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.
Ha ha, well-played Jeff, you got us.
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.
front left is phone
front right is keys, weapons, 2nd phone, and wallet if no back pocket’s available
back right is wallet, important papers if they fit
back left is extra napkins if a restaurant gives me too many, face mask if I’m not wearing, maybe some other crap depending
that itty bitty pocket above the right pocket is mostly for found paper clips, found hair ties, loose change, lapel pins, or loose tacks that need for a different pinboard
I don’t use back left pocket for anything and my pants show it.
The tiny pocket is for a bic lighter
This was my rig until I got a cross-body bag. Now everything goes into the bag, except my phone. That way I don’t need to carry everything around while I’m at home; and I don’t need to keep loading / unloading my pockets at night or going out
This is me during warm weather. During winter the phone and wallet go into coat pockets. Sitting down is more comfortable with empty pants pockets.
In order…
- back right
- front right
- front left
If I’m wearing a coat, keys might go in the right coat pocket.
Phone left front.
Wallet goes in right cargo pocket or front right for jeans and slacks.
Keys in right front by default. When going to work they go in the backpack and in winter I put them in a zipped coat pocket on the left so they don’t end up under the seat belt.
Back pockets are usually empty because I don’t like sitting on things. Sometimes I put paper stuff back there like receipts or notes.
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 :)
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.
I can’t stand anything on my pockets anymore. Everything goes to the backpack, or purse/fanny pack. I saw a guy in a rave with a chest fanny pack and I’m curious about them.
Is this different from wearing a regular fanny pack diagonally across your chest/shoulder?
If you have your phone on the fanny pack, and you are dancing, the fanny pack is going to bounce and hit you in the chest. I usually use the fanny pack backwards, so when dancing it’s bounce and hits me on the ass, but that’s the best outcome.
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.
Right rear, handkerchief.
Right front, phone.
Right front inset, wedding ring and Aldi quarter.
Left front, keys & cards, formerly also hairties.
Left rear, left empty and used to carry garbage until I find a trashcan.
(If I’m wearing shorts without rear pockets, the handkerchief goes in with the phone.)
Why do you have your wedding ring in a pocket?
Because I take it off to wash dishes and touch-type, and it beats leaving it on desks and countertops.
Respect for the aldi quarter
Front left pocket is phone, rest is in a bag/man purse or jacket pocket. I hate having a bunch of shit in my pants pockets.
When I’m at work in my work gear my phone goes in my right pocket on my thigh wallet in the same pocket on the left,
Keys if I take them from the car go in the left regular pocket.
Pen and paint markers and ruler in left breat pocket.
In shorts phone in right wallet left keys left if I have them.
I used to keep my phone in my right breast pocket when working but as phones got bigger I stopped being able to button it up, this led to me bending over and dropping my phones a lot.
One time I did this twice left it on the ground the second time working in a paddock by myself,
Proceded to get my hand stuck and unable to reach the phone to call for help and had to stand there for 20 minutes until someone found me.
