Why so ridiculous on EDC?

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it does tend to drive me insane when guys carry 3 knives, 2 guns,an IFAK, cell phone, Ipad and back up cell.

but then they break out their backpack or briefcase and carry more crap. then in their trunk they have BoB and an AK with folding stock for SHTF while at work.
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Yeah, it's hard to keep up when your buddies keep raising the bar. :evil:

And we haven't even touched on tactical diaper bags or EDC medical supplies for, say, someone suffering severe Type II diabetes. Managing a pump is something I hope I never have to hassle. Daily port insertions - it's a plastic hypo that stays in for hours, plus injections before a meal, along with high sugar content candies when it overcompensates.

That bag really does need to be tactical grade, it's with you every minute you are out of the house, Bad enough I have a small one I take to carry prescription meds - and a Swiss Army knife, finger nail cutters, extra pens because people take them at work, etc etc etc, plus my lunch. Yeah, it's a "murse," a man - purse.

Men used them first in the day, carried all their fortune in "cash" in a wallet, plus other things like a clasp knife in them. Clothes didn't have pockets, pants didn't have belts, and we tended to overdress a lot more because there was very little heating available. If you went out, you were out - all day - no HVAC or whatever.

We carried EDC wallets and small packs then, as women were freed from the duties of houseservant and became equal, they adopted them too. Not having some means to carry convenience items might be nice for some - if it works for you, ok.

Just don't ask to use my stuff when you discover you do need it. Pocket knives are the best example, some never carry one, but get in a bind and they depend on others to provide. The difference is some can stand alone and make their way in life, others? Seem to lack some self sufficiency.

Laugh at the belt and suspenders approach if you like, that attitude is likely what started the others on not depending on anyone but themselves. All they got was a derisive sneer in a moment of need.

So, if your car stops dead in the road one night out in the middle of nowhere, chancy cell phone reception on the screen and the faint strains of banjo music drifting over the wind, can you pull a tool bag from the trunk and clean your battery terminals you've neglected since it was installed three years ago? Or just wait for sunrise and a passing motorist who DOES have the gear and knows how to use it? A bag of tools and some knowledge worth a $60 tow fee just to see someone brush off some crud and charge you another $120?

Man is known as a user of tools, I have mine in the trunk, others see them walking around their office all day.
 
I think it depends on your circumstances.

I’ve told this story before but when I was in the Army I was scheduled for an M16 qualification course off post. The original plan was a one day range including night fire and return to post that night. We arrived at Vilsec in a blizzard. As usual in the Army every thing ended up taking twice as long as anyone planned for and we ended up staying over night with no change of clothes and no sleeping bags. Long story short things kept being added to the range and what started out as a one day trip ended up as a week long FTX.

I learned my lesson well, from that day forward I made it a rule never to leave main post without a change of socks and underwear, rain coat, my field jacket, long johns, a sleeping bag and an extra pack of smokes. I also made damn sure from that day forward that my boots were Gortex lined and water proof.

I now work as a security guard. For several years I worked on a site that required me to spend the day outside on foot regardless of weather and every single day I brought a small pack to work with me that has in it a change of socks and underwear, rain coat, a fleece, long johns, a stocking cap and gloves. For Colorado where it really can be 60 degrees at 10 AM and 6 inches of snow by two that's not extreme.

I no longer work on that site and I’m not required to spend as much time out doors but I still carry the pack in my car every day because I still live in Colorado.

The things that I carry every single day are things I find myself using every day. I make it a point to never leave my home without a flashlight. With the technology that’s available you can have 140 lumens in a package not much bigger than an AA battery.

I realize this example might be a little extreme but I was watching “It happened in an instant” the other night and they had a segment about a family that was in a plane crash in the Alaskan outback. Long story short at one point in the story a search and rescue party flies right over the crash site and the family is trying to signal them with the screen from a lap top. I turned to my wife and said that is why I never walk out the door without a flash light.

Other than that I always have a multitool on me and a CRKT Ignitor Knife and of course where legal and permitted by company policy a firearm and two reloads
 
I think in some instances, it's easy to get carried away with EDC.

Kinda like my outlook on cell phones. My oldest daughter just recently got on me when I replaced my cell phone after about 5 years on the old one. She looked at my new phone and said "You replaced your flip phone with another flip phone? Nice upgrade, Daddy!"

:)

I need a phone that's a phone. I also like the phone to be compact enough to fit in whatever pocket I want to carry it in and I don't like the idea of paying for a data plan just to get something with a bigger screen. And when was the last time you got a smart phone charge to last a whole week with even moderate use?

I keep my EDC to the basics, and I know how to use my basics. Not saying that there aren't better options out there. But these things have a habit of growing. And I'm somewhat of a minimalist. Too much cr*p is just...too much clutter to carry around.

When I CAN carry my gun, I do. With one magazine. Other EDC related to personal protection/emergency needs is my pocket knife, flip phone, and as small stash of cash in my wallet.

That's it.
 
My EDC...
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Actually, I have a couple of additional items in my pockets daily, not in the picture...a Swiss Army Knife, and a Fisher Bullet Pen.
 
I think the absolute best thing about my murse is that I haven't spent a single second in the past 15 years searching for my keys, wallet or anything else. Or going back into the house (or turning my vehicle around) because I forgot something.

This alone makes it worth its weight in gold.
 
jcwit said:
So did the frontiersman and the mountain men, they just called it either a shooting bag or a possibles bag.
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True enough. Most males don't worry about briefcases and attache cases. Knapsacks are OK to most. Even messenger bags. But their manhood immediately atrophies when someone refers to their bag as a "murse" and not a briefcase.
 
I don't carry hardly anything, an extra mag most of the time. But if some stuff were to go down, I'd love to have That Guy with the Big Bag O'EDC real nearby.
 
True enough. Most males don't worry about briefcases and attache cases. Knapsacks are OK to most. Even messenger bags. But their manhood immediately atrophies when someone refers to their bag as a "murse" and not a briefcase
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I'm 70 plus years old, and after raising 2 daughters and being married to the same woman all my adult life I'm more than fairly confident in my manhood.

Those that question it well lets just say I won't express myself in writing here at to my thoughts of them.

Most of the items carried in my Murse/Purse are for medical conditions I've acquired in my old age.
 
jcwit said:
I'm 70 plus years old, and after raising 2 daughters and being married to the same woman all my adult life I'm more than fairly confident in my manhood.

Those that question it well lets just say I won't express myself in writing here at to my thoughts of them.

Most of the items carried in my Murse/Purse are for medical conditions I've acquired in my old age.
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My comments were not directed at you. My apologies.
 
r1derbike - " ... Arkansas has really been going places with firearm friendly legislation lately, but an unrestricted length on knife blades has been turned into a joke with less than a 3 in. blade only legal now.

All my carry knives were deemed illegal overnight."
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When did that idiotic law pass? I grew up in Arkansas and have relatives living there. What was the "reasoning" put forth by some moronic legislator for the "less than three inches" need and why did enough stupid legislators vote for it?

Thanks.

L.W.
 
Aragon said:
Are you actually one of those individuals that's controlled by silly and fickle popular cultural constraints? I rather feel sorry for you...
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nope and I'm also not making up cutesy names for things either.

Maybe because I'm a minimalist or just confident in myself but I don't tote a lot of crap with me, never have never will.
 
Maybe because I'm a minimalist or just confident in myself but I don't tote a lot of crap with me, never have never will.
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Never is an awful long time and being as no one knows the future, don't bet on it.
Note my post #164.
 
My EDC is simple. I carry a .25 ACP with 8 shots in it at 7+1, a pocket knife, sometimes two, an iPhone, keys, and cash. I used to hardly ever carry cash but since I got a delivery job I have to now. To be honest I prefer to just have two things on me, a knife and keys. I like to keep my guns at home but when I'm responsible for hundreds of my company's dollars you better bet I'm packing the midget cricket LOL. I like keeping my iPhone stashed in a safe place at home too just because that thing is so darn pricey.
 
huntsman said:
nope and I'm also not making up cutesy names for things either.

Maybe because I'm a minimalist or just confident in myself but I don't tote a lot of crap with me, never have never will.
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So the "cutsie name" bothers you? That's quite revealing... I actually refer to my bag as a "burse." Most have no clue what that means, including its long history.

Your use of "crap" is also quite revealing... ;)
 
What in the world do you do that you can get by without at least some kind of minimal wallet? No driving or purchasing of any kind?
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I do carry a wallet...car keys, and wear a wedding band too, but I generally don't show those, or consider them a part of my "EDC". Much like my underwear, they are just a part of my everyday attire, and I've always thought it kinda silly to include those in a description of those extra items that I carry daily for the little contingencies that may come up from time to time (but that are non-essential, on most days.)
 
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