Those things you don't really need, but take anyway

[pmulcahy11b]

What items did you or your characters take with them, even though you didn't really need them anyway?

When I was in, I always had a couple of books in plastic bags, as well as a cassette player and tapes (I preferred the cassettes because they were less likely to get damaged than CDs). Every other member of the squad also had a roll of toilet paper in their ruck.