Something I'm not seeing here that is absolutely essential is a good flashlight.

Human beings can't do shit in the dark. Useful for power outages, dark areas, and if gets late. I end up using it more than my knife tbh.

Probably the most unique thing is a Garmin watch w/ a built in flashlight. Which as someone not willing to carry an actual flashlight because I know I'll never both to take it out of my pocket 90% when I need it I find very useful. More smart watches should pick up the feature.

Right pocket: Sunbeam F1 flip phone, space pen, moleskin notebook

Left pocket: rotates between Arduboy, Moaan eReader, Flipper Zero, or Rabbit R1

Rear right: wallet (containing car keycard)

Attached to belt: Ricoh GRIII camera

Phone, wallet, keys, 5 USB flash drives of various uses, sharpie, kershaw knife, multitool: I recommend the wave plus with bit kit and ratchet driver from leatherman, ChapStick, and lastly Glock 43x. Plus I usually tote a backpack around and that's a large list of goodies most people are shocked I use often. 32 oz insulated stainless tumbler and medication. If anyone has travel bag suggestions that's easy to carry unlike a backpack please speak up! Links are appreciated.

Cell phone, a roll dog poop bags.

My phone has a couple RFID stickers that I've cloned my home & work access cards onto. I use tap to pay so I rarely need my wallet.

I like to carry as little as possible, unlike many here.

Good question! I always carry the vague sense that I've forgotten something.

I carry my phone, ear buds, keys, wallet, a small pocket knife, and the ghosts of my past.

My keychain

• Car key
• House key
• Community mailbox key
• Chipolo One Point
• A Geekey-like tool (found a cheap copycat on Amazon)
• SIM tray eject tool
• Yubikey 5C NFC

My wallet (Slim Fold Micro)

• 1 credit card
• 1 debit card
• $20 cash for emergencies
• health insurance card
• driver's license
• public transportation card
• veteran card

Other

• SafeX Mini Box Cutter
• Smartphone (Pixel 7 Pro)
• Cheap-ass bluetooth earphones
• Work security badge

Except for the obvious ones (keys, id, phone) I always carry a USB C to C cable and a small bag with pretty much every USB adaptor I could find. The point is to be able to connect anything to anything. It sounds a bit weird but I've used it a lot. There is also a USB stick with 3-4 live OSes through Ventoy but that one isn't as useful.

Phone: It’s iphone mini because fuck bigger phones

Card holder style wallet- only needs to hold a few cards so don’t need anything bulky: Bank card, drivers licence, Medicare card, construction induction card, myki card for public transport

Keys on carabiner: Car key, house key, mini screwdriver

My weird thing is I always carry fingernail clippers. I started doing it because I have a bad habit of picking at my cuticles, and it helps to keep my nails trimmed. I've learned that it's a weirdly useful tool, though. It can cut things in a pinch, but no one sees it as something dangerous needing to be confiscated for example.

I carry a thin fabric zippered wallet in a front pocket along with my keys.

I have a set of keys for each car. Each set has a tracker and house key.

And a phone in the opposite front pocket.

And an Apple Watch.

That’s it. That’s all I carry. And nothing goes in a back pocket to sit awkwardly on.

Small leather wallet, iPhone 13 Mini, carabiner on belt loop with keys and small Swiss Army knife, Nalgene.

Flipside 4 wallet, put a clip on the lanyard to clip to my shorts so doesn't slip out of my pocket. I had a custom thin RFID made that I slipped between the outside of the lid's rfid-blocking plate and the plastic lid itself to get into my apt building's various doors. Wallet has all my cards and key, and cash for the rare times I have it.

I always carry a victorinox classic sd sak with a big orange Paracord lanyard on it so I don't lose track of it. It's black and limited edition with a cool skeleton carrying a Halloween bucket graphic.

I carry a Spyderco manbug as well, good slicer, small unscary size. Has super blue steel, so cool patina near the edge. I have a clip on that as well so doesn't fall out of my shorts pocket.

I have a modified Leatherman style ps as well, removed the scissors (scissors better on the sak anyways) and added a little titanium prybar that has a sharp enough edge for opening packages. That has a carabineer-style clip that clips on edge of my pocket.

I wear an apple watch ultra, good for apple pay, timers/alarms and texts. Siri to check stuff like sports scores in a pinch. Negates me needing actual phone, I tend to leave iPhone 13 mini in a cheap Etsy "Arnie" case (cameras are barrels of gun from that movie Commando) at home, unless I feel like I'll need the entertainment of f'ing with my phone wherever I'm going

I wear wedding ring out always, bracelet my wife made me often, next to the apple watch. Often have a mechanical wrist watch on other wrist, varies which (have a collection.) I often wear a couple/few Happy Beads bracelets with the mechanical watch to put the finishing touches.

Vast majority of the time I'm just wearing sandals, shorts & T-shirt (I work from home).

The above is my unique and probably awful/questionable taste, more of an admission than edc and/or fashion advice 😂😢

It depends a bit on what bags I carry, what kinda pockets I have, what my needs are for that specific trip and what temperature it is.

Front right:

• keys (2 house keys, 2 USB thumb drives, some decorative key fobs and a carabinier to attatch my bike lock key that needs to be inside the lock while riding)
• 1 or 2 lighters
• tobacco, filter and papers for rolling cigarettes (when I'm wearing a shirt with front a pocket, the rolling stuff goes there)
• anything that's able to scratch my phone screen

Front left:

• phone (pixel 5)
• wallet (random leather wallet from amazon, that held up surprisingly well over the past ~5 years)

In my backpack for longer transit/going to the park etc:

• wallet in the backpack now
• headphones (bluetooth IEMs)
• whatever novel I'm currently reading
• umbrella
• water bottle
• a backup reusable shopping bag
• flashlight (some cheap USB rechargeable LED light with both a focused beam and a bigger LED in the handle for illuminating larger spaces)
• sometimes rolling stuff for joints inside a waist bag

When grocery shopping:

• other, bigger backpack with several reusable shopping bags

When its hot:

• a towel that I often just tuck in my pants a bit so it can dry better while hanging from my waist, when dry I usually keep it in my front left pocket
• usually also a folding hand-held fan, in my backpack when I happen to carry it, otherwise front right pocket

When I go out but don't want to carry my backpack I put the following inside the waist bag and carry that across my chest:

• cigarette rolling stuff, unless I've got a front pocket on my shirt
• sometimes also joint rolling stuff
• keys
• wallet
• usually headphones

Idk if this much detail was wanted but here you go lol

Sony Xperia 5 III (has headphone jack) with LineageOS for microG. Shanling Q1 DAP/DAC. My everyday IEMs I take out of the house are Truthear Nova. I have a 10-year-old Ridge wallet & a mound of coins in the other pocket. Motorbike keys have nothing special other than an OnlyKey for TOTP/FIDO2.

I treat my cargo shorts like a purse.

Phone in one pocket

Wallet in a side pocket. Started doing this on a vacation in a foreign city to be less pick-pocketable, and turns out I love it.

Another pocket contains a fuckload of little stuff. Earbuds, lip balm, contact solution eyedrops, weed pen, breath spray, car key, set of house keys and some others in a folding keyring to which I have also attached my eBike battery key and eBike lock key.

Oil-absorbing paper in another pocket, great for keeping the adult acne at bay.

Cargo shorts make me a card-carrying member of the Dork Squad, but damn do I love them. I can even fit my Switch in there if I want to.

Back in the beforetimes I had a fairly long commute to work, I pretty much had to rely on what I could carry with me, so I had a rather significant EDC which included several tools, utilities, comforts, conveniences and PPE between my pants pockets and my laptop bag. Now I don't even carry a Leatherman with me and when I do leave the house it's just keys-wallet-phone.

Wallet, keys, phone, smart watch if I'm going somewhere.

If not, just phone and watch.