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[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 weeks ago

Nice try, pickpocket.

[-] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

Nice try stochastic pick pocketer

[-] Janx@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't always carry all of this, but this is fully-loaded:

  • Right pocket: phone
  • Left pocket: beeswax lip balm, contact lens drops, vehicle keys
  • Right side pocket: work keys, microfiber cloth
  • Left side pocket: work phone, device failure "toe tags"
  • Belt: work ID/access badge
  • Right extra pocket: bit-driver with 8 bits
  • Right rear: wallet
  • Left rear: needlenose pliers
  • Clipped to lapel: micro Phillips/flathead screwdriver, pen
  • Shoulder: laptop bag with cables
  • Right ear: Bluetooth earpiece

I'm pretty happy with this setup for most of my workday...

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Left front: phone

Right front: keys, change, sometimes earplugs

Right butt: wallet

Anything else I need is in my backpack.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Keys front right, wallet rear right, phone rear left. That's all I carry.

Front left is for anything miscellaneous I pick up during the day, if I do.

Before I retired, I also carried a pen, and a leatherman tool, but I don't need those anymore.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

As for pockets, I ain't saying which, but almost ways just my wallet and phone. Only things I ever really carry on me regularly. Keys usually stay with whatever I am taking with me ( laptop case, backpack, whatever ), so I'd be screwed if I lost whatever I take with me.

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I like to put my pocket into my pocket and watch things get real weird.

[-] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Phone front right, wallet and earbuds front left. My keys go on a retractable carabiner attached to a belt loop but sometimes get tucked into the nearest pocket to reduce jingling.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Front right: keys.

Back right: wallet.

Back left: phone, until I sit down then I just pull it out and set it on a table or something.

Front left: nothing usually, but if I put something that isn't one of the above in my pocket, that's the one. When I smoked, that's where the cigarette case went.

[-] Horsey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Phone on left. Bundle of keys on the right. Dick typically goes right, but I try to even it out once in a while.

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

All you left pocket phone people, are you left handed?

[-] geekwithsoul@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

No, because I hold the phone with my nondominant hand (my left) and interact with it using my dominant hand (my right). Why would I put it in the pocket on my dominant handed side? I'd just have to switch it to the other hand once it was out of my pocket.

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Interacting with my phone is so much easier with my dominant hand (right).

[-] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is what prompted the question. I didn’t have a phone until I was older, so my wallet always went in the right. Only place left for the phone is the left.

There was speculation this could be an age thing.

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Funny, I grew up without a phone but my wallet was always back right pocket, keys in front left.

[-] Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

front right: phone side right: wallet front left: keys side left: smoking stuff, meshtastic radio back left: handkerchief

For some reason your post reminded me of when I got my first flip phone and I hadn't had a designated pocket for it.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's why they had phone holsters.

[-] Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago
[-] butmingus@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Phone, left front. Wallet (including work fob) and key in right front; small flashlight and chapstick in the coin pocket; pen clipped to back right pocket.

Plus I guess not technically in my pocket, but I've been front horizontal carrying a leatherman (or sometimes a fixed blade with a pry bar clipped to it).

[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Wallet, keys and phone. Front pockets.

[-] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Left front phone. Right front knife or multitool. Coin pocket zippo. Rear right wallet, rear left key fob. On the occasion I have my keys me, they're on a short leather strap clipped to my belt loop in my right front.

Due to my job, all my jackets have a millimeter ruler and a staedler 319f marker in the front pocket, and my left inside pocket has a fountain pen with blue ink, and a pilot gtec C4 with black ink. Right Inside pocket has a hairtie, toothpicks, and a carved jade turtle figurine (skjoldpada).

[-] Beth@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Walkie, phone, pens, band aids, counter, whatever I found on the floor…whichever pocket has room.

[-] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

gasp

You just put stuff in your pockets all willy nilly!?

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Left front: phone

Right front: wallet and hand towel

Back belt loop: keys on caribeener

[-] kivihiili@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

maybe a hair tie or marker pen. sometimes tools (mainly wrenches). uhh not really any specific pockets we use for stuff, ,

Right: phone 1, phone 2, AirPods

Left: wallet, knife, car key.

[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Left pocket: phone and if I don't have a bag then also my secrid wallet behind my phone with my screen against my leg.

Right pocket: folding knife, dog poop bags

If it's cold then my vest has my gloves and toque when I get to warm.

If it is dark then I have a light clip on my chest in some way so the light is in shining on my path.

If I'm hiking light then I probably have an extendable hiking pole with folding water bottle.

[-] AliasVortex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I tend to keep a fair bit of my stuff clipped to my belt loops, not quite as streamlined and elegant as cramming everything in a pocket, but much easier to tell when something is missing (and far less likely to beat up my phone).

Front left pocket: wallet, multitool (Nextool s11)

Front left belt loop: noise cancelling earbuds (Sony WF-1000XM5)

Front right pocket: phone (pixel 9 pro xl)

Front right belt loop: keys

Hip right belt loop: work badge (when applicable)

[-] bender223@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

nice try fed 😛

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Depends where I am and weather, here in Japan, its

Front right: Phone

Front left: wallet+earbuds

Back right: keys/train tickets back

Back left: misc recipts

Inner jacket right: tissues+hand sanitizer

Inner jacket left: folding umbrella.

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't have pants pockets but my purse is to the left. I made it myself so I have a perfectly sized pocket for my phone towards the front, wallet in the middle, keys further back. Random whatever else goes in the main compartment

[-] bender223@lemmy.today 0 points 2 weeks ago

most days, I wear cargo pants, and I put my phone in right pocket, keys in left. and Bluetooth earbuds in lower left pocket , wallet in the lower right.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Cargo can be hard to find in the shops these days. I love it for air travel.

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