What's in your pockets

[irnsrgn]

Shirt pocket, pack of cigarettes, bic lighter.

Left bib pocket, wallet, soapstone holder.

Right bib pocket, ball point, short mechanical pencil, small flashlight, cell phone.

Left front pocket, nail clippers, 6 ft tape measure, ring of keys (ones I don't use often), folding screw driver with 6 bits,torch tip cleaners.

Right front pocket, small folding diamond stone, pocket knife, coin purse, master key ring, sheetmetal thickness gauge, 4 inch brass veneir caliper, Suburban keys.

Match pocket, mini van keys, S10 keys.

Plier pocket, slip joint pliers, straight screwdriver, 6 inch crescent wrench, 5WR vice grips.

Left back pocket, check book(s).

Right back pocket, red handkerchief.

When I was working in the shop, I had a torch striker hanging from left hammer loop and a 16 or 20 ft 3/4 wide tape measure hanging off right front pocket, and a grease rag stuck in one of the back pockets. and a pair of ear plugs down around my neck.

First wife and my kids weighed what I wear along with my size 14 high top, logger heel Steel toed boots and came up with 24 lbs.

When I am dressed up, non work clothes or a suit coat, I have a 4 inch pair of slip joint pliers, 4 inch crescent, 4WR vice grips and a 2 in 1 screwdriver in my pocket, Dress tool set sort of.

[Golden_eagle]

wallet, two fixxed blade kifes, husky mini-multitool, small "oldtimer" pocketknife- well loved (gift from dad when i was nine), frost cutlery lockback knife, red G2 pilot, black hevy singing pen, ozarktrails multitool, soapstone dust(about a teaspoon), a bit of soap stone, small wetstone, and a scrap of paper that has "in-234.676" scribbled on it.

[ironrosefarms]

Irnsrgn, your a man after my own heart! I always have my 5wr vise grips on me. I have two sets, one for daily use (back side marred from being used as an impromptu hammer many times) The second set is newer and has been used as a hammer much less, it also has the new added "feature" on the thumb screw of a hex key hole (haven't found a good use for this "feature" yet?

It is not uncommon to be sitting in church and someone comes and asks to borrow my vice grips. I used to carry screw drivers but my pockets just didn't hold up... That is why on my key ring is a 4way screw driver and my infamous P38 can opener, between those two I have removed or installed many a screw phillip or standard.

When I had my motorcycle wreck the nurse cut my jeans off of me and as she picked up the sliced jeans they fell out of her hand cause she wasn't expecting them to weigh so much.

It is a good thing I am limited to pockets and belt loops... if guys used purses I'd have an entire tool bag and probably some emergency rations as well!

[matt87]

Pocketknife, receipt for a cherry Coke and sack of charcoal, mobile phone, #2/HB pencil, wallet, handkerchiefs (2), key chain with 7 keys (1 to a bike lock stolen complete with bike over a month ago) a braided paracord thing, an LED light and a cheap karabina.

[geofthesmith]

4" buck knife, in my pockets i got keys, pencil,wallet, cell, a whetstone of ancient and unknown origin...i cant even tell what its made of.., some wire paperclips and a bic

[Bentiron1946]

Cell phone, two keys(one to house and other to car), wallet and lots of lint. Always lots of lint. More lint then money, hardly ever any money. How I ask does that happen?

[Vladimir Marenus]

Let's see, my pockets... Cell phone, STNA identification badge, STNA license, wallet, keys (I am wearing scrubs, no back pocket ), $1, paper that had the vitals of my patients on it from last night, silver metallic sharpie, dark blue sharpie.... it's a wonder my scrubs don't fall down around my ankles.

[Vladimir Marenus]

Originally Posted by matt87

...receipt for a cherry Coke and sack of charcoal...

Doesn't get any better than that!

[jimmy seale]

let's see-change no paper,schrade bearbpaw,1940 peso-for luck- that i think has run out. and a bunch of dreams- keep the faith, jimmy

[skunkriv]

Don't leave home without - change (maybe), wallet, Old Timer 340T, watch, chapstick, several short pieces of soapstone, 10' pocket tape (the last one cost me more than a 25' regular tape), preconditioned (dirty) earplugs, ink pen, checkbook and for most of the year, a bandana/sweatrag.