My 2023 Altoids EDC Essentials Kit (Everyday Carry)

This tiny everyday carry Altoids tin kit can be carried in the pocket or any bag and will help solve problems and reduce friction in everyday life. A practical addition to your EDC essential gear, don't leave home without it.

This channel is here to give you ideas and inspiration when it comes to finding great Everyday Carry, Travel Gear and Gadgets, on the back of solid and detailed reviews alongside years of experience, which I hope will make life and travel just a little bit more frictionless and fun.

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Products Featured in the Video:

Altoids Tin

Self Amalgamating Tape

Gorilla Tape

Lever Gear Mini Cable Kit

Heat Shrink Tubing

Minimo Pen

Dyneema thread

Victorinox Alox Bantam

Mini Ferro Rod

Mini Magnet

Thin Gluestick

BIC Mini Lighter

Leatherman Micra

Olight i3E Flashlight

Mini Tin

Sewing Kit

Compressible Towel

RITR paper

Fresnel Magnifier

Thin Optics Glasses

Spartan Fire EDC Tinder

My name is Jonathan, I have a passion for all things gadget, travel and EDC (Everyday Carry), which has filled both my personal and work life for many years.

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Contents of this video to help you navigate:

00:00 - Altoids Tin EDC Kit Intro
00:48 - Tape x2
01:56 - Charging Cable
02:57 - Zip Ties
03:25 - Minimo Pen
03:55 - Dyneema Cord
04:34 - Victorinox Alox Bantam
05:35 - Mini Ferro Rod
06:02 - Fishing Magnet
06:25 - Glue Stick
07:34 - BIC Mini Lighter
08:02 - Leatherman Micra
09:08 - Olight i3e
10:18 - Mini Tin
11:33 - Flat items
12:59 - Everything has its place

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JonGadget

[vgamedude]

Something is so satisfying about seeing all these little gadgets stacked inside there.

[Scotland]

May suggest keeping emergency contact numbers written inside the field notes in case of mobile phone loss.

[DonaldChapman]

One of the best Altoids EDC kits ever put together.

[toms_dayoff]

In my pre-teen days in the '80s, I had a small green plastic box (bike repair kit) with some matches, some band-aids, and some fishing gear. Later a harpoon tip was added, filed from a strip of sheet metal. You always had a pocket knife in your sack anyway, just like a clean handkerchief.
So we went looking for adventure in the local forests and dreamed of a life as a trapper with the Inuits. 😄😄😄

[jamierepa]

Usually I'm lucky if I get one good idea from these videos, today I got five. Thank you.

[dylanmonaghan]

What a refreshing video i grew up making altoids tin kits like 10 years ago now im 21 and i still enjoy the same thing

[ba]

Pound for pound, this may be one of the most well thought out ‘EDC’ kits. Bravo, sir, bravo.

[TestSpaceMonkey]

Another compact alternative for that tinder sheet might be birthday candles - they are also compact and give you some reach/flame duration for lighting things. Bonus: if you find some of the gag/novelty ones that can't be blown out they are quite wind resistant too!

[puffytuffet]

Great ideas! I hate carrying a purse everywhere and would love to just be able to grab my phone and a tin and go. Mine will have to be adapted with an emergency tampon and a chap stick, but a lot of the other stuff will be the same. Thanks for the ideas!

[choppermike]

Hey Jon, those alkaline batteries tend to leak quite often and end up ruining your light. A lithium battery will never leak and will last many times longer than a alkaline. Worth the money. Great video.

[GeneralE.]

This is absolutely a MacGyver's basics EDC kit for the common person (of course, he is not your ordinary run-of-the-mill person). I love it!

[mkierna]

Very nice and practical kit. My suggestion is to replace the rubber band that you used to hold the kit closed with an elastic ponytail holder. Rubber bands tend to dry rot. The cloth covered retail holders do not and yet perform essentially the same function as a?rubber band.

[drewkulenguski]

i kept a altoids tin for a while that kept all my papers, tips, lighter and used the lid as a tiny rolling tray. Absolutely perfect setup for rolling small j's. So convenient. Now i dont smoke so i just have one for camping with simple firestarting stuff in it but when i did that was the best altoid tin use id ever found

[Sanguivore]

This is such a cool and well-thought-out Altoids EDC kit! :D Thanks for sharing!

[aamadeus]

I wasn’t planning to create an EDC kit but after watching your video, I am totally going to! I really enjoyed how organized and how well-thought out the items are. They don’t just look great they actually work. Thank you for your video.

[juansmith]

A masterpiece of efficiency. I say in all sincerity that of the scores of Altoids tin kits I have seen on Youtube (and my own efforts as well) yours is truly a masterpiece. 👍👍👍👍👍

[ghostmaloneedc]

I think the micra is highly underrated, I carry one myself in a kit every day. Fantastic small multi tool.

[milododds]

Reducing friction in every day life is a great goal. Amazing how you were able to find the narrowest and slimmest things, I can see it’s all high quality. Magnet fishing is a great idea. Yeah extra meds are important, Benadryl can save a life which it did for a kid who showed up at our baseball field who had a nut reaction to cashews.

[seastins]

Very nice altoid box but i think a victorinox compact is better in this box to save some space. With the compact you have the pen already, the scisors, blade, bottle opener and you can replace the toothpic with the firesteel. The micra, the pen and the lose firesteel is not needed anymore and you save some space. It's just my opinion. Anyway a nice kit. 👍

[johnkearns]

Quick tip for storing the duct tape. Find some wax paper - the sort of stuff you'd get on a roll of white adhesive labels for envelopes or a kid's sticker sheet. The duct tape peels off really easy.

Just found all this EDC stuff a few weeks ago and made a similar tin just before a small driving holiday with the kids. Already saved the day by repairing a kite on the beach with the gorilla tape. Great stuff.