{"items": [{"author": "Joshua", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642228771272", "anchor": "fb-642228771272", "service": "fb", "text": "a ring?", "timestamp": "1387836128"}, {"author": "Tanner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642228831152", "anchor": "fb-642228831152", "service": "fb", "text": "www.reddit.com/r/edc", "timestamp": "1387836167"}, {"author": "cbr", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#ce8rqbp", "anchor": "r-ce8rqbp", "service": "r", "text": "The rightmost two columns are pockets, the rest is the contents of my backpack.\n", "timestamp": 1387836772}, {"author": "poisonjam46", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#ce9hby0", "anchor": "r-ce9hby0", "service": "r", "text": "→ Where did you get that USB phone charger with the multiple/changeable heads? \n", "timestamp": 1387922182}, {"author": "Warm_gazpacho", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#ce9nymf", "anchor": "r-ce9nymf", "service": "r", "text": "→ → I got one with a powerGen external battery-you can see one in the second to last picture: http://www.amazon.com/PowerGen-12000mAh-External-Battery-Capacity/dp/B0085OB0IE/ \n", "timestamp": 1387943516}, {"author": "poisonjam46", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#ce9ooed", "anchor": "r-ce9ooed", "service": "r", "text": "→ → → How do you like the powergen battery? I have an external battery and it's pretty crappy. \n", "timestamp": 1387945920}, {"author": "cbr", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#cea2tv6", "anchor": "r-cea2tv6", "service": "r", "text": "→ → This one was conference swag; sorry!\n", "timestamp": 1388008523}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642229894022", "anchor": "fb-642229894022", "service": "fb", "text": "@Tanner: neat! Most of the pictures there have fewer things; is that because I carry more stuff than most people or their pictures leave some things out? Probably somewhere in between, but I'm leaning towards \"I carry a lot\".", "timestamp": "1387837061"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642229923962", "anchor": "fb-642229923962", "service": "fb", "text": "@Joshua: I think of my wedding ring like my glasses, but you're right; it does belong in this picture.", "timestamp": "1387837095"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642230013782", "anchor": "fb-642230013782", "service": "fb", "text": "@Thomas: \"Did you get the periodic table from Ms. Jackman too?\"

Yup. It doesn't really make sense to keep carrying it around because my phone can bring one up if I need it, and I never have needed it. But it's thin and light and it's nice to keep it around.", "timestamp": "1387837163"}, {"author": "Joshua", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642230063682", "anchor": "fb-642230063682", "service": "fb", "text": "I was making a literary reference. \"What does it have in its pocketses?\"", "timestamp": "1387837219"}, {"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642230303202", "anchor": "fb-642230303202", "service": "fb", "text": "I've moved many of my cards to my bag from my wallet, all the secondary credit cards, medical cards, and such. You can have both pass and value on the same Charlie card. I keep an extra in my bag or on my refrigerator for friends. This is mostly to keep a tiny wallet that I don't mind sitting on, and can keep with me even when dancing, after having my wallet stolen from my bag. I add a 10k mAh battery to your list, to assist with people's phone woes. I also keep a spare s3 battery in my bag. My lagoule knife with corkscrew takes the place of your multi tool. I should add the emergency calories to my kit. I also carry ibuprofen and bandaids, which have come in handy many times now.", "timestamp": "1387837407"}, {"author": "BDan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642230502802", "anchor": "fb-642230502802", "service": "fb", "text": "Things I typically or often carry that are not on your list:

- small first aid kit
- towel
- Mylar emergency blanket
- name tag (for dances)
- small water bottle (8 oz.), not always full (so I have something to drink from, if it isn't)
- spork
- chap stick", "timestamp": "1387837592"}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642231206392", "anchor": "fb-642231206392", "service": "fb", "text": "Must not make LOTR jokes... must not make LOTR jokes... must not... make...

WHAT HAS IT GOT IN ITS POCKETSES?!!!", "timestamp": "1387837959"}, {"author": "A_Drow_Named_Drizzt", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#ce8scu0", "anchor": "r-ce8scu0", "service": "r", "text": "Nice stuff, "Jeff" from State Farm\n", "timestamp": 1387838351}, {"author": "IeatPI", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#ce8shya", "anchor": "r-ce8shya", "service": "r", "text": "Edited a little: http://imgur.com/QMxsBQS \n", "timestamp": 1387838715}, {"author": "Daniel", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642234459872", "anchor": "fb-642234459872", "service": "fb", "text": "I had the urge to make a Lord of the Rings joke here, too, but it looks like several people beat me to it. :-p", "timestamp": "1387840195"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642234514762", "anchor": "fb-642234514762", "service": "fb", "text": "@Danner: \"You can have both pass and value on the same Charlie card\"

You can, but I don't like the implementation. When the pass doesn't read properly on the first try you need to tap it again. But some of the time the first tap counted as a use of the pass, so the second tap deducts money. This has happened to me three different times, and when I talked to an MBTA employee they could bring up my history and see that it had done this, but they (said they) couldn't give me my money back.", "timestamp": "1387840284"}, {"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642234604582", "anchor": "fb-642234604582", "service": "fb", "text": "@Jeff, That actually hasn't happened to me - the stall only lets one pass through, the person I'm travelling with needs to go to another turnstile. I can tap it as many times as I want on one turnstile, and as long as it's the first, no problem.", "timestamp": "1387840417"}, {"author": "Daniel", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642234619552", "anchor": "fb-642234619552", "service": "fb", "text": "I haven't had any problem with the value and pass on the same card recently. When I was getting my T pass through a job, though, I couldn't attach extra stored value to it. Apparently the employer-supplied ones are different, though I couldn't get any sort of answer on why.", "timestamp": "1387840430"}, {"author": "Richard", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642234754282", "anchor": "fb-642234754282", "service": "fb", "text": "No flashlight?", "timestamp": "1387840636"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642234779232", "anchor": "fb-642234779232", "service": "fb", "text": "@Richard: the phone is a flashlight.", "timestamp": "1387840661"}, {"author": "Hawkman1701", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#ce8t9ix", "anchor": "r-ce8t9ix", "service": "r", "text": "Mandolin strings. Story please?\n", "timestamp": 1387840768}, {"author": "evildarkarmy", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#ce8zi89", "anchor": "r-ce8zi89", "service": "r", "text": "→ He's obviously a traveling silent assassin who specializes in strangling his prey.\n", "timestamp": 1387857025}, {"author": "cbr", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#ce972no", "anchor": "r-ce972no", "service": "r", "text": "→ There's not enough room in my mandolin case for extra strings, so I keep them in my backpack. I should just get a bigger case.\n", "timestamp": 1387890570}, {"author": "Richard", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642234953882", "anchor": "fb-642234953882", "service": "fb", "text": "Ah, and so much more... (I haven't evolved to a smart phone yet!)", "timestamp": "1387840808"}, {"author": "Jeremy", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642237134512", "anchor": "fb-642237134512", "service": "fb", "text": "Ahhh good to see someone else who likes EDC. What kind of food have you carried with you? I get low blood sugar and should really carry something like that around.", "timestamp": "1387842225"}, {"author": "Neil", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642237728322", "anchor": "fb-642237728322", "service": "fb", "text": "Jeremy, have you considered some granola bars? You may have noticed that I tend to carry one or two from time to time.", "timestamp": "1387842624"}, {"author": "Jeremy", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642237947882", "anchor": "fb-642237947882", "service": "fb", "text": "Yeah, I have some in my dance bag, but they don't pack quite the punch I want. If I could condense a bowl of almonds into a pill...well that would be the perfect thing :P", "timestamp": "1387842860"}, {"author": "Neil", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642238042692", "anchor": "fb-642238042692", "service": "fb", "text": "Carry a small bag of almonds?", "timestamp": "1387842897"}, {"author": "balfarzarkar1", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#ce8up8x", "anchor": "r-ce8up8x", "service": "r", "text": "what kind of flute is that? I had one just like that when i was a kid.\n", "timestamp": 1387844550}, {"author": "Hollis", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642245308132", "anchor": "fb-642245308132", "service": "fb", "text": "My version from a while ago. http://metaphorwhore.blogspot.com/.../what-do-you-carry...", "timestamp": "1387848055"}, {"author": "Ruthan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642248002732", "anchor": "fb-642248002732", "service": "fb", "text": "+1 lip balm. Also good for keeping small cuts on fingers happy, or smearing onto cracked knuckles. (Of course, if your lips don't give you trouble ... I'm now wondering if lotion comes in stick form?)

Personally, I'd want a cap for the bristle end of the toothbrush.", "timestamp": "1387848633"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642252698322", "anchor": "fb-642252698322", "service": "fb", "text": "@Ruthan: I don't find chapstick helps, at least not on my lips: http://www.jefftk.com/p/does-chapstick-work", "timestamp": "1387851746"}, {"author": "Ryan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642253092532", "anchor": "fb-642253092532", "service": "fb", "text": "I found I started carrying less stuff with me everywhere when I moved away from Boston to a more car-dependent location. Some of the things I used to carry (food, phone charger, sweatshirt) I leave in my car unless I plan on needing them while I'm out.", "timestamp": "1387852025"}, {"author": "Christopher", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642255777152", "anchor": "fb-642255777152", "service": "fb", "text": "Why are there so many power bars but no ethernet cable?", "timestamp": "1387854095"}, {"author": "Will", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/115623320734956550423", "anchor": "gp-1387854711621", "service": "gp", "text": "Do you actually use all that stuff?", "timestamp": 1387854711}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642257538622", "anchor": "fb-642257538622", "service": "fb", "text": "@Christopher: \"Why are there so many power bars but no ethernet cable?\"

Each food bar is only around 100 calories, which is really not much. So you need a bunch.

No ethernet cable because neither my laptop nor my phone has an ethernet jack and there's now wifi basically everywhere there are ethernet jacks.", "timestamp": "1387855478"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642257713272", "anchor": "fb-642257713272", "service": "fb", "text": "@Ruthan: \"I'd want a cap for the bristle end of the toothbrush.\"

That might be better. It sits in one of the slots in my backpack intended for pens, so at least the bristles are out of the gunge that can accumulate at the bottom.", "timestamp": "1387855556"}, {"author": "George", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642258202292", "anchor": "fb-642258202292", "service": "fb", "text": "Maybe you should pack containers of peanut butter. Might be more energy dense.", "timestamp": "1387855925"}, {"author": "Christopher", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642258486722", "anchor": "fb-642258486722", "service": "fb", "text": "The larabars are only around 100 calories, but the cliff bars are generally closer to 200-250. I echo GDahl about energy density.", "timestamp": "1387856133"}, {"author": "Christopher", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642258531632", "anchor": "fb-642258531632", "service": "fb", "text": "I also think your backpack needs the addition of a kindle or surface pro.", "timestamp": "1387856173"}, {"author": "Ruthan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642260782122", "anchor": "fb-642260782122", "service": "fb", "text": "Yeah, I use balm (Burt's Bees usually, which is easy to get for free around here) only when my lips are irritated, but that seems to happen pretty regularly when it's cold or dry.", "timestamp": "1387858173"}, {"author": "Ruthan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642260886912", "anchor": "fb-642260886912", "service": "fb", "text": "As far as the brush cap is concerned, I am pretty cavalier with my baggage, and probably unreasonably annoyed about mashed bristles.", "timestamp": "1387858247"}, {"author": "Clara", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642265068532", "anchor": "fb-642265068532", "service": "fb", "text": "I've always been taught that checkbooks are better left at home unless you have specific need of it. And what BDan says about water bottles.", "timestamp": "1387862010"}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#ce93cyf", "anchor": "r-ce93cyf", "service": "r", "text": "These are the kind of edc's I like to see.... Authentic practical stuff that gets actual use and is useful on a daily basis; unlike all of these other hand-canon centric, with enough ammo to aid a small militia and more knives than one will ever use throughout a day in suburbia which are totally pretentious a BS!\n", "timestamp": 1387868414}, {"author": "kademah", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#ce95i5b", "anchor": "r-ce95i5b", "service": "r", "text": "→ You mean NOT everyone in America is equipped for the sudden outbreak of war when they go for a pint of milk? You guys really need to be more prepared. \n\n

/s\n", "timestamp": 1387879144}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1387889352813", "service": "gp", "text": "@Will\n\u00a0Multiple times an hour: phone, handkerchief\n
\n
\nMultiple times a day: house key, mbta pass, id badge\n
\n
\nMultiple times a week:\u00a0multitool, drivers license, bank card, credit card, cash\n
\n
\nMultiple times a month: toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, deodorant, \u00a0whistle, pens, umbrella, library card\n
\n
\nMultiple times a year: mta pass, health insurance card, work credit card, dental insurance card, caffeine pills, emergency food, checkbook, mandolin strings, superglue\n
\n
\nLike to have just in case, but haven't used: earplugs, phone charging equipment, mandolin pick, audio adapters, AC ungrounder, phone number card, shoes papers, zipcard", "timestamp": 1387889352}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642278247122", "anchor": "fb-642278247122", "service": "fb", "text": "@George: \"Maybe you should pack containers of peanut butter.\"

The red and white package near the top is 500 calories of fortified peanut butter.", "timestamp": "1387889582"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642285372842", "anchor": "fb-642285372842", "service": "fb", "text": "@Clara: \"checkbooks are better left at home unless you have specific need of it\"

Why? Occasionally it is useful for me to be able to write checks.", "timestamp": "1387898170"}, {"author": "Clara", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642297383772", "anchor": "fb-642297383772", "service": "fb", "text": "They've got all your bank account info (which is usually enough to initiate an electronic payment), anyone can fill it out and deposit it, and it's a lot harder to reverse charges than a stolen credit card. How often do you need to write a check, where paying by card or billing later is not an option? If it's pretty often, you could carry a single check in your wallet, where it's harder to find, harder to steal, and limits potential damage to a single withdrawal.", "timestamp": "1387905194"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642354609092", "anchor": "fb-642354609092", "service": "fb", "text": "@Clara: \"They've got all your bank account info\"

But so does anyone I write a check to.

\"How often do you need to write a check, where paying by card or billing later is not an option?\"

Actually relatively often, maybe a few times a year. One time paying a tow truck in the middle of the night when other options would have been very annoying.

\"you could carry a single check in your wallet\"

I used to do that, but it would get all worn out.

Is getting fraudulent charges from checks actually something that happens to people?", "timestamp": "1387942799"}, {"author": "Boris", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642364953362", "anchor": "fb-642364953362", "service": "fb", "text": "Speed Stick probably has aluminum as an active ingredient. I don't know the the health risks (if any) this has, but I've met some people who are very concerned over it. Consider an aluminum-free alternative? I know of one that's aloe-based.", "timestamp": "1387949341"}, {"author": "[deleted]", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#ce9xbn0", "anchor": "r-ce9xbn0", "service": "r", "text": "This looks good for camping or daywalking but it looks pretty heavy.\n", "timestamp": 1387990727}, {"author": "Elissa", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/642227563692?comment_id=642407827442", "anchor": "fb-642407827442", "service": "fb", "text": "I just carry one check, folded and hidden.", "timestamp": "1387997240"}, {"author": "caaaaat", "source_link": "http://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/1tk6wq#cea3qhu", "anchor": "r-cea3qhu", "service": "r", "text": "Oh yay, other mandolin players. :) What do you like to play?\n", "timestamp": 1388011457}]}