Three Most Important Items in Your EDC

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What're the three most important items in an EDC?

I'd have to say that my three are a folding knife, a Zippo, and some line.
 
Obviously, it depends on what you do every day. For me, it's a knife and a pen, and I guess a smartphone. I really don't need anything else in my pockets for my job, and I have emergency supplies in my desk at work, my car, and at home. I'm almost never farther than a 15 minute walk from one of those.
 
In "an edc", I carry what I use; knife (sak), smartphone, and pens. Headed to the woods would be somewhat different.
 
Knife, pen and flashlight (mobile phone, keychain with little tools, wallet with handy wipe & bandaid).
 
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fisheater said:
What're the three most important items in an EDC?
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For my every day? Phone, Wallet, Keys. The only 3 things that I need with me everyday.

Now I do carry my outdoor pack most places (I leave it in my car if I'm not bringing it to wherever I'm going).
It has: a few lighters, butane, a few knives, magnesium+ferro rod, external battery, flashlight, chapstick, usb stick, gopro camera, a pen, small notebook, paracord, small carabiner, beach towel, and sometimes a walkie.
 
amg137 said:
Obviously, it depends on what you do every day. For me, it's a knife and a pen, and I guess a smartphone. I really don't need anything else in my pockets for my job, and I have emergency supplies in my desk at work, my car, and at home. I'm almost never farther than a 15 minute walk from one of those.
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I would like to know what you consider emergency supplies, or if you just use the general/basic emergency kits offered at different websites...
 
InternetDominus said:
I would like to know what you consider emergency supplies, or if you just use the general/basic emergency kits offered at different websites...
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Let's see... In my desk right now I have: an Altoids tin first aid kit (just the basics, we have full trauma kits across the lab), a gallon of water, some snacks that I cycle through regularly, a lighter, and a flashlight. And really, that's major overkill - all I really need is the ability to patch myself up and get out of the building in the event of a substantial earthquake. If there's a building collapse I'm all sorts of screwed no matter how prepared I am, as there's a synthetic chemistry lab directly above me. From there I can walk home in about 15 minutes; I only drive to work at most once a week.

My car has a couple cases of bottled water, a KaBar USMC, 100 ft of paracord, some snacks, first aid kit, and a lighter. Seeing as I rarely drive anywhere, I'm not too concerned about having an apocalypse kit at the ready in the car.

In my apartment I have my backpack all packed up and ready to go, set up for base camp style backpacking (about 50 lbs of gear). A week's worth of freeze dried food, backpacking stove, fixed blades, tent, sleeping bag/pad, paracord, fire starting materials, water filtration, etc. I also generally have one week minimum of normal food in the apartment, 5+ gallons of water, a big first aid kit, guns, and a decent stock of ammo.

It's probably more than I need in a realistic emergency scenario, but I don't have any gear I don't use (except for a few safe queen knives, I suppose). The backpacking kit gets used a couple times a year, and I don't lose anything by keeping it stocked and ready to go. I bought the guns for the range, not emergencies - but they're nice to have if I ever need them.
 
A fero rod on the keychain. I used to have this and that with the keys but it got tiresome. A three second evaluation of were I will be that day generally determines what I add to belt or pocket.
 
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