Carry for the new year

I've spent the past few months settling on my standard carry, so I thought I would lock it in with my first post.

Starting with wallet and contents:

Pouch: Onetigris pocket pouch – hits the right balance for me of pocketability and a bit of extra storage than a standard wallet.

Knife: No idea of the make… My old man gave this to me instead of the samurai sword I asked for when he visited a blacksmith in Japan. Ah well. It fits well in the pouch and has vanquished every Amazon package I've pit it against.

Torch: Reylight pineapple mini – this torch finally made me understand what the flashlight nerds mean when they go on about "high CRI". It's got the intensity of a modern LED with the warmth of an old mag light. Probably the closest I'll get to the light of a Silmaril.

Coin: Some cheapy fb told me to buy – I got these for my team after we finished a SIS design/install project at the power station where I work. The project was a bit of a shitfight and it's a good reminder that I'm an engineer not a PM…

Bottle opener: The returns from my "investment" in a local brewery. Yup, I know. Good reminder of my poor financial decisions that also helps open beer bottles. Learn from me.

Gift card: I don't mean to flex my $75 mitre 10 gift card on y'all but it's just a good scale for the pouch and lets be real, it will probably be a legit EDC as a pit it in my wallet and forget it exists for a year.

Aldi coin: absolutely essential. Enough said.

For the key fob there's not much to report. But as a father of three boys under 5, that John Deere has gotten me out of a few jams.

Honourable mentions as they aren't carried
all the time, but are fairly regular:

Journal: lochby mini field journal – this is probably the part of my kit that I'm most undecided on. The journal is great but it definitely is not comfortably pocketable so it kind of undermines the whole point for me. High likelihood I'll switch back to the plain old field notes eventually.

Pen: rotring 600 3 in 1

Handheld: miyoo mini plus. Because I'm a grown ass man who likes to play with my Pokemons.

Not pictured: water bottle – because I have that millennial thing of getting a twinge of anxiety if I don't have ready access to a source of hydration at all times.