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What Do You Carry With You?

The "ideal bag for a mobile life style" raises the question, what tools do you carry with you?

It varies by what tools are necessary for you to do whatever it is you do, of course, but I think it's an interesting question.

I have two bags -- one small purse and the bag that carries my laptop. My purse can go in the laptop bag, or if I don't take my laptop, go alone. I'm going to list what I always carry with me after I do an inventory.

Anybody else?

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I travel pretty light, but...

I travel pretty light, but here's what I carry...

Left front pocket: Wallet -- sounds weird, but I had my pocket picked when I was in junior high and lost my wallet (got the contents back a year later, a buddy of mine found it all in a sewer gutter -- never got the wallet back), so I've carried it up front ever since -- and 1-2 pens (G-2 or UniBall Signo)

Right front pocket: Keys, Kyocera cellphone

Left back pocket: Hipster PDA

Right Back pocket: bandanna hankerchief or 1-2 small plastic bags (for when I take my dog Maddy outside -- city ordinances and all that)

 
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