So much of EDC seems to be centered around either surviving alone in the woods for days or alternatively using your tactical pen to stab a terrorist to death and John McClane the building. I’m John Suburban and my EDC includes a gun, a ferrorod and a tacpen with built in seatbelt slicer and window breaker (none of which I ever trained to use, but am assured will use competently after a flip over car crash into a body of water).
Which is a shame, because I think EDC stuff is cool. Little nifty tools! What do the denizens of this here website chapo.chat like for non chud EDC applications?
I’ll start off with some favourites,
- a small AA-powered flashlight by EOLite (self-explanatory I think)
- a Gerber Dime (basically one of those small swiss army knives but the pliers are a nice touch for a lot of things, like not touching the garbage juice)
- a keychain presta-to-schrader adapter to reinflate my bicycle tyres at any given gas station, should the need arise
Currently also building a bicycle EDC-Pouch where space isn’t limited to pocket size, would love to hear what other people use.
One essential item I can’t be without that I rarely see other people carry- a nail clipper. I have constant hangnails and it can ruin my day if I need them trimmed but lack a clipper. And biting them off only makes it worse.
I usually just use the small scissors on whatever multitool I’m carrying and that seems to work for me. I think Victorinox even advertises theirs as nail scissors