Everyday Carry, or EDC, generally refers to small items or gadgets worn, carried, or made available in pockets, holsters, or bags on a daily basis to manage common tasks or for use in unexpected situations or emergencies. In a broader sense, it is a lifestyle, discipline, or philosophy of preparedness.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Spotted at the GAP via @mitch177
Editor’s Note: lol this doesn’t even make sense, what does an incoherent murdered out pocket dump on woodgrain have anything to do with khakis?
New Multi-tool
submitted by bauer
Perhaps I am not “operating” in the same reality as the people posting on this site and I certainly am not trying to judge anyone’s lifestyle. I’m very much about freedom to do what you like, especially when its as harmless as the displaying of one’s kit. -but I am interested from an academic perspective on your thoughts of marketer’s cultivation of grown men as boyish consumers. My gut feeling is that a large percentage of “Everyday Carry” items never see useful operation but are merely for display. When I was a boy I thumbed through the back of comics and kung fu magazines to catch a glimspe of all the gouge that could be purchased but never had the means. As an adult I finally have the cash to get all those things but still don’t have the enemies, foreign or domestic, to vanquish. Imagined risk without accompanying horrors. Call of Duty without the actual duty. Red Dawn from a comfy bed. It is a marketer’s dream. I could be wrong. Perhaps my workaday existence is the outlier and the norm is a chaotic dangerous existence rendered tame with tactical flashlights and titanium sporks. I conclude that, in my perhaps unwelcome and certainly irrelevant opinion, this is another manifestation of our hyper consumptive state of affairs. However, in the spirit of it all, I will offer that I do get a lot of use out of these Red Wing steel toe oxfords. Thoughts?
Editor’s Note: 
I might be feeding the trolls here, but do you honestly think that such a large community has no justification for purchasing and carrying gear other than to take pictures of them to post on the internet? Haha, come on, this isn’t a fashion blog or something like that! But really — it seems you are challenging the definition of tools here, that they have no utility… I have purchased lots of gear before that just simply didn’t work out for me. Did I continue to carry them for display? No, that wouldn’t make any sense. I stopped carrying them precisely because EDCers generally don’t carry extraneous things for no reason. I do concede that some items are a bit costlier than they need to be, but the bottom line is that they still fulfill some purpose. You might just think they’re “for display” because some gear looks damn good… However, I have no doubt that the majority of the contributors to this site (besides the trolls) use their gear in some capacity or another.
Oh, and I wear Red Wings too.
submitted by garenzy
Wallet, HTC EVO, lighter (non-smoker), early 20th-century compass, Spyderco Endura 4 FFG, my dad’s Leatherman SuperTool, $0.16, Pentel GraphGear 1000, Mammut Carabiner, Moleskine, Berol RapiDesign Sketch Mate, WTDs.
Editor’s Note: WAT U CARRYIN A LIGHTER FOR, SON? U DON’T NEED ONE — UR DUNK IS FIRE.
MacGyver’s EDC submitted by idroolinmysleep
Editor’s Note: I wonder how many lumens he can get out of that rubber band?
Related: MacGyver Multitool @ EDC
→ Zippo Lighter Saves Man In Burglary Shooting
via gizmodo submitted by my buddy Justin
Brad Cooper’s Zippo stopped a bullet that could have killed him. Brad Cooper is a very lucky guy. Also, Brad Cooper is crazy.
It happened when he found a burglar in his backyard. The guy pointed the gun at Cooper, telling him to stop. But Cooper didn’t care: He says that he kept walking towards the thief, who shot him on the leg, near his groin. You may think that the bullet stopped him, but that wasn’t the case. Cooper says that he felt something on his leg, but it didn’t hurt that much, so he kept walking until the burglar put his gun against his head, asking him if he wanted “another one.” And then he stopped.
The reason why he didn’t stop and bleed to death through his femoral artery was the steel Zippo that he had in his jeans’ pockets. The Zippo stopped the bullet, the cops got the burglar’s DNA from his TV, and Cooper lived to see another day.
→ "Which one would you hit?(Things people carry edition)"
@PLEASANTSTATUS / EVERY-DAY-CARRY
D E A D 
ok im p. sure nobody else finds this amusing like i do so ill just stopp~
Casio GW-M5600BC Ultra Hyper Uber Stealth Edition via cal..45
Editor’s Note: My fav G-Shock gets even better with the all black everything treatment (8)
My everyday carry (EDC)
Nintendo DSi, Black Nooka Watch, 8GB Data Traveler, Wallet, Lip Balm, LRG 47 Gun Salute Case (Phone/Money/Cards), Blackberry Curve (Say hello to Adam The Bomb!), 4GB iPod Shuffle & last but not least my Canon 350D. What’s yours ?
Editor’s Note: uhhh lol
Kristen’s Coach tote bag via inyourbag.instyle.com
Editor’s Note: I just went through 10 pages of this site trying to find something for the female readers, but unfortunately I think my idea of utility differs from the female definition..
I picked this bag because it has a Tide to Go pen (I carry one) and some sort of knockoff Swiss Army Knife.
Girls: if you think you got a better bag dump, feel free to Submit yours!
