I have a steady regimen of things in my pockets. In fact, I grab all the stuff from yesterdays pockets and transfer it to my new pants.
Here goes:
Right front pocket:
A small coleman knife, about two inches. Always useful.
A pen.
A small notepad with which to jot notes.
Left front pocket:
My swiss army pocket watch.
Back right pocket:
My wallet.
Back left pocket:
Reserved for change, which I dump at the end of the day.
That’s the system. It never changes.
Not much. Usually a tissue; and on difficult days the visual cue cards for one of the kindergarteners with autism. I’m with minlokwat, I’d rather have nothing in them at all.
I never carry anything in my back pockets, because I like to sit down and I don’t like crushing my stuff or sharp pains in my buttocks.
Anyway, in my front left pocket I carry my electronic organizer, and in my right pocket go my pens, as well as my calculator if I’m at school. In my coat pockets go my chewing gum, chapstick, assorted garbage I had no other convenient place to put, and a substantial amount of money (about $50 or $60). I keep meaning to put my money someplace safe, but I never seem to get around to it. In the two or three months where it’s not cold enough to wear my coat, I’ll keep about $3-$5 in one of my pockets if I’m wandering about.
Um… right now I have keys, my wallet, food, tissues, money, pens, paper, weird bits of plastic and some paperclips.
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[li]Left front: keys and when wearing dress pants, change[/li][li]Right front: Zippo and pocket knife. If jeans, change in the watch pocket[/li][li]Right rear: wallet, comb, pen[/li][li]Left rear: usually empty, sometimes the checkbook[/li][/list=1]
I’ll leave jacket pockets for another time…
I don’t intentionally put anything in my pockets but this is what usually ends up in them:
used up tissue wads
candy wrappers
pennies
hair elastics
food bits like pretzels and raisins
spare binkies
grocery receipts
all provided by my two lil girls during the course of the day.
During the workday, my chapstick, lipstick, or lip gloss goes in my right front pocket with my classroom key. If I have spare change, it goes in my left pocket. Nothing in backpockets.
At night, if I’m going somewhere without my canvas bag, then same in right front pocket but trade my classroom key for my car keys. Back pocket gets my change purse and cell phone neatly side by side. I never ever ever ever put anything in the left back pocket. ::shudder::
Car keys, cell phone, and wallet normally go in my canvas bag though, in their proper places.
Cartooniverse, just who is stopping you?
Seriously, you have the cop-out options of a small backpack (informal) or a briefcase (formal); or the all-out going and buying yourself a nice manly-looking bag (I’d suggest a messenger bag). You may also, depending on your size and bearing, need to cultivate a stern expression and a good saying such as “It’s in case I happen to have any severed heads to carry around” if you feel the need to explain it.
Goodness, it’s not like shoulder bags just fit on the breast-bearing versions of H. sapiens, or something. 
Corr
I cut the bottoms out of my pockets so when I go for a walk I have something,mm, constructive to do with my hands.
Mongo like construction!
Nyah, nyah, beatcha to it… 
Oh my gosh, what a delightful tongue lashing. In my life, until the last month or so, I was ALWAYS working in a NON-SECURED area…the street…some set somewhere. I do indeed carry a huge shoulder bag, and in it are an amazing array of contents that were once catalogued here in some thread where people asked what you carried in your shoulderbag.
That’s not the point. The point was that it’s the equivalent of a purse, because it stays WITH me as I move. My shoulder bag is simply too big and heavy ( laptop, etc ) to keep with me as I go. Now that I no longer have those careers, I tend to leave the fanny pouch IN the shoulder bag, and just stuff about three dollars in my pocket, and wear my chalk holder around my neck on my lanyard, along with my Substitute ID and a mini krypton flashlight…
So, yes I do have a real bag. I’m not afraid to use it. But it’s not a pocketbook, or the kind of thing that many European men carry. I ought to start carrying one. 
However, since your post count hints that you are fairly new to these parts, let me tell you that I have no issues with looking or not looking “manly”. It was an issue of finding a bag I was happy with, not one that appeared to be swiped from my mommy’s dresser.
Any Euro Men wanna help out a Doper with one of those nice black leather handbags?
And, last but not least, I’m so very fond of breast-bearing homosapiens. I surely wasn’t besmirching their fashion sense…
Cartooniverse, not overly manly but surely all man :eek:
Man I hate it when my “stuff” gets crushed…and sharp pains in my butt…don’t even go there.
Couldn’t resist.
But seriously, I have a small pocket knife in the left front, currency only in right front. No damned change ever, that goes in the ashtray if driving, in my desk if working, and to the kids if at home. Wallet in back right pocket.
left front: keys (truck, beetle, house, etc. w/ Leatherman Micra)
right front: black plastic ACE comb, change, cell phone in leather case, clip turned to the outside (when no shirt pocket, in jeans only)
left rear: wallet
right rear: checkbook
I usually have in my pockets ink pens, gum, scrap paper. and some change, or a couple of singles.
I put change in my pockets. After a while, I collect that change from the floorboard of my car, where it has fallen out.
Stupid Dockers…
Left front pocket, my house keys and my money clip.
Left hip pocket, nothing.
Right hip pocket, wallet.
Right front pocket, it depends. Well, I always keep my loose change there, if I have any. But I used to keep my car keys there when I wasn’t working. We only have one car key now, and we leave it hanging on a hook until one of us needs it. When I’m working I clip my truck keys to my belt.
“I got a little change in my pocket goin’ jing-a-ling-a-ling…”
Left front: cash, folded in half, in a clip, and a small pocket knife.
Right front: keys and change.
Right rear: wallet (never any cash in the wallet).
Left rear: usually nothing, but checkbook if needed.
Jeans: same, except change in the watch pocket.
I hate that feeling of having frontal loaded pockets! It’s like you walk around like your in a Terminator movie war scene with canteen’s and flares and keys and change and all kinds of crap bulging out like Arnold’s quads!
Back right ass pocket for the wallet that’s it. I’ve actually tried to find the thinnest wallet made knowing full well that when I find it it fattens up to a bulky sized monstrosity due to c.cards health cards, movie rental cards, etc. Can’t win!!!
Gotta have Cinnamon Trident in the front left pocket, that’s understandable.
Hardly anything in the pockets. Make’s those Pick pocketers
go on unemployment!!!
Left front: Keys and pocketknife (and usually a half-dozen pens I accumulate during the day).
Right front: Money clip and change.
Right rear: Wallet and comb.
And thank God for whoever came up with the idea of cargo pants and cargo shorts – when I wear those, I’ve got extra pockets so I can carry my Visor and my cellphone with me.
In my pants, wallet, some quarters and chapstick.
In my coat, change, a frw dollars, candy and a screwdriver.