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title: "/carry/"
description: "I try to keep a pretty light every day carry, but it never works out, keyfobs and headphone cases end up causing more bulk than I'd like, but My EDC is no..."
date: 2026-03-27
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## EDC

I try to keep a pretty light every day carry, but it never works out, keyfobs
and headphone cases end up causing more bulk than I'd like, but My EDC is no
where near the bulk I had as a kid with my cargo pants decked out with
everything I could possibly need.

I hold no attachment to anything in my EDC.  Nothing on my person has
sentimental value.  Anything I carry can be lost, stolen, or destroyed at any
point in time.  I pick things of sufficient usable, utilitarian, quality
sufficient to work.  No extra fluff.

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* Google Pixel 6
* Ridge Wallet
* Olight Perun - Since April 2022
* Civivi Qubit - Since March 2024 after my last one was donated to the Indianapolis Stadium
* OpenFit Shokz

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## Rules

* lightweight
* replacable
* no emotional attachments
* utilitarian
* everything serves a purpose

## My kit

![My EDC layout](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/606e48d7-bf14-42b9-a96e-87b676556ff8.webp)
Photo taken March 2023

## Phone
_Google Pixel 6_

I will not get finance a new phone for the foreseeable future again.  The last
time I feel like I got a phone that felt like an upgrade was 2018 when I went
to the Pixel 3.  The pixel 6 and pixel 8 my wife has feel no different
whatsoever to me.  It's become more of a tool that does its job, there's no
major upgrades really driving me to create more ewaste with new devices.

## Wallet
_Ridge Wallet_

A necessary evil that I still need.  I keep as few of cards as necessary in it.
This would be the worst thing in my kit to loose.  Only because the time it
would take to replace all of them.  This one was a gift to replace my last
leather wallet, and I see no reason for this one to ever need replaced.  It's
much lighter and smaller, would not change that aspect.

## Flashlight
_Olight Perun_

When I became a homeowner I added a dedicated flashlight to my EDC.  Its light
and out of the way.  It's the only thing I've ever found useful to fit in the
coin pocket of jeans, so I don't even notice it.  Compared to using a phone,
its more powerful, easier to position on me with the clip on my shirt/pants, or
magnetically to a metal surface for inspections/house work.

## Knife
_Civivi Qubit_

I've carried a knife since as long as I can remember, feels like 10 but
probably more like 14 years old.  Never anything fancy, a few knock off
leathermans, a few Buck, Case, KaBar that I found on a bridge, and now 3
Civivis.  I use them till they break or more commonly they get lent and not
returned, or lost.  This is the most utilitarian thing I keep, almost always
kept razor sharp, used, abused, and put away dirty.  Never used for prying, but
used to cut anything it will cut no matter how _hard_ it is on it.  Its not to
look pretty, show off, its purely a tool that I hold no attachment to.

## Headphones
_OpenFit Shokz_

Not my first choice in headphones, but they work.  Headphones are probably the
item of biggest churn and ewaste for me.  Eventually I might pony up for
something that is more durable and repairable, but headphones just don't last
forever before they stop working for me.  This latest pair was a pair my wife
chose to try and did not like.  They sat in a drawer for a year or so until I
started carrying them.