I got annoyed recently when I wanted to leave the house and noticed my bag was half full just with stuff to deal with weather. In Tokyo, I usually carry an umbrella with me, maybe sunscreen, sunglasses, a mini towel etc. Others have fans, “neck fans” (not sure how they are called). Maybe a water bottle also counts.
All of this is “weather stuff” for me. I asked a friend what she carries around, and we started to think about some other categories as well. So I wondered how much of the stuff we carry around is actually about the thing we want to do wherever we go, and how much is just to cope with the environment? Also, I would be curious how this looks like in other places around the world. Things probably vary by gender, age, season as well.
Some categories are:
- weather stuff
- personal hygiene stuff
- safety stuff
- not being annoyed by others stuff
- infrastructure fail stuff (e.g., preparing for when trains get delayed)
A bunny hug, keys, and phone/wallet combo. I’d carry less, but I’m already at the bare minimum.
Personally I think you are overdoing it OP.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/good-question-bunny-hug-1.7125965 explains what a bunny hug is: a word for hooded sweatshirt that people from Saskatchewan use.
Do you check the weather first? Are you really going to be outside enough on a day you need an umbrella to also need sunscreen?
Not sure where you live, but weather differs around this big bol we’re on. Days with 38°C during lunch break and massive rain during evening commute are not uncommon in Tokyo
You can use the umbrella on sunny days to protect yourself from direct sunlight.
I have a “mom” sized pocketbook that I carry around and it always has the following:
- Band aids, nail clipper, and aquaphor tube
- Eye drops
- Wallet, phone, keys
- Masks
- Earbuds
- Hand sanitizer
- Sunglasses
- Small fidget toy
- Folding hairbrush
- Hair ties
- Small sunscreen stick, chapstick
- Pen
- Set of plastic cutlery
- Pill case with some commonly needed pills like Tylenol, Claritin, etc
If it’s sunny I’ll bring a sun umbrella and a hat, both of which can fit in the bag in a pinch. If it’s raining, just the umbrella. It’s not a perfect system but some things (especially the band aids and fidget) come in handy pretty often
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My musts for going to work, which is about the only place I go really…
-Earbuds -contact lens case -glasses in case my contacts have an issue -eyedrops -blood glucose meter (am diabetic) -spare AM medication dose in case I forgot -gum -umbrella -water bottle
I usually have all this in a backpack. Sometimes I’ll have my switch with me, too. Or a book. Depends on my mood.
I bring sunglasses and an occasional sun hat. To protect the rest of my body from sunlight I just wear long sleeves.
I personally like carrying as little as possible
I don’t have any pockets on most of my outfits, but I have a holster on my left hip that holds my phone, my book reader, my wallet, my keys, and a glasses wipe.
I read a lot. But there’s also Slay the Spire on my phone.
(Also I guess I have bluetooth conductors basically permanently attached to my head so I can have music whenever I want, and a d20 ring on one finger, a wrist watch on a wrist, a pair of glasses to match an outfit, a pendant for the same, a hair tie in my hair, and a meter for a study. This is all automatic stuff though, and I just have this while I’m in my house.)
Since I’m in the US where public transportation is next to nonexistent outside of maybe 5 cities, I (and the overwhelming majority of Americans) are cheating since we can EDC a hell of a lot of things in our cars. My pockets have 3-4 items max, but I consider my vehicle my home away from home, and if I’m away from home more than a night I pack her to the gills.
Keys, right pocket. Wallet and phone, left pocket.
Done.
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Same, Ive reached the point where I’m almost always leaving the house with water umbrella sunglasses and towel. I used to be careless and leave with nothing… I feel old now
Nothing. My car has AC and I can buy cold water anywhere. There’s an umbrella in my car though.
Phone and house keys. I’m a 35 year old male from the UK. No need for anything else.
If I’m generally our and about, phone, wallet, keys, phone charging cable, a pen, anything else I need can be acquired as I need it.
It’s also functionally ECD is my backpack, mainly because I use it to carry my laptop with me wherever I’m likely to need it, like work, or class, or to carry a bunch of stuff like MtG decks for an MtG event, or clothes if I’m spending a night at a friend’s house.
I live in the US and its very car centric here. It’s rare that I’m ever more than a few minutes away from a source of water or food, I keep an umbrella in my car, it has AC to keep me cool, if it’s chilly out I wear a jacket.
Phone,keys, wallet generally. If its going to rain I bring an umbrella. If its hot I put in cream. If im bringing a bag I bring a bottle of water
Swede living in a suburb to Stockholm, 36 year old man, living alone.
Weather stuff:
I put an unbrella in my backpack during autumn, I wear a hat during winter.
I have sunglasses in my car and my new pair in my backpack, I wear regular glasses all the time.
If it is really hot I carry an insulated water bottle, on special occations I have carried a thermos flask with hot mulled wine (glögg) when it is around christmas, very cold and I won’t be driving.
Personal hygene:
Nothing really, well I have some paper towels in my car for emergency nature calls in the woods…
Safety stuff, nothing really, if I am going for a long trip, I will get some supplies, gloves, band aids, dressings, disinfectant, stuff like that.
Oh, as a bit of a planespotter, I allways have ear defenders in my car, as well as a big pack of extra ear plugs for any friend going with me who forgot their own hearing protection.
Annoyance filter, during autumn, winter and spring I allways carry my Bose QC35 II, suring summer I switch to some IEMs, currently using my Jabra Elite 3. I allways have my iPhone with me as well.
Infra fail stuff:
I carry my work phone to advice my work about delays, else my phone has all apps I need, finally I have biked from the suburbs to the center of Stockholm and back again, so I know my way around, should all public transport fail and I can’t get a taxi, I would just start walking.
It would probably take 3-4h to get home, but I’d get there
