Now I have one in my work bag, at least one in the car, one in my main toolbox, a few hiding around other places in the garage, one in the kitchen, probably one upstairs, on in my desk drawer, etc.
No regrets. Life is better now.
I also have a keychain one that lives on my house keys, which has come in handy a few times (even if it is limited to 6 feet).
You can't do it with everything but, for example, I tend to have a stocked travel kit that I don't need to raid (for the most part) for everyday charging gear. My laptops live where they live and I'll bring their chargers with them; they basically don't move unless I'm traveling. My office has some tools and my garage has some tools. I may need to raid one or the other but not for routine stuff.
I certainly don't need to bring a downstairs charger upstairs to charge my iPhone at night.
As you said, you can’t do this for everything; some things are too expensive or take too much room to have a million duplicates of, but I don’t feel like I lose those things as much.
The things I feel like I loose are generally relatively inexpensive, like pens or scissors or screwdrivers. I got lasik so I don’t need them anymore, but i used to have 10 of the $7.95 pairs of glasses spread out everywhere as well, in case I lost a contact lens at work or something.
Aliexpress is kind of a godsend for me. A lot of tools on there in particular are shockingly good.
Also I replaced a few receptacles in my house with ones that have USB-C ports on them. Then I never have to worry about them walking off...
Mazda 323’s used to open each other too, and also Ford Lazers. These problems don’t seem to happen anymore, but at some cost.
The whole household uses them
It contains:
- sharpie
- pen: https://amazon.com/dp/B005Y0T8C2
- postit full-stick notes pad
- cutter of all: https://amazon.com/dp/B000VYOISU
- opener of all the things: https://amazon.com/dp/B0017DGTSG
- diagonal cutter - any decent, but I like klein: https://amazon.com/dp/B0000302W8
at first I questioned myself duplicating stuff. Was I being a hoarder? But honestly, it has paid off 1000x
The stuff you have there is all pretty small and not terribly expensive, so I don't think it's very hoard-ey.
I did have to get rid of a lot of my computer equipment that I was hoarding...rack mount servers are sort of addictive because they're inexpensive and powerful, so I had a bunch of them taking up way too much room in my basement. I've given all of them away to friends and coworkers and replaced them with a few tiny gaming PCs.
In my EDC case / kit(s) I tend to add a pair of grippy pliers instead of cutting pliers - think Knipex Cobra or the Knipex parallel pliers for grabbing / tightening stuff.
the other "cutter" is just a very good letter opener
You may be right, I use it much less frequently (but when I do use it, it is the right tool).
I used to never be able to find a screwdriver when I needed it, so now I have seven screwdrivers: three regular ratcheting, three stubby ratcheting, and a ratcheting one that lives in my pocket. I keep a regular ratcheting on my desk, in my living room, and in my bedroom, which are the only places I would realistically ever use these things.
As a result there's really no reason for me to lose it; it's already contained into the area that it already lives.
I do this with a lot of stuff now. Separate chargers for my laptop for my desk and my bed, separate iPhone chargers, and a bunch of other stuff.