{"id":2054,"date":"2016-03-09T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:38:22","slug":"ny-times-style-mag-makes-it-official-edc-and-multi-tools-are-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2054","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Style mag. makes it official: EDC and multi-tools are cool!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's in the NY Times Style section! Your EDC (every day carry) things like the small flashlight<\/a>, the swiss army knife<\/a>, the fire starter<\/a>, a leatherman wave<\/a>, even the Israeli trauma bandage<\/a> – you're in with the in-crowd if you carry them!<\/p>\n

\"ThruNite\"<\/a><\/p>\n

in fact, you are groovy.<\/p>\n

Article below (FULL DISCLOSURE<\/strong><\/span>: Everything I linked to above, I own + more… guess I'm a geeky gear guy. Not that I carry it all every day). If you hit the link it's only seven  somewhat amusing paragraphs.<\/p>\n

The art of equipping yourself for the battle of the everyday.<\/a><\/p>\n

About four years ago, I began carrying with me everywhere I went a gentleman\u2019s pocketknife, first-aid supplies and a small high-powered flashlight. These new items seemed a natural extension of an intensifying handiness that also had me filling tiny Muji containers with the toiletries I needed on daily trips to the pool. As my kit grew, my Internet searches began turning up people on blogs and forums who had pockets and bags full of strikingly similar gear. They called their assortments \u2018\u2018everyday carry.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Everyday carry (or E.D.C.) denotes what you carry wherever you go. It is a niche preparedness culture that is lately becoming mainstream; amid the groundswell, it has been called a \u2018\u2018movement,\u2019\u2019 a \u2018\u2018mindset\u2019\u2019 and even a \u2018\u2018philosophy,\u2019\u2019 for it also connotes a heightened consciousness about what you carry and why. The objects in an individual\u2019s E.D.C. may be as unremarkable as keys, a cell phone and a wallet, but might be as various as a brass marine shackle or a tourniquet, a seatbelt cutter or a small multipurpose tool that looks like a seahorse, a reclining monkey or a gaping tyrannosaur. E.D.C. sites are awash in lovingly curated still lifes of all this \u2014 a murse dump with occasional Glocks.<\/p>\n

Underlying E.D.C.\u2019s new popularity, as the provisioner and educator Bryan Black explains, is a growing perception of risk that outpaces any growth in the frequency of actual risks that one might encounter.<\/p>\n

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It's in the NY Times Style section! Your EDC (every day carry) things like the small flashlight, the swiss army knife, the fire starter, a leatherman wave, even the Israeli trauma bandage – you're in with the in-crowd if you carry them! in fact, you are groovy. Article below (FULL DISCLOSURE: Everything I linked to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8073,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/8073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}