EDC, or what's in your pockets?

[flex wood]

My precious.

[StuntDouble]

Hobie,

Thanks for the tip, I had heard that before, but completely forgot about it. I'll have to see what I can do about editing the photo.

Ryan,

I can't think of the name of it, but that's a nice Benchmade you have there.

[Luke]

My precious.

Someone was bound to post a hobbit joke.

Keys, wallet, mobile phone.

[indecks]

Wallet and keys, of course. Phone too.

As for actual EDC, either a Spyderco Tenacious plain edge (great knife for the price) or a Benchmade Griptillian combo edge.

[gtmtnbiker]

Wallet, phone, and my car key.

One thing I never understood is people carrying a ring with a bazillion keys. At my house, I made it so that all of my external locks operate with a single key.

[Luke]

One thing I never understood is people carrying a ring with a bazillion keys.

My Car key
Wife's car key
Key to office building
Key to my office
Key to my Parent's front door
Key to my in-laws front door
Key to my shed
Key to front and side door
Key to back door
Key to game room

All needed.

[cookie monster]

My pockets contain my house key, cell phone and a gutting knife if i am going to pick up stuff on cl i add a expandable baton to my back pocket.

[gtmtnbiker]

Key to front and side door
Key to back door
Key to game room

You could change your locks to consolidate to a single key. Just a matter of bringing the lock & knob to Home Depot and have them change it out. I think it's $5 or $10 per lock. Well worth it.

Key to my shed

I don't see the need to always carry this. Why not put on a wall in the garage or next to the cellar door?

Key to my Parent's front door
Key to my in-laws front door

Don't see the need to always carry these. I would put them somewhere in my car.

Wife's car key

Again, I would only have the key for the car that I'm driving.

So personally I would have winnowed the list down to:

My Car key
Key to office building
Key to my office

Since I always enter the house through the garage, I don't feel the need to carry the house key. Worse case, I find the hidden house key that we stashed somewhere on our property. For my office, we use a thin electronic card that I have in the wallet. I just need to wave the wallet outside the door sensor.

[Luke]

You could change your locks to consolidate to a single key. Just a matter of bringing the lock & knob to Home Depot and have them change it out. I think it's $5 or $10 per lock. Well worth it.

I don't see the need to always carry this. Why not put on a wall in the garage or next to the cellar door?


Don't see the need to always carry these. I would put them somewhere in my car.

Again, I would only have the key for the car that I'm driving.

So personally I would have winnowed the list down to:

My Car key
Key to office building
Key to my office

Since I always enter the house through the garage, I don't feel the need to carry the house key. Worse case, I find the hidden house key that we stashed somewhere on our property.

Negative. No way am I changing the schlage locks I currently have. Spent a pretty penny on them, keeping them. Also I lock the entrance to the third floor every night, so I need the gameroom key on my person.

Why? Because people who enter through the garage and have all their keys accessible to anyone aren't thinking about security. Breaking into a garage is simple as pie, and usually how burglars enter your house. That's literally giving the thieves the keys to your home. It's also how one of my neighbors was murdered. Thief entered through the garage, opened the door where the keys were there waiting for them.

I use my shed on a daily basis, and again, I'm not foolish enough to leave keys where anyone could get to them.

See, thinking forward, if my wife has an issue with her car key, I don't have to drive home to find it and again for security reasons we don't keep keys where anyone could get them. Plus I also drive my wife's car.

I travel a lot, so knowing I can always stay with the inlaws or my parents makes it worth keeping the keys on the key chain.


Plus taking keys off and on and off and on is a pain. That and loose keys are always the ones that get lost. And I feel fine with saying that not keeping your house key on you and leaving it in the garage is just plain dumb. Sure, you might not get broken into, but you sure as hell are making it easier for the criminals.

[gtmtnbiker]

Negative. No way am I changing the schlage locks I currently have. Spent a pretty penny on them, keeping them.

Just so you know, you're just changing the cylinder inside the lock. Otherwise, you're keeping the same Schlage, Baldwin, or whatever lock you're using.

Breaking into a garage is simple as pie, and usually how burglars enter your house.
That's literally giving the thieves the keys to your home.

Get a better garage door. My door does not have any windows or external locks. You would have to physically break the door. Might as well do the same to a door/window.

I use my shed on a daily basis, and again, I'm not foolish enough to leave keys where anyone could get to them.

I'm not sure what the big deal with having the shed key inside the house. I mean, are you worried about a friend/relative being inside the house and then getting access to your shed? If it's a thief, I would think there's more interesting stuff to steal inside the house than a shed unless you're Tony Soprano stashing money inside his bird seed.

Plus taking keys off and on and off and on is a pain. That and loose keys are always the ones that get lost.

Agreed.

And I feel fine with saying that not keeping your house key on you and leaving it in the garage is just plain dumb. Sure, you might not get broken into, but you sure as hell are making it easier for the criminals.

I don't have the house key in the garage. My house door in the garage is unlocked though. Again, I have good garage doors.