EDC bag or sling in Chiang Mai?

[Old Curmudgeon]

 

This post asks what you put in your EDC bag or sling specific to Chiang Mai

or to Thailand.

 

EDC = Every Day Carry bag

 

Sling = like a "fanny pack" bag, but over your shoulder.

 

 

 

There are lots of YouTube videos about what to put in an EDC.

No need to go over that again on this thread.

 

Also lots of YouTube videos about which Sling bag to buy.

Again, no need to go over that again here.

 

For details, I've learned a lot from the YouTube channel, "MauriceMoves"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olk3EiDi0dg

 

The essential topic here is what items for Chiang Mai or Thailand.

Here's my list.

Looking for suggestions - specific to Chiang Mai or Thailand:

 

• My "papers, please" envelope. Copies of essential passport pages and 90-day report. Folded to fit into the plastic sleeve from my bank saving account passbook.  Not 100 waterproof, but pretty good.

   

• Years before the Covid hoax, I carried a cheap, surgical, face mask against pollution here. Still do for those really bad days.

   

• Used to carry Becker-Pirazzi Thai-English dictionary. It's heavy, but I know of none better.  Now mobile phone app instead.

   

• Toilet paper. Years ago, essential, but these days, most toilets in malls or offices have toilet paper, but not all.

   

• Tiny, rechargeable flashlight. These days very few electric blackouts in public buildings in Chiang Mai, but Boy Scout motto.

   

• "Want to buy" list. I consider shopping malls and supermarkets an annoying waste of time.  So if I must go into one, want to get everything I need there and then get out. So I have a list of things I "want to buy" someday. If I'm in, say, Big-C to buy light bulbs, I'll look at my list and buy socks or a new belt at the same time.

   

• A few "non-woven" shopping bags. The nonsense of "no plastic bags" started in Thailand a few years ago. Supermarkets do give out used cardboard boxes, but bags are so much easier to carry/  Non-woven bags only 5 baht each and fold down to almost nothing. I usually have 2 in my EDC bag.

 

• Super-tiny umbrella during rainy season. Just enough to get from front door of some building to arriving GRAB car. I used to carry a cheap, thin, plastic rain coat like motorcycle riders use. But those are bulky and once it gets wet, what to do with it.

 

Anything else useful in Chiang Mai in particular and Thailand in general?

 

 

 

[BritManToo]

Phone, wallet, extendable baton.

Sometimes my Kindle, if I'm going somewhere boring like immigration or court.

[msbkk]

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

Phone, wallet, extendable baton.

Sometimes my Kindle, if I'm going somewhere boring like immigration or court.

Extendable baton? Do you feel threatened here in Thailand? Or are you worried about Soi dogs?

[BritManToo]

11 minutes ago, msbkk said:

Extendable baton? Do you feel threatened here in Thailand? Or are you worried about Soi dogs?

Dogs!

Flick it out and they're gone.

[JBChiangRai]

Vibrator, hand cuffs, dog collar, butt plug

 

Seriously, I only use mine when flying, it's handy for passport, boarding card, powerbank and phone.  I don't use it any other time.

[Old Curmudgeon]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Dogs!

Flick it out and they're gone.

 

I never thought of that!

Specific to Thailand.

Good idea.

[Dante99]

10 hours ago, Old Curmudgeon said:

• My "papers, please" envelope. Copies of essential passport pages and 90-day report. Folded to fit into the plastic sleeve from my bank saving account passbook.  Not 100 waterproof, but pretty good.

   

• Years before the Covid hoax, I carried a cheap, surgical, face mask against pollution here. Still do for those really bad days.

   

• Used to carry Becker-Pirazzi Thai-English dictionary. It's heavy, but I know of none better.  Now mobile phone app instead.

   

• Toilet paper. Years ago, essential, but these days, most toilets in malls or offices have toilet paper, but not all.

   

• Tiny, rechargeable flashlight. These days very few electric blackouts in public buildings in Chiang Mai, but Boy Scout motto.

   

• "Want to buy" list. I consider shopping malls and supermarkets an annoying waste of time.  So if I must go into one, want to get everything I need there and then get out. So I have a list of things I "want to buy" someday. If I'm in, say, Big-C to buy light bulbs, I'll look at my list and buy socks or a new belt at the same time.

   

• A few "non-woven" shopping bags. The nonsense of "no plastic bags" started in Thailand a few years ago. Supermarkets do give out used cardboard boxes, but bags are so much easier to carry/  Non-woven bags only 5 baht each and fold down to almost nothing. I usually have 2 in my EDC bag.

 

• Super-tiny umbrella during rainy season. Just enough to get from front door of some building to arriving GRAB car. I used to carry a cheap, thin, plastic rain coat like motorcycle riders use. But those are bulky and once it gets wet, what to do with it.

out of all of that whouey there is only one thing that I carry 

 

 

[Old Curmudgeon]

[Dante99]

3 hours ago, Old Curmudgeon said:

Excellent, thank you, happy to have no further responses from you.

[Old Curmudgeon]

 

Anything else specific to Chiang Mai or Thailand?

 

I used to carry a little card that said, in Thai and English:

    "Don't put in any chili".

I'd point to a picture on a restaurant menu, then show the card to the waitress.

Worked well.

[Bill97]

2 minutes ago, Old Curmudgeon said:

 

    "Don't put in any chili".

 No please

 

No thank you 

 

yep that’s you

 

 

[Old Curmudgeon]

[novacova]

19 hours ago, Old Curmudgeon said:

This post asks what you put in your EDC bag or sling specific to Chiang Mai

or to Thailand.

 

my wife is the purse carrier of the household. I only need a wallet.

[Thailand]

On 12/3/2024 at 7:11 AM, BritManToo said:

Dogs!

Flick it out and they're gone.

Oh, the baton you mean!

[impulse]

On 12/3/2024 at 6:29 PM, Old Curmudgeon said:

Anything else specific to Chiang Mai or Thailand?

 

Salt & Pepper

 

[Bill97]

26 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Salt & Pepper

 

I could really use a small pepper bottle like that.  We’re can I get one?

[impulse]

14 minutes ago, Bill97 said:

I could really use a small pepper bottle like that.  We’re can I get one?

 

I bought mine at the Nguan Soon spice shop in BKK Chinatown, but I've seen them at Chatuchuk and MBK touristy shops.  I've never looked online, because I like perusing their shop.

 

https://www.nguansoon.com/

 

Shameless plug...  If you're ever in Bangkok Chinatown, their shop is a treasure.  In the small alley on the north side just outside the Wat Mangkon MRT stop.

 

[Old Curmudgeon]

Eye drops.

Especially in Chiang Mai.