I'm actually undergoing a pockets-identity-crisis, at the moment. For about two decades, I've had a key chain with a leather card case attached, and carried my id, credit cards, library cards, etc. in that so I would be incapable of leaving the house without my driver's license and money. Thing is, I also, as a matter of course, stow in my (usually coat) pockets sunglasses, chapstick, and, these days, my phone every time I leave. Indeed, all these things live in a basket on the coat rack, along with my pill box and a small wallet of less vital cards, to be grabbed and stowed on the way out.

I'm considering putting all my cards in the little wallet and taking the card case off my key chain, for better pocket distribution when its my pants and not my coat. But it's a big and alarming step!

And then, of course, there's my actual work bag, which contains
-my iPad
-small pad of paper
-books for that day's classes
-my second largest usb drive
-a selection of pens and pencils
-chapstick
-a tiny and sharp switchblade for opening boxes
-a small umbrella in one outside pocket
-one sunglasses case in the other to keep them handy on walks to and from work

But the keys-cards-phone combo is always on me, and I feel irrationally anxious about breaking up the keys-cards set. Even if it probably will make stowage easier in anything other than my wonderfully oversized general coat with pockets that will hold a paperback book. (I love that coat.)