Left Front:

1) “Vault Keys: Fort Knox” brass keychain my mom tossed in as a last minute stocking stuffer in 1974. It’s the only keychain I’ve ever used for my personal keys. (I think I started out with a key to my bedroom… Not that I was allowed to have it locked for any length of time.) Every once in awhile I catch myself thinking of how much of my life this keychain has seen, from the first girl I ever kissed, to the woman I married, and every one in between. The chain is from my first wallet, back when trucker wallets were all the rage, and CW McCall was all over the radio.)

2) Paper money in Swiss Army clip. (I’ve had 4-5 money clips over the years.)

3) Swiss Army knife. Can’t even recall how long I’ve carried a pocket knife, or how many I’ve had. I probably started with a boy scout knife, but went Swiss not too much later. My dad got me one of those left handed knives in Switzerland when he was there… (I saw that I wasn’t the only one…)

Right Front:

1) Blue pen (Fisher space pen ink in both pens. Never has failed me yet.)

2) Black pen

3) Sharpie

4) Small Maglite – Never know when you may need one, and it’s come in handy numerous times.

Watch Pocket:

1) Loose change

2) Cell phone (or on belt)

Left Rear:

1) Eagle Creek nylon wallet (Leather’s classier, but too hot in a jeans pocket.)

2) Flat razor blade box cutter – (only for work)

Right Rear:

1) Comb in case – Leather and lanyard project the guys in my den did as a craft in cub scouts, as per the den mother (my mom.)

Everything goes into a valet on my dresser (used to be a cigar box next to my bed, when I was a kid) every night when I get home.

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Since there was no limitation on which pockets counted, I included my jacket pockets as well. That’s the outer ring of stuff in the photo.

Clockwise from bottom left, that includes:

iRiver for recording podcasts
Two types of microphones for said iRiver
Vaseline lip therapy (can’t stand the candlesticks)
Car / house keys
Business cards (in a floppy disk carrying case)
Palm Vx (used for note taking an ebook readin)
Noise cancelling headphones (useful in the server room)
Earbuds (in an Altoid chewing gum case)
iPod

The inner ring goes in (or on) my pants pockets:

Cell phone (clips to my pocket, not my belt)
Wallet (currently devoid of cash)
Eye drops
Left-handed Swiss Army knife
Work keys (with included security key)
Two USB flash drives (One Mac formatted, one DOS)
Pocket change (currently consisting of one 1 Euro cent and 1 yen)
Handkerchief

Keys

Wallet

Not much and I have a little table by the door so I can just grab everything on the way out.

I’ve heard the quality on the Case knives are great… If I could only get my hands on one, it would look like a personalized one … Considering my last name is Case