What's in your bag? / Everyday carry (EDC)

Srs bznss in this thread. I'm bored and strongly feel I should join in. Gather round:

The bag in question is a dirty and tatty timbuk2 messenger in orange and fetching pink purchased from the Kilburn branch of Cycle surgery in March 2008.

Main compartment:

• scrunched up rapha city rain jacket (in need of a wash and re-waterproof)
  
• 2 letters from British Gas (unopened) and 1 from BT (opened)
  
• 1 pair black suit socks (dirty)
  
• 1 pair black trainer socks (clean)
  
• 1 biro (blue, cap missing )
  
• Rayban Meteor sunglasses in case
  
• 1 battered A5 molskine notebook containging assorted song lyrics and setlists
  
• 1 pair Kiefer jammer swimming trunks (black)
  
• 1 tissue (unused)
  
• A £1 coin
  
  

Front zip Pocket:

• Nothing. F*ck, where are my keys? Oh wait it's okay they're on my desk
  
  

Front non zippy pocket:

• front and rear Knog Frogs (off my wife's bike)
  
• 3 blunt HB pencils of various ages. Two of them are possibly pre-decimal and have been chewed and sharpened down to half their original length
  
• 1 "Zebra" Retractable rollerball pen (blue)
  
  

Big inside pocket:

• 1 disposable cigarette lighter
  
• 1 black liquid roller pen
  
• small pile of receipts; Sainsbury's Forest Hill, The Queen's Head Bramfield, Post Office Westminster Bridge Road (for a package sent to Bolivia)
  
• 1 page torn out of a Moleskine notebook with the Lyrics to "Picture in a Frame" by Tom Waits hurredly scrawled on one side and two pub gig setlists on the other
  
• a 5p coin
  
  

Small Inside Pocket:

• My work Blackberry (battery dead as usual)
  
• 2 large orange pills of unknown provenance
  
• A set of 2 Dunlop brass fingerpicks and a Fender medium tortoiseshell thumbpick
  
• another disposable ciragette lighter
  
• A tube of Anusol
  
  

Phone pocket:
Nothing

Pen pockets:
Nothing

YOU ARE WELCOME!

You need pictures @Apone. We are gagging to see what a pre-decimal HB pencil looks like.

y u no have dust or lint

A tube of Anusol

no wonder lugging all that around bro!

botty grief is no laughing matter sir

Yes. It's heavy

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I love that little Bahco socket set, although it's become a little less necessary for me now I have the Topeak ratchet rocket.

Yup the 'Baby Bahco' as it's known in our workshop is a fave for almost everything. Think we got 3 sets now along with the big set. Not quite Snap-on quality ratchets but nice for the price.
Nice bag Crimson but Panasonic guns or >>>>

Will have to do my work bags for this thread now.

@spotter I have one of those Gerbers for work.
It is great.
Have a look at Heinnie Haynes . com

Let's bring this back to life-no cheating like 'errr yeah I always carry this Rambo knife' no just a raw pocket drop that's all.

Phone (sniper taped as the glass back shattered)
Wallet (also sniper taped) with plasters and card tool and condom and ofc usuals
Student ID+key card
Leatherman style cs

anyone tried one of these Basic wallets?

http://www.basicsproducts.com/

I prefer my 31trum:
Currently 5 cards. Bunch of cash. Slim streamlined and it matches all my other 31trum stuff:

Everything must match.

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My wallet. Muji card holder. Oyster works without being removed. Debit card at the other end of the pile, flap opens on that side so easy to slide out. Other useful cards in the middle. Coins can >>>

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I hate carrying coins too. I empty my pockets on returning to my desk or home as soon as possible. I periodically spend a happy hour counting out my riches into coin bags then taking it down to the bank. Last time I cashed in my whiskey bottle coin stash it had over £350 in it. Would like to say I bought a new stereo amp with it but it went towards paying off the car. *sulk

My bag is always full of pants and socks because I'm always chucking a spare pair of work undies in at the start of the day in case of getting soaked on my commute then forgetting to take them out. I often end up with half dozen or more pairs of socks and pants in there and not much else.

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On the coins, it's worth noting that Metro Bank (at least the one on TCR) has a free coin counting machine. I got about £900 last time I dumped all my change (it did take me 3 trips to do that though).

I've been struggling to find a decent wallet. Needs to hold 6-8 cards, cash (preferably without having to fold it first) and one of the cards needs to be isolated from the others so I can use it as contactless without the other cards interfering.

No idea if they do what you're after, but bellroy always seem to have a reasonably comprehensive wallet selection that might be worth a look?

I think I've looked at those online but they're not the cheapest and I've never seen them in the flesh so I've held off up till now.

I periodically spend a happy hour counting out my riches into coin bags then taking it down to the bank.

^ is one of my favourite jobs, and my scotch bottle of coins is about two weeks off being full. Last time (coming up 6 years ago) it was about £350 and bought a pushchair/car-seat for impending child. Also have a 2l vodka jar 2/3 full of just 5p coins.

I do mine by sorting and then digital kitchen scales, much quicker than counting each bag of coins individually.

I don't think banks can refuse to let you deposit large quantities of coins into your account as long as you've already bagged them up (reasonably accurately) and they're not busy.

I really like handling coins, but a friend of mine dpesn't, which I found out when I helped him move. He had masses of small change in plastic shopping bags. I can't remember what it came to in the end, but it was a lot. Ironically, he had always avoided using it to pay for things, which is how it had accumulated, but the local bank we went to didn't have a coin counting machine, so we had to count it all into those small plastic bags.

If you save 1p on day one, 2p on day two, etc, £1 on the 100th day and £3.65 on the last day you would save £667.95 in a year

Good grief, you public transport! What do you do to have your cards not knock each other out like mine do?

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Very infrequently! But if I don't have it with me at all times I wouldn't know where it was. Not sure what you mean by knock each other out - if you mean with the tapping, I'm living in the past and don't have a contactless card yet, so the only thing that'll beep is the oyster. If you mean loose cards falling out, the fold back clip on the end helps keep things together a bit.

Thinking about it probably should leave my Oyster at home.

I ordered one after seeing your link. Just arrived. It's pretty nice.