. My tabacco-tin PSK is a bit big for this bag too, which is a shame.

I am tempted to get rid of the fresnel lens as they are useless, especially as I now have the Gallery Scope (a recent purchase). I don't have any water purification, which doesn't bother me, nor do I have a pan for boiling water, which does. I've not really found a good solution to that. The wheely-bin liner is large and thin and light, but not very strong. I have stronger bags but they are thicker and/or too small for me to get inside.

I was also woundering how often you wear your Man-purse?

Right now I wear mine just about all the time when i leave the house.

Maxpedition fatboy with:
(side pocket)
Low Db rated ReUseable Earplugs (Hearos HiFi)
256k USB stick
Vaseline lip therapy tube
Ritter PSP
Leatherman Wave
Photon II
Spyderco Military
Surefire E2E
Butane cig Lighter w/safety lock

(Other Pockets)
Garmin Vista GPS
Surefire M2
Right in the Rain Notepad
Space Pen
Energy Bar
Mechaniz Work Gloves
Snowpeak Ti Spork
Gameboy Advance SP
Small Compass w/mirror
Chewing Gum
Dangling Maxpedition Cocoon for Sunglasses

And there is usually a paperback book and CD/MP3 player w/ Koss PortaPros, plus room for more stuff if need be. If I anticipate needing more space I clip on a RollyPoly.

Mine is EDC, replaced the maxpedition waist pack. Fatboy's a little easier on my (bad) back.

Dave

Sorry for your lose.<img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> I just "finished" (wanna place any bets on how finished it is?) putting together my "man-purse". I pretty much carry it with me as much as possible without coming off as (too) weird<img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />. I have a Maxpedition Fatboy-S (black), with the medium cell phone holder on the sholder strap.

Front Pocket:

• Small Spiral Notebook
• Fisher Space pen (Chrome)
• Gum
  

Front Zipper Pouch:

• Perscription meds
• "Waterproof" (yeah right..) butane lighter
• 4 pack of AA batteries
• 2 pack of CR123 batteries

Zippered Side Pocket:

• Icom R-3 w/telescoping antennea

Velcro Side pocket:

• Inova X5
• Leatherman Supertool 200

Inside Main Pouch:

• Axe Body Spray (for the those days)
• FSK w/latex gloves and mini-bic
• Ritter PSK
• Ozark Trail Hooded Poncho (.89 at wal-mart)
• Shure noise cancelling headphones

In the Front Zipper Flap:

• Work ID

Cell Phone Pouch:

• Cell phone (didn't see that one coming did ya?)

Pants Pocket:

• On my keyring I have: Squirt P4, Photon Freedom, Fox 40 and car keys
• Bandanna & 1GB Jumpdrive Sport

Oh one last thing I wear my "Hideaway Straight Edge" around my neck on a breakaway chain

I just got a fat boy s-type today. It seems to be very popular. I thought it was going to be at least twice as big . This is a good surprise! It can now be a true edc and not just for band trips, vacations, and genural handy-manness. For all you list junkies my next post will include what was in my old bag!

1. Leathermen Wave
2. Scharade vise-grip multi-tool
3. Timberline knife (mini pit bull)
4. Xeon flashlight (from Target)
5. Mini Mag flashlight
6. Zippo lighter Brushed Stainless steal
7. First-Aid-Kit (Spral-mart)
8. 6 in 1 Craftsmen screwdriver
9. 100 yards of nylon string
10. Shoulder bag (manpurse
11. Hip bag
electrical tape, Bandage tape, 6in. monkey wrench, 3 ft. copper wire 14 gage, mirror, sharpie, 10 ft tape measure, 2 precision screwdrivers, and 2 small screwdrivers
12. And of coarse 550 para cord and ducked tape
P.S. I put this together years before I found this place. You can image my surprize when I started reading all the gear lists here.

L-monkey -- Why both?

Leathermen Wave & Scharade vise-grip multi-tool. Don;t they mostly duplicate functions?

I bought a few of the Schrade needle nose vise grip multi tools on sale. Keep 1 in the van and 1 in the BOB's stashed away from the house and 1 in my tool box.

Dave

Vise grip multi tool. Why have I not heard of these? Sounds like a genius idea.

This is what youre talking about right?

There was recently a contest on both KF and OMF. I like most of the other people entering posted my FatBoy and all my gear. I will repost it here.

Here is my entry for the contest.



Picture 1:
Front of pack laying down. Only changes are that I got rid of the shoulder pad (moved around too much) and I changed all the zipper pulls.


Picture 2:
Front of pack standing up.
In this one you can see the mini copy of my Submarine Qualification Pin.


Picture 3:
Front zipper pouch contents:
Double mirror (rubber casing)
Tweezer set with blunt and fine tipped tweezers
Lip Balm
Nail Clippers
Brunton Helios Lighter



Picture 4:
Side of pack standing up showing Glo-Toob (regular model) in Red



Picture 5:
Left side pouch contents:
Garmin Legend GPS
Leatherman Charge XTi (with sheath and tool)
Duct Tape (2in X 100 ft)



Picture 6:
Rear deep zipper pocket contents:
2 man emergency "space" blanket with survival instructions
MSR hand towel
Ziplock bag with sanitary wipes



Picture 7:
Right side contents:
Sanyo 8100 cell phone
Surefire G2Z flashlight with lanyard
Fisher Zero Gravity space pen
Sharpie Marker



Picture 8:
Front of pack with main flap raised, draw string closed.



Picture 9:
Contents of front inside flap:
Altoids Tin Sharpening and Stropping Kit
Waterproof matchcase with REI matches and striker
Rite in Rain Notebook
Waterproof GPS and Map reading book
Mini-FAK
Neck lanyard (placed in FB when at work and not outdoors) with the following:
Fox 40 mini whistle
B&L 20X mini-loop
Leatherman Squirt P-4 in Concealex Sheath
ARC-AAA-P Flashlight in Concealex Sheath



Picture 10:
Inside main compartment contents:
Bark River Knife (Fox River w/red G-10 scales)
Surefire SC-1 with 6 batteries and spare bulb
Petzl Tactica-Plus headlamp and Petzl carrier
4 Lithium AA batteries (in blue box)
3 Lithium AAA batteries and 2 23A batteries (in second blue case)
60 feet Blaze Orange paracord
Pelican 1010 case with PSK
Handkerchief
Monocular (8 x 21)
2 "Ranger Bands" 1 large and 1 small

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Picture 11:
Maxpedition FatBoy with contents all spread out.

I generally take it for shopping or visiting or hiking etc - most things when I'm away from my home.

I don't usually take it to work, and I don't always take it if I'm going "out" pubbing etc in the evening. Nowadays I have enough confidence in my EDC that I don't feel I need the waist pack.

Do you have a link to the contest? I'd like to see the other entries as well.

No problem. It was held over at Knife Forums and at OMF. No need to bother with going to OMF as only 2 people entered there and we both entered at KF as well. I won at OMF and got a brand spanking new DevilDog Versipack from Tim at Maxpedition. The perfect bag if you were to set up a "Cody Lundin" type kit from 98 degrees. Link as follows:

http://www.knifeforums.com/ubbthreads/sh...=1&vc=1