Since I keep wanting to be able to link to it, and also to help me keep track of what all I’ve got in this, here is an updated Utility Belt Inventory, September 2018 edition:
Main bag:
Main compartment:
Wallet (notable non-obvious content: glasses prescription)
Notebook
2 pencils (mostly for taking exams)
4 napkins
Canadian passport (acting as primary government ID)
Small scrunchie (I often bring my big scrunchie with me too, but I use it around the house often enough not to keep it in the bag)
Small dim flashlight, good only for reading by
AAA replacement battery for above flashlight (expired 2015; mind you, flashlight has same batch and works fine)
Packet of Kleenex
Book-shaped keychain, with broken attachment
Twisty tie
Honey-coloured rock, souvenir of a Rock and Mineral Fair a few years back
Eurocent coin (found on a store floor in *this* continent)
100 yen coin (ditto)
Penny squished into New England Aquarium souvenir
Shopping bag, folded into its attached pouch
Disposable plastic bag (the kind bulk foods are sold in)
Front compartment:
Clip-on sunglasses
Nature Valley peanut butter granola bar (expires January 2019)
Nutri-Grain mixed berry granola bar (expires April 2019)
Pen (the kind with a button you click, rather than a separate cap that could get lost)
Plastic tortoise
Rubber lizard
Stretchy string (originally a Chuck E Cheese prize bracelet, which I immediately untied into string), which past!me says is 16in long so I didn’t bother to measure it now
3 moist towelettes
Short string with keychain loops at each end
Chunk of amethyst, with broken keychain attachment
Magnifying glass
Penknife, with scissors and tweezers
Slice of blue agate
Mini crayon set (six to cover the rainbow, plus brown and pink), in a Ziploc so that it won’t spill and/or melt over anything if its case breaks
Small blue Sharpie
Mini sewing kit (I let past!me catalogue its contents: “a needle, six different colours of thread wrapped around some cardboard, a safety pin, and a button”)
1-metre tape measure
Back compartment:
Quart/medium Ziploc bag (huh, that’s it for empty Ziplocs?; *adds another quart, plus 2 sandwich, 1 snack/small, and 1 gallon/large, then moves to main compartment for better fit*)
2 tampons: 1 light, 1 medium
2 menstrual pads
Some dried-out baby wipes (water to reactivate them stored separately)
Silver Star of David, necklace attachment *not* broken but also not in use
Loop with…what is this kind of closure called? *searches* looks like it’s called a “side-release buckle”; about 9in long in total
Wire saw
8×11 paper with knot instructions printed on it, given to me by my Girl Guide leader
An overlapping set of knot instructions, this time on a set of professionally laminated cards
Purple geode
Foil blanket
…what the fuck, where is my poncho, could have sworn I had one in here
(Well, at least I have a blanket and a hat (hat to be described later), that might suffice)
Hand sanitizer (directly attached to belt)
Phone pouch:
Back compartment:
Earbuds
Lightweight gloves with capacitive fingertips
The lanyard that came with the pouch
Strap about 2ft in length, with clips on each end (visible in the third picture of the link)
Carabiner
(Coming soon: solar-powered external phone battery (+ bonus flashlight function), ETA November)
Middle compartment:
Phone (+ myriad contents)
Front compartment:
USB to microUSB adapter
microSD to SD adapter
String with adjuster (also visible in the third picture of the phone-pouch link)
Snack size Ziploc containing the European!AC to USB adapter my most recent smartphone came with, the pin for popping the SIM card tray out, and something that might be a stand
North-American!AC to USB adapter
…huh, apparently I have *two* microSD to SD adapters in here, that seems excessive; *puts second one on coffee table until I decide where to keep it*
Spare pair of earbud covers
Screen cleaning cloth
Edit Sep/15/2018: Found out Dad had the kind of adapter that lets you plug USB peripherals into a smartphone lying around unused, so I stuck it into my phone pouch in case it comes in handy. I’ll give it back if he needs it, plus I recently gave him my spare microSD card (32 GB), so even if you insist on viewing it transactionally he’s getting the better end of the deal.
Keyring (on retractable string)
House key
Loblaws (grocery store) loyalty card
Canadian Tire (department store) loyalty card
Other keyring
Bike key
P.O. box key
Samoa keychain
Penknife pouch
Penknife, with fork, spoon, and corkscrew
Medkit (and other things that needed the space)
Side compartment:
3 medium-small Band-Aids
3 medium Band-Aids
3 knee Band-Aids
Moleskin bandage
String with adjuster and clips at each end, like a hybrid of the things from the third phone-pouch picture
Emery board
2 dimenhydrinate pills (expires January 2020)
2 pseudoephedrine pils (expires June 2019)
2 acetominophen+dextromethorphan+phenylephrine pills (expires October 2018; I would have preferred pure dextromethorphan pills, but the combo was all they had in pill form (cough syrup is fine for home, but hard to store in a medkit))
1 loperamide pill (expires May 2020)
Main compartment:
Snack Ziploc:
4 restaurant packets of salt
2 restaurant packets of pepper
1 single-serving bag of M&Ms (expires November 2018)
Bug repellent
Sample-sized tube, originally some skincare product, washed out and refilled: masking-tape label indicates it is antibiotic ointment and expires November 2018
Another sample-sized tube with the same treatment done to it, this one indicating it is diphenhydramine anti-itch ointment and expires March 2019
2 pairs of disposable nitrile gloves
Fairly large roll of something that might be gauze
Smaller roll of something that is definitely gauze, as it is labelled (past!me only mentions one roll of anything even resembling gauze, so I can’t ask her for help)
Travel-sized bottle of ibuprofen, emptied out and refilled with a newer batch (masking-tape label indicates it expired June 2018; *fetches January 2021 batch from cupboard, dumps out 6 old pills, replaces with 8 new pills, relabels*)
Surgical mask, for keeping pollen out of throat
Blister prevention ointment (looks like a deodorant stick, but you rub it on your feet)
Whistle/compass/mirror combo
Collapsible metal ~shot-sized cup, with keychain loop
Mini hairbrush
Lighter
Instructional paper (past!me lists it as “heat exhaustion, blisters, insect stings, and sprains”)
Dental floss
(Coming soon: water-filtration straw, ETA December)
Paracord bracelet (directly attached to belt)
Hat with brim and chinstrap, tied up in chinstrap and strung through belt
Honourary member: one-quart water bottle, in shoulder-strap pouch
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