Daily and weekly(ish) carries 2026

Hey, I’m over my latest flu thingy! Which led me to think: what’s something I couldn’t do while cooped up inside? Carry things outside. This lead to a bit of a brainwave: everyone’s heard of a daily carry—one can only presume—but is there mass awareness of a weekly carry? I define the latter as a set of objects one takes for semi-frequent but not daily trips. Maybe they’re used on weekends, or on days off, and so on. The daily carry A ThinkPad Eco Toploader bag. I got it on steep discount with my ThinkPad E14, and it won me over. Wallet, keys, and sunglasses. I have Apple Pay set up as a backup, but I’m deliberately using my phone less thesedays. A Muji My Bottle. It’s compact, but even more importantly, flat. This means it doesn’t protrude from the bag. A Bic Cristal Re’New pen. They feel just as smooth and wonderful as those disposable Bic Finepoint and Cristal pens, but the cartridges can be replaced. A couple of small notebooks, which I’m still trying to figure out. Two iPhone SE…