What if you’re wearing cargo pants?
What if you’re wearing a shoulder bag?
What if you’re wearing something with only two pockets?
What if you have a jacket on?
Where, oh where do your things go???
Nice try, FBI.
Nice try, local pickpocket.
If I just have pants/shorts:
- Front Left: Phone. This is what I mainly hold my phone in, and dictates where everything else goes
- Front Right: Slim bifold wallet and keys.
- Rear pockets: Nothing. I don’t like the feeling of sitting on anything. It also might be needless anxiety, but I feel like I could be pick pocketed more easily if I had anything in my rear pockets.
If I’m wearing a sports coat, which isn’t often, I’ll put my phone in my right interior pocket, and my wallet and keys in my left interior pocket. Mostly since I can then reach in with my left hand to get my phone.
If I need to carry more items I’ll use a small satchel or something. All of this sounds convoluted, but makes sense in my head. Also, I don’t wear jeans, haven’t for years. They’re not very flattering from behind and they always manage to pull on my leg hairs somehow.
All of this sounds convoluted, but makes sense in my head.
Makes sense to me. I do something similar mainly to avoid tiny scratches on my phone screen. I hadn’t considered coordinating the coat pockets with the pant pocket system, but I might do that too now 😄
Women don’t usually get pockets so everything goes in my bag. But tbh the bag helps my adhd as well, if I always keep everything in the bag I won’t lose it or forget where I put it.
So many doing front left for phone, that’s just weird to me unless you’re left handed.
Front Right: Phone
Back Left: Flattened & folded plastic shopping bag(s)
Back Right: Wallet
Belt Hooks: Keys
Front left is the ‘all the other shit’ pocket. Currently this contains:
- 6 flash drives totalling around 500GB
- Lighter
- £4.25 in loose change
- Flipper 0
- Trolley token
- Multitool with knife, needle, pen, tweezers, ruler, magnet, cross driver
- 3 dog shit bags (empty)
I’m guessing it’s so the phone doesn’t interfere with a weapon
Not weird at all. I reach into my left pocket for my phone with my left hand and am ready to operate it with my right hand. Having it in my right pocket would be awkward.
Is your phone a zweihänder or something? I think the last time I reliably used a phone with both hands was back in the days of tapping out texts on a keypad in T9. Needed both thumbs for decent wpm.
Or I’m misreading and it’d get in the way of something else?
Right seems right for me, in both pocket and operation. Whatever works though, at the end of the day :)
Nice try, pickpocket. Nice try…
Front right
- Pocket knife
- Earbuds
- Keys
Front left
- Phone
- Vape
Rear right
- Wallet
Rear left
- Free Parking
For two-pocket pants, the wallet goes in the front left.
Nice try, pickpocket!
My jeans very rarely have actual pockets, so sometimes they have a back pocket for transporting my phone small distances, but if I’m going out it all goes in my handbag.
My phone is in my left pocket, my wallet in my right pocket, my keys are hooked on my belt and I have a handkerchief in my right backpocket. When I’m wearing cargo pants the handkerchief goes in one of the cargo pockets, the rest stays the same.
Are you me? I do the same!
Am I you or are you me?
I always wear cargo shorts or pants when not home. Wranglers with the “tech pocket” meant for a phone.
Left front - phone, Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS. I used to carry it in the tech pocket but it’s too easy for a thief to grab.
Right front - house keys. On a suspension clip is the car key.
Left rear - a folding box cutter, has it’s own pocket clip.
Right rear - Gerber Dime on a suspension clip
Left cargo pocket - two small hand sanitizer bottles. One contains unscented soap because I can’t stand the perfume infused garbage in public washrooms.
Right cargo - Wallet and coin organizer.
Phone in one pocket, keys and wallet share a pocket.
It doesn’t matter if I am in cargo shorts or have a jacket with pockets.
Right pocket: Car key mini dongle. I finally found something perfect for that pocket-inside-pocket thingy jeans have.
Left pocket: SnusEverything else goes in the jacket, as I I almost always wear it outside.
Knife, keys, and pen go into left pocket, phone goes into right pocket, wallet goes into back right or right cargo pocket depending on what I’m wearing.
Bags and jackets don’t change the base config, they just allow for more stuff. The exception is motorbike gear - then things move to the jacket pockets for comfort/accessibility.
I don’t have the issue of only having two pockets because I simply don’t buy regular pants/shorts with such a poor pocket selection.
I distinctly remember a time around when smartphones were becoming commonplace, when I swapped my left and right pocket contents because I started needing to grab my phone a lot more often.
