What are some small, pocketable/keychainable items that are worth carrying everywhere you go?

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A hardware security key, a knife and some pepper spray is usually what I have, plus my phone but thats a given
Edit: I live in a bad area haha
- I didn’t realize that even good areas are bad areas until I was homeless. Got jumped by a preppy-looking frat boy in a nice part of Boston.
  Now I carry the knife everywhere because it all feels dangerous to me now.
  
  Damn sorry to hear that. I got mugged when I was going through my photographer phase. Recommend pepper spray since its a lot more effective and gives you distance to run. My knife is more for everyday use in my case
  
  I couldn’t get pepper spray without a license, so I went with the knife.
  That law has since changed in MA, and I hope that my telling that story to Elizabeth Warren helped change it.
  I was utterly horrified to discover I couldn’t get pepper spray. I couldn’t even keep myself reliably enrolled in Mass Health, as awesome as it was.
  No license needed for a knife so I got that instead. Now since a knife can’t actually stop an attack very well, I had to use it as a deterrent.
  To do that I had to promise myself I would give anyone who attacked me life altering consequences. Once I had that established, I stopped getting fucked with.
  Before I armed myself, after the attack, it was like I had a crack in my aura. Predatory people could smell the fear on me. Had a few weird run-ins that almost turned into fights. One time a guy just put his hand out and stopped me. It was terrifying.
  The thing that hurt really bad about the attack was the way the guy stumbled drunkenly away, probably forgetting about me, having zero consequences. So at least I can prevent that from happening again.
  
  Boston
  the whole place is a bad area
- What's a hardware security key?
  
  Its a method of 2fa that uses a physical "key" a yubikey is an example if u wanna search it up
  
  Ahhhh, ok, thanks! Yeah, I'm aware of yubi. I was thinking it was some special key to open doors.

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