So much of EDC seems to be centered around either surviving alone in the woods for days or alternatively using your tactical pen to stab a terrorist to death and John McClane the building. I’m John Suburban and my EDC includes a gun, a ferrorod and a tacpen with built in seatbelt slicer and window breaker (none of which I ever trained to use, but am assured will use competently after a flip over car crash into a body of water).
Which is a shame, because I think EDC stuff is cool. Little nifty tools! What do the denizens of this here website chapo.chat like for non chud EDC applications?
I’ll start off with some favourites,
- a small AA-powered flashlight by EOLite (self-explanatory I think)
- a Gerber Dime (basically one of those small swiss army knives but the pliers are a nice touch for a lot of things, like not touching the garbage juice)
- a keychain presta-to-schrader adapter to reinflate my bicycle tyres at any given gas station, should the need arise
Currently also building a bicycle EDC-Pouch where space isn’t limited to pocket size, would love to hear what other people use.
Real answer is that I’ve got a really cool keychain that I can spin around my finger for fidgeting. I’ve got a sort of multi-tool metal thing that fits in my wallet, which isn’t good for anything, but it’s fine enough for most things. A bottleopener in my keychain (for beers). A diary, a calender (I forget to use the phone one) whatever book I’m not reading at the moment, but feel like I should be. Water in a big bottle, but I just lost my big water bottle, so now I’m drinking out of random regular bottles like a peasant. Sometimes a camera if I’m feeling frisky.
It’s getting to the point where you can’t trust the weather, so I’ll put a rain parka in my backpack and then forget I have it when it’s raining.