What is an every day carry really when you get down to it? Isn't it just a list of kit that you think you need for what you are planning? I mean wouldn't a real kit change with the things you have planned for the day? So if you are heading into town for a day in the office your everyday carry might be your credit card, some spare cash for a coffee machine, phone, keys (with a small torch attached perhaps for thos times you need to check the cables in the back of your work desktop computer is in properly) and perhaps your packed lunch (also coffee and milk for the week if there is no coffee machine). However, at the weekend you are out for a walk so you have your hiking EDC. Perhaps you are doing a bit of DIY and need to buy stuff so you might pack a tape measure to check the size of what you are buying.
Of course I could be wrong here and it is what you might need for a zombie apocalypse or breakdown in society. If this is the case then it is a misnamed kit because AFAIK I have not heard of these two things happening in most places that the posters on here tend to come from. Certainly not something that happens every day.
I am not taking the mick or anything but I just wonder what the purpose of your EDC kit really is. Do you actually look at your life and activities and look at what might reasonably happen and carry as small and practical kit that would allow you to cope with that. I use the two words "reasonably happen" because I wonder if some kits might have a bit more of a fantastical element or be more about gear freakery kit collection.
From my personal POV I really don't bother with an EDC kit. I just pack what I need or believe I need. For example we protect the bench seats of the van with folded up blankets to stop staining the seats if we eat in there (a converted van camper BTW). Could have other emergenct uses if we breakdown (have done so 3 times on the same road, our nemesis road). We also have a campingbox under the back of the rock and roll bed bench seat. Stove and camping pots, also trangia and gas cans. We just kept doing this when we went camping more and found that if we decide last minute to go camping we have it there ready. But that is only there because the garage wass a real mess when we got back once and kind of couldn't be bothered sorting it out to unload the van.
When travelling along our nemesis road we always have snacks and a football. The number of times we have broken down on a side road and ended up entertaining the boy with a game of footie while we wait for recovery, well it makes sense to have a football. Plus battery packs for the same reason, to keep our phones running (ours for emergency use and our son's for entertainment).
Agreed. Very difficult to defend a charge of “Going equipped…….”
