{"id":835,"date":"2011-11-22T08:08:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T08:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/?p=835"},"modified":"2023-11-04T15:21:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T15:21:16","slug":"every-day-carry-bag-contents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Every Day Carry Bag Contents"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"400\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/EDC_Med.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/EDC_Med.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><br \/><strong>All of this stuff lives in a bag that is very nearly always with me or at least no further than in my vehicle. There was a lot more crap in that bag than I remembered. Perhaps it&#8217;s time to pare things down a bit and upgrade from EDC Bag 1.0 to EDC Bag 1.1 with a little bit lighter load. <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saysuncle.com\/2011\/11\/21\/whats-in-your-bag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Say Uncle started it<\/a>. And being a good lemming, I&#8217;m following.<\/p>\n<p>Everything you can see in this photo fits in the bag (including the laptop, charger, etc.) and, for the most part, has a dedicated purpose. There is often a pistol and a few extra magazines tucked away inside as well. Laying it all out like this, it&#8217;s a lot more stuff than I realized.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve fallen into the trap usually reserved for large purses in my attempt to cram tons of stuff in there. Going through it, there seemed to be a fair amount of junk that needed to be tossed, along with some redundant items. There are a few things I probably should add to it as well.<\/p>\n<p>What all is inside of Bag 1.0?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laptop\n<li>Wireless trackball\n<li>Laptop charger\n<li>Ethernet cable (and spare)\n<li>iPhone charger (and 120v adapter)\n<li>Two external hard drives with USB adapters (should probably narrow this to one)\n<li>Thumb drive\n<li>Mini, Micro, and Type B USB cables\n<li>RCA to 3.5mm stero mini-cable\n<li>Handheld GPS\n<li>Twelve CR123A batteries\n<li>Surefire flashlight with Picatinny rail mount\n<li>S&#038;W folding knife\n<li>Esbit stove, with fuel\n<li>LED headlamp\n<li>Hairbrush\n<li>Scarf\n<li>Two sharpie markers\n<li>Pen\n<li>Pencil\n<li>Notebook\n<li>Compass\n<li>Lockpick set\n<li>Duct tape\n<li>Vinyl tape\n<li>100ft Paracord\n<li>AAA Batteries\n<li>Lighter\n<li>Ibuprofen\n<li>Diphenhydramine\n<li>Oxymetazoline hydrochloride spray\n<li>Pseudoephedrine\n<li>Cyanoacrylate\n<li>Saline spray\n<li>Res-Q-Pak with Quick-Clot\n<li>Foam ear plugs\n<li>Peltor ear plugs\n<li>Carmex lip balm\n<li>Padlock\n<li>Carabiner (25kN rating)\n<li>Two Grimloc keepers\n<li>Matches\n<li>Fork and spoon\n<li>Salt and pepper\n<li>Clif bar\n<li>Checkbooks\n<li>Dart set\n<li>Box cutter\n<li>P-38 &#8220;John Wayne&#8221; can opener<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of this stuff lives in a bag that is very nearly always with me or at least no further than in my vehicle. There was a lot more crap in that bag than I remembered. Perhaps it&#8217;s time to pare things down a bit and upgrade from EDC Bag 1.0 to EDC Bag 1.1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,79,36,78,31],"tags":[131,81,128,80],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-packs","category-every-day-carry","category-gear","category-survival-and-preparedness","category-tools","tag-day-packs","tag-edc","tag-gear","tag-preparedness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}