How Much Do You Really Use "Everyday"

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I'm using every part of this

So, you carry a Zippo now?

Good point, actually. I hadn't really thought about that. I guess the BIC lighters are like their ballpoint pen counterparts in that aspect.

Yes, but with a penalty. Zippos need rocket fuel to keep the wick wet, so every week when you refill that cotton stuffed reservoir, some fluid always creeps out of the lighter while it's in your pocket and the wet fabric gives you a hot spot on your leg. Very annoying. Lots of guys got to carrying Zippo holsters on that account, but somehow I always thought that would be cheating (don't ask, I have no idea). Put up with it anyway because Bics were really frustrating in any kind of breeze.

Anyway, it's all in the past, been many years since I lit up last.

That's the correct answer right there.

Wife made me some pasta for lunch. Hours pass by and i'm getting pretty hungry at work.
I go to get my pasta and nuke it a bit. Smells so good. Walk outside to eat like i always do unless its raining.
I sit down and then i quickly realize, I have no work!!!!!!!!!!!

Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

I open my Sitka and look in one of my snack bag and use enough there is a Eat N Tool there, Awesome!!

My lunch is saved!!! Eat, enjoy the view outside, finish up, clean my tool and go back inside,

into the chaos I go.

Everything I carry gets used every day. I posted this pic in my intro thread and my least used item was the MUT at 3 times today and the phone at 50-60 times between calls and email.

Everything that I carry daily gets used daily including my wallet which I wish didn't get used on a daily basis.

All of my stuff gets used everyday except my Ti Gecko Parrot from JSBurly's which is used probably 5 times a week. Also my Paracord isn't used.


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I use every thing that I carry on my person every day of the week.

Generally the contents of my pockets are:

Small light - Either Microstream or LED Lenser P3 AFS P
Buck Vantage Select
Either LM Micra or Vic Classic
Fisher Bullet
Gerber EAB
Wallet
Phone
Spare AAA Battery in 5th pocket

i find excuses to you most of my stuff every day. dosnt mean i actually NEED all of it everday.......but if its on my, i look for reasons to use it

big honking ditto.
i despise being the helpless person..the person who NEEDS the bandaid or the pen or the hair elastic.

I move from various situation somedays and i never know what i will need.
other days, like today i sit here on my backside

One time i was asked to jury rig a holder for a filter for an anesthesia machine, i used an empty plastic jug, 4 large paperclips and my leatherman micro scissors and my SAK with the hole punch.

ChrisEMT, I get where you're going with this, and I think you're right. A lot of people carry things that they don't really need all the time. Personally, I really wouldn't want to walk around with some kind of holster on my belt with all sorts of tools and gadgets in it. But, depending on where a person lives and what they come in contact with on a daily basis, I suppose it can't hurt to carry some of it. I know that what I carry are things that either are sentimental to me (my challenge coin) or things I really do stand a chance on using or regularly use everyday (SOG Flash II, Leatherman Juice S2).

I honestly have no need to carry more than two knives. And one of them is for scissors.
I don't HAVE to carry a flashlight. Unlike OTR, hot shot is pretty much daytime (at least for me)

I love the feeling when you get your LM Juice out and solve someones problem and you're like WWWWPSHHHHHH thank you very much.

Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside lol.

I can say with conviction that I use my iPhone, cheapie ballpoint pen, and 4Sevens Quark 123 flashlight every single day.

Most days, I find a use for my knife (a Benchmade 943 today) and Moleskine notebook.

I've only ever had to pull out my pepper spray once, and I hope to never be forced to draw my handgun (S&W M&P9c).