If you are looking for my first ever gear post, it is actually my 2024 post. This post is for reference purposes. Please see the 2024 post before this one.






I began my minimalist onebag adventure by combining my EDC bag, gym bag, and travel bags. After this I began paring down that setup and replacing components to save space, weight, and lower possession count. A lot of my items I still use today came from around the time I took this photo in 2023. I had another onebag setup in 2022 but it was primitive and I actually lost the photo. Anyway, I posted this very photo on the reddit page r/Onebag and I remember it doing well although I deleted the account for some reason?


Clothes:

I had been experimenting with this idea of only owning one shirt as pictured. I eventually wanted more layers for cold weather and something more formal than just a t shirt. This is when I first purchased the MerinoProtect shirt I am still using in 2024, as well as my Wooly shorts.

My pants were Vans brand chinos in grey. I actually stumbled into black jeans kind of on a whim. Black top and grey bottom was my initial recipe for an outfit.

I used a $3 thrifted North Face 1/4 fleece pull over as a jacket however it was too thin down to anything below 50 degrees F.

I was using a $50 Eddie Bauer rain jacket I had purchased to start working as a longhaul semi truck driver, but this was very heavy. Almost double the weight of my current Eddie Bauer - which I love.

Underwear has been the same.

I had also just purchased my beloved Native Jefferson shoes which replaced my old Vans Ultrarange EXO. Those were good shoes, I used them for all occasions. Even work, at that time I was doing Doordash, Grubhub, and UberEats full time. (Fun fact - that year was the only year I did not have a separate work uniform.)

The socks pictured are actually really good socks, but super fragile. They disintegrated after 3~ months. I use my Darn Tough socks in my work shoes all day and every week. If you are not working a laborious type job I would actually recommend these Smartwool socks over Darn Tough.


Tech / Misc.

For a bag I actually first started off with a $300 Victorinox Brunswick briefcase/ messenger bag which is quirky for onebagging and I couldn’t pack for all seasons.. But it was my EDC bag I was using at that time. This is when I was working in a office setting as a paralegal. Anyway I resorted to a cheap Jansport Plus. $41 I think it was. These are really popular for kids in school so I knew I wanted something different eventually. However the Jansport bags weigh only 12 ounces I think which is impressively lightweight.

I moved from a gaming PC & Macbook combo to my current Lenovo X1 laptop.

My old charging setup is pictured here. This 30w wall charger was nice but it caused issues with my laptop. I was using an iPhone at this time so I had the lightning cable as well as a USB-C cable.

My toiletries kit, headphones, Buff, were the same.

I had a nice Victorinox watch I eventually sold on eBay. Wasn’t really into it. I would pick and choose days I would wear it - then that just became months where I wouldn’t wear it.

I used a little sock of a wallet. It was a tiny slip of stretchy fabric that held like 1-5 cards. I eventually just started buying phone case wallets.

I had this small blue cloth I used like a chair to sit down in random places without getting my pants dirty.

I was using a black cloth case for my eyeglasses because the Jansport backpacks do not have very good organization pockets, and I was concerned about scratches.

Also, because of the lack of organization pockets. I had a mesh bag for storing all the small misc. things I liked to carry at that time.



Thanks for reading.
-Nick Branson