my normal edc is

1. My Sog twitch 2 knife
2. Either a silver or green cadet, a recruit, or a tinker
3. craftsman L.E.D flashlight
4. Bic retractable pen

high school edc:

1. Victorinox classic inside my I.D pouch
2. Victorinox Microlight
3. bic retractable pen

And for my jacket a have a brown carhart

you can take a knife to school? everyone gets in trouble for doing that around where I'm from!

and that's a cool jacket.

my Edc:
SAK Huntsman
mini maglight
Identification
and first aid kit

all in my backpack, everyday!

My EDC is a Victorinox Swiss Memory -- 4 gig drive, white flashlight rather than red laser pointer. Indispensable at work. I also have a Tinker that I carry in my purse, but I don't use it nearly as often.

Ha, when I was in middle school and early high school, you wouldn't believe what I carried around! Granted, I was very crazy about Mac at the time, and it was a small Christian school, where I played unofficial handyman no less, but still, they really looked the other way haha. I guess with a low budget for repairs they lived with what I carried and knew I didn't flash it around. That's the thing, if you never tell anyone, you never take any heat.

Now, I am down to honestly just carrying my SAK and a pinch light on my keys. Of course there is my cell phone and wallet, but hardly worth mentioning. I have been meaning to try to get back into keeping certain things on me and in my car, but that still has yet to happen.

Once upon a time, and still to an extent, I felt these things worth carrying on my person at all times:

Large SAK in pocket
Small SAK on keys
LED light on keychain
Small Flashlight (ie maglight, LED AAA or AA light)
Strike anywhere matches
at least 2 quarters in change (for a phone call or welding haha, ie Mac in Trumbo's World)
Folded up 1 ft square of aluminum foil in wallet
(2) 1 ft wires with alligator clips on each end
20+ ft of kite string
flattened roll of Industrial grade duct tape- they didn't sell small rolls of the most expensive tape so I would buy a big roll and transfer it onto the flat roll- talk about a lot of work haha
lock pick set
Bandaids in wallet

And yes, I really did get up every morning and fill my pockets with all that before heading off to middle school haha- and yes, I wore cargo pant pretty often- looking back that was pretty silly, I still get called MacGyver to this day by people that I only know from that time in my life.

Amazing! You carried all that stuff with you? No wonder people call you MacGyver.

I have carried a SAK called Explorer with me for as long as I can remember. The toothpick is gone, as are the tweezers, the scissors don't work as well as they used to, part of the coating is broken off, but I use the knife nearly every day. Out in the field I have saved a lot of animals with it: seagulls trapped in fish wire, songbirds in strawberry/vegetable nets, I've cut hares and rabbits from traps (when I don't hunt, I don't want those animals to die in that ugly way) and oh, lots of other useful things.

My dream has always been: stranding on a desert island and survive with my knife. It's a cliché, I know, but still...
And I would be devastated if I ever lost it.

Aw - I love the bit about saving the animals and birds!

Traveller, check out the Victorinox website -- you can get replacement toothpicks and tweezers, and replacement springs for the scissors. The replacement parts aren't very expensive. You can also send the knife to Victorinox for repairs -- the knives all have a lifetime warranty. And if you do that, they'll also sharpen the knife blade(s)!

I had to send mine back once when the flashlight stopped working.

My SAK, my keys on a keychain with compass, my cellphone and my lighter. Though I don't smoke, you never know when a girl asks for a light.

when I went too school I carryed my SAK around all the time, not
to protect myself just because it was there in my pocket just in case something needed to be fixed.

1.) SAK
2.) Mac's Jacket eather the brown one or the new one I bought hear.
3.) First aid kid in my jeep.
4.) Lighter
5.) small flashlight

These days my EDC is mostly just my SAK, keys and sometimes a cell phone.

In my "MacGyver" years I use to always carry a flattened out roll of duct tape in my back pocket and my front pockets usually contained SAK, paper clip, coins and any other junk I found along the way.

I find these days that I don't like having my pockets full. Even my keys have been reduced to car key and remote and house key. If I'm going anywhere on my bike or walking I use a separate house key by itself to lighten the load.

The wisdom of age has taught me that, if you don't use something on a regular basis there's not much point lugging it around with you "just in case you might need it one day."

Maybe I'm just being realistic.. *shrugs*

Well, the whole point of the Worldview According to MacGyver is to not carry around a whole bunch of stuff. It's to carry one or two essential tools, and to keep the eyes and the mind open. The rest of the toolkit is whatever's handy at the moment of need.

Eggzzactly!

*ponders potential uses for eggs*

Always have with me my SAK, cell phone, mini flashlight, chapstick and an elastic bandage (four years in the colourguard left me with a bum wrist, never know when I'll bang it up again and need to wrap it).
Keep a roll of duct tape in my backpack, and a crank flashlight and auto emergency kit in my car.

I always have my cellphone with me. MP3 player, which I use A LOT, because I love music... I used to have my SAK with me all the time but I lost it. That's about it, i think...

Updated EDC:
Victorinox hiker
energizer re branded Nuwai tactical 1AA 1wat light (aound 45 lumens)
casio gzone rock cell phone
paper mate re branded pen

I carrry....uh....chapstick? But I usually have my backpack with me and there's a lot of weird stuff in there. For instance, I have postage stamps, and a first aid kit. Never know when you'll need any of those.

I had an SAK once...I lost it! I dont' know what happened to it! Hmmm....maybe I'm not worthy to be a member of this community?

Here is everything I have with me everytime I leave my house in my MacGyver messenger bag:
SAK Tinker
Duct tape
Paperclips
Rubberbands
Notebook
Pen
Stick matches
WHite out tape
Compass
Mini first aid kit
Mini flashlight
Hand lotion
Chapstick
Tissues
Cell phone
Magnifying glass


I keep a Heritage .22 pistol very close by and I own a few rifles for hunting ( sorry Mac)

MacBeth wrote:

Hear hear.

Hear hear.

+1

When I first got into MacGyver I carried around all kinds of worthless stuff and with time I've cut it back to just the SAK most days.

Wet naps, crayons, hand sanitizer, and a couple of diapers in the purse. Must haves when you have a 1 and 3 year old. Oh, and also a copy of "Pigman" that I have yet to get around to reading. Sorry I couldn't add anything cool though.

hey I think everyones edc is cool. I find it interesting just to see what people carry. I that your items you carry are very cool

Here's what I tend to carry with me:
1. A good book
2. My iPod (when I don't have a good book)
3. Some tissues
4. My keys
5. My wallet

Yep, that's about it. All you people who are carrying around knives and duct tape, lighters, flashlights, etc, must have much more interesting lives than I do, since I have never needed any of that stuff! lol.

When my kids were younger, I used to have those in my purse....now with a very active 5 and 7 year old, my minivan seems to be my everyday carry.

I normally have my SAK and a basic first aid kit in my van...along with soccer balls, small homemade teepee (for entertaining one kid while other one practices), several kids books (Diary of a Worm is quite popular right now), juiceboxes, and granola bars. I still carry wipes because you never know when you might need one!

My husband even refers to my van as warehouse one. He doesn't think I'll ever get it reduced to the point that I could live/work out of a jeep wrangler (my goal once I'm past the carseat stage with kids).

Seriously though, between my backpack for work and my minivan, I have a lot of stuff (tools too)...and the sad thing is that I get to use a lot of it on a regular basis. Mac would probably cringe at this point, but I do try to use stuff that I find on the fly to deal with issues that arise.

Guess I lost something on the streets of my EDC today thanks to my torn pocket. It was my SAK !

ouch! thats rough

I'm sorry ....that really sucks. But I guess now you have an excuse to go shopping for a new one.

Yeah, well, I still have an old one but it's not very sharp any more and I can bend it all the way backwards. Not much fun. There was a shop in town selling SAKS, but they've moved to somewhere else and I don't know where.

Most sports stores should sell them. So it shouldn't be too hard to find a replacement.

Strange actually my store isn't selling them... we have plenty of camping gear.