I keep a knife in my glove compartment just to open shit I may have bought, I keep a bunch of lighters there too for no good reason. On me I generally stick to cell phone, wallet, and keychain, though the keychain has a USB key and bottle opener on it.
I wear cargo pants most of the time so I keep the following stuff on me in their assigned pockets: Keys Wallet ipod rescue inhaler chapstick smart phone USB charging cables for ipod and phone And until it broke, a bluetooth headset in my coat.
I think you might be doing it wrong. As for me, I keep it pretty simple. Blackberry, wallet, folding knife and keys.
I work in the city, use public transpo and I leave my apartment at 7:00am and don't return till 10:00pm so I carry all sorts of stuff in a lumbar pack that I converted into a messenger bag. Some of the things I always carry during the work week are a travel mug, water bottle, multitool, phones, kindle, flashlight, laptop, meds, iPod, etc. Around here a refill on a travel mug in the afternoon is $.50 and most places will refill your water bottle for free. Doesn't seem like much but it adds up. I used to carry a backpack around but then I had so much shit in that pack for what I thought daily use it was silly.
I'm actually tempted to buy a 'Jack Sack'. I do find that a lot of times just walking from my car to my office building I've got a handful of stuff (iPad, phone charger, cup of coffee, etc). I also prefer to have as little as possible in my pockets. I figure as long as I keep it as non-gay/non-hipster as possible, I'm good...right? Also, a little off topic, but this thread has made me think that I need to get a new knife. I used to have a simple locking knife that mostly sat on my desk, but I found that it came in pretty handy all the time. However, it was a really cheap knife that I had picked up for like $10-15 in a little gift shop on our way to Colorado. Cutting(pun!) to the chase, can anyone suggest a decent locking knife (I think that's what they are called) that is good enough quality to last a while without being too expensive?
I've carried a messenger bag since around 9th grade or so. I still carry one on a pretty regular basis. I'm not sure whose argument that goes towards proving.
Went to Costco yesterday to pick up some stuff, and they had a Snap-On multi-pack that I couldn't resist. Had a flashlight, a key-fob multi-tool with LED light, a large leatherman-like multi-tool, a small multi-tool, and a folding box cutter. All for about $24 Couldn't help it... picked up 2 of them.