Emptying my pockets

Nov 12, 2014 12:36

Clutch purse:
Keys (keychain includes a whistle and a micro light)
Official use phone
Personal use phone
Man's wallet (no checkbook)
Neo to Go
Nail clippers
32g thumb drive
Reading glasses
Lipstick
Desk keys
Watch
Tiny Leatherman multi-tool
Kleenex packet
Hairbrush

Backpack:

Main compartment:
Official use laptop
7" personal use tablet
Folding umbrella
First Aid kit
Wrecking bar (what? it's for light search and rescue)
Combination lock for the gym, if I ever go again
Water bottle in a compartment on the side

Top side pocket:
Lint roller
More reading glasses
External battery
Ear buds
Micro USB cable that charges all small electronics
Hand sanitizer
Compass
Packet of moist wipes

Bottom pocket:
Small first aid kit like you get at the drug store
SOL survival kit
Second Micro USB cable with wall adapter
ANOTHER spare pair of reading glasses
Backup lipstick, neutral shade
Leatherman Wingman
Bandana
Mirror
Spare house and car keys
Gas mask wannabe (What? I live near the CDC and a military base.)
Penlight

Pocket organizer (wanders around the pack a lot)
Lip balm
Tiny pen light
Screwdriver
Tide Pen
Eyeliner (WTF mascara? where did you go???)
pocket notepad
Super glue
Fresnel lens
Tool logic survival thingie

Laid out like that, some of the stuff looks kinda paranoid, but I'd rather feel foolish for having it than trapped for not. ;)

Anyway, what brought this on was the clutch purse discussion from yesterday. I've migrated from a normal woman's purse (no link, it's no long made) to a smallish sling bag that would hold my tablet and "a few other things," to a medium sling bag to realizing that sling bags carried as purses looked HORRIBLE (at least the nigh-indestructable tactical ones do, and nigh-indestructable is a necessity for me;) to carrying a Serious Backpack and a clutch. Backpack stays on my desk at work or in the car when I'm out and about (should probably move the spare car key to the clutch, come to think of it) so I have access to all the gear without looking like a pack mule when I'm out and about.

How about y'all? Any interesting purse wars you've been through trying to manage all your stuff?

conspicuous consumption, preparedness

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