# What do you carry on you everyday? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168 "2001-12-06T03:44:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Civil\_Defense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Civil\_Defense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Defense)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/1 "2001-12-06T03:44:13Z")
Ladies, empty your purses. Gentlemen, turn out your coat pockets. [sub](Whoever has the gun is the murderer.)[/sub] Me? I have car keys in my left pocket, along with some spare change. In my right pocket, my cellphone (only because sitting with the belt clip is kinda uncomfortable). In my “cargo pocket” I have my checkbook. Back pocket, wallet. What about you? ---
**Author:** ![moronmountain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@moronmountain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moronmountain)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/2 "2001-12-06T03:51:12Z")
If I were not in pj’s (it is getting late-ish here on the east coast), I would have: [sub]UniBall .5mm Medium-tip Black ink pen in my right pocket 3.5" 1.44 Megabyte floppy disk in my left pocket No Fear leather wallet in back right pocket with chain on front right belt-loop[/sub] I travel light 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/3 "2001-12-06T03:52:45Z")
In mr pants pockets, I have a wallet with $117 dollars in it. In my coat I have 19 quarters, Altoids, dental wax, and chapstick. ---
**Author:** ![Kbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Kbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kbean)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/4 "2001-12-06T04:00:11Z")
Black uniball fine tipped pen, medicated chapstick, and usually 50 cents or so for snack machines at school. ---
**Author:** ![moronmountain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@moronmountain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moronmountain)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/5 "2001-12-06T04:02:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mudshark \* > **In mr pants pockets, I have a wallet with $117 dollars in it.** Damn you…you made me count…$110. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/6 "2001-12-06T04:08:26Z")
Keys right front. Black pen left front. Change when I get some, I leave the apt every day without any. Wallet left rear. Daytimer in hand. With checkbook inside. That sums up the every day stuff. Cell phone right hip, but not every day. ---
**Author:** ![spheric\_thor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@spheric\_thor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spheric_thor)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/7 "2001-12-06T04:13:39Z")
Front left- keys Front right-cash and change Back left-wallet and usually a utility knife and pencil Back right-empty ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/8 "2001-12-06T04:15:19Z")
I never leave the house without my housekeys, Metrocard, lip balm, and wallet. I’ve forgotten each of those things at least once and regretted it. Taking a train: add something to read. Going to work: add building ID, day planner, and usually lunch. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/9 "2001-12-06T04:18:39Z")
Used to be I carried everything in my pockets, but now **Gunslinger** ’s bought me a purse, so: Right front pocket: Swiss Army knife (which was also a gift from Gun) Left front pocket: MS State credential holder thingy, with my school ID, a phone card, and a piece of paper with emergency phone numbers in it. It has an attached keyring, which holds my dorm key, my PO box key, and a keychain Gun made me with a picture of him in it. Purse - main pocket: wallet holding $5 cash, credit card, check card, and a bunch of photos and business cards. front pocket: chapstick, breathmints pocket on the front flap: change, little flat folding knife ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/10 "2001-12-06T04:18:39Z")
Well, I checked and I don’t have to update my post from [what have you got in your pockets](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=19125) (although I’m still–or now more than ever–tempted to answer something about my precioussss). ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/11 "2001-12-06T04:20:26Z")
Wallet containing mostly change Keys Pocket watch, so I can flip it open and attempt to look suave when others are watching Battered old Swiss army knife - usefull for sharpening pencils in class when there isn’t a pencil sharpener Spare hair thingy - you know, the elastic thingies that hold hair up, like in a ponytail ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/12 "2001-12-06T04:53:26Z")
left front jeans pocket: keyring (car, house, mom’s car, locker padlock, Buweiser promo bottle-and-can-opener fob), change when I have any. rfjp: knife (lately I’ve been carrying a Victorinox Recruit, same as the one I gave **racinchikki** ). lrjp: nothing rrjp: wallet (cash, a few checks, checkcard, gas credit cards, ID) little coin/watch pocket of jeans: box cutter, when I’m at work. on belt or in inside pocket of jacket: cellphone ---
**Author:** ![Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/13 "2001-12-06T04:57:04Z")
Front Left - Keys Front Right - Loonies,Twonies, and Quarters Back Right - Wallet Back Left - Empty Right Hip - Cell phone on belt clip. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/14 "2001-12-06T05:17:30Z")
Geekdom at it’s finest: Regularly Right front pocket: Bill cash, in a clip my father gave me. Right belt loop: Utility pouch with: Leatherman, Paint can/bottle tool, handheld laser, one Mini-Maglite, sometimes one GPS reciever; One Benchmade folding knife . Right rear pocket: Wallet with DLs, CCards, and ID Left rear: Not much Left belt loop: Cell phone. Right front: Pockect change, small change. Tripler I keep my hat in my cargo pockets. ---
**Author:** ![Kalashnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/15 "2001-12-06T05:39:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Civil Defense \* > \*\* > [sub](Whoever has the gun is the murderer.)[/sub] > \*\* Smile when you say that, pardner… ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/16 "2001-12-06T05:41:42Z")
Benchmade Striker (pocket knife)in the right pocket, Money clip in the back pocket. About $11 in the clip, if you must know. –==the sax man==– ---
**Author:** ![VeraGemini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e9bcb4/32.png) [@VeraGemini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VeraGemini)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/17 "2001-12-06T06:33:40Z")
Purse: Wallet, Cover Girl powder compact, lipstick, mini hairbrush, clear nail polish, pocket pack Kleenex, nail glue, emery board, nail clippers, one roll Butter Rum Lifesavers, small vial of ibuprofen, bandaids, cigarettes, lighter, Palm Pilot, Leatherman, mag light, laser pointer, cel phone, one PS2-to-USB adapter that the cat has chewed on, one RJ-45 end, pepper spray, cel phone, sunglasses, ballpoint pen, $3.78 in loose change, and an old grocery store receipt with some numbers written on it that I can’t remember for the life of me what they were for. And I can’t believe I just dumped all that out to make a message board post 😉 ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/18 "2001-12-06T06:36:15Z")
Wallet (homemade out of duct tape) and lipgloss (lip smackers roll-on strawberry slush). Keys (one key on a mini zip disk key chain) if I am feeling responsible. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/19 "2001-12-06T06:40:11Z")
_Left front pants pocket:_ [li] Vintage Mountaineer model Victorinox Swiss Army knife[/li] [li] Key ring with Maglite solitaire attached[/li]_Right front pants pocket:_ [li] Change[/li] [li] Wallet, currently containing $283.[sup]00[/sup] of spending money, various health plan cards, a Taiwanese telephone card, Social Security card, CA driver’s license, business cards, calling cards, address book and my secret stash of $122.[sup]00[/sup] consisting of a $100.[sup]00[/sup] bill that was a cash bonus from my job in 1995 that I refuse to spend on principal, the first dollar bills from a public performance tip jar and a $20.[sup]00[/sup] bill from one of my first paying musical gigs.[/li]_Watch pocket:_ [li] 1940’s Waltham pocket watch.[/li]_Back left pocket:_ [li] Ace pocket comb[/li]_Shirt breast pocket:_ [li] 14K Gold Cross pen and pencil set[/li]_Sunglasses:_ [li] Double large size gold frame photochromic Ray Ban aviators[/li]_Hat:_ Royal Stetson “Caribou Downs” black Fedora ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168/20 "2001-12-06T06:42:46Z")
This is too much work. But one of the things I always carry is my Sensa pen! 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-carry-on-you-everyday/97168.md?page=2)