I’ve a Travelers Notebook cover in A5, possibly of unofficial Chinese origin but quite fit for purpose.
It does quite well at carrying a Cousin, a similar notebook, and a wallet insert, along with a solid handful of pens, and my keys on a strap run through the pen loop.
The one thing I’ve had trouble making part of my system - right or wrong - is a method of carrying a handful of cigarettes and a lighter.
Right now that task falls to a flip top cigarette case that I replace ~annually due to wear, with a pouch for the zippo as well as one for an emergency disposable lighter.
This being a creative community by nature, thought I’d look for ideas or products fitting the bill that have worked for others.
If a product exists akin to the wallet insert, even if I had to load smokes one-deep as with metal cases, that might suffice. Haven’t seen anything that “just straps on”.
Bonus points if said wallet style insert includes someplace suitable to cram a handful of spare pills for when I’m out longer than expected, etc.
As of now, I’ve nearly managed to fit my whole life in there. Carried a backpack for years, mostly to handle the small ephemera, but I’ve recently had my shoulder worked on so that’s a bit of a challenge.
Mostly, a bottle of tylenol and the like, along with smoker’s paraphernalia, are what end up in there along with the notebook. Seems a bit of a waste if the lot could all fit together.
You’re going to laugh at me, but despite all my Zippos and peanut lighters and titanium EDC whatsists, my current favorite lighter that I’m rocking every day at the moment is one of these. Not the Bob Marley pot leaf eight ball skull and crossbones variety. I just have a plain neon green one. But altogether it’s only a shade over 3mm thick at its widest point which is up at the top where the fill port is. The body is wedge shaped and would almost taper down to an ice scraper edge at the tail end if it weren’t rounded over. It’s made to be slipped into a traditional flip top cardboard cigarette pack but you can slip it into just about anything, including the otherwise useless business card holder in many folios, or a credit card slot in your wallet.
I can’t help you for a strap-on low profile cigarette case. I just use a plain single layer metal one.
