pocket litter
Forgotten small items
Pocket litter is the miscellaneous personal items someone carries—receipts, ticket stubs, coins, keys, scraps of paper.
In intelligence and military contexts, it refers specifically to such items planted on an agent or corpse to support a false identity: They supplied him with pocket litter to back up his cover story.
The term emphasizes how revealing these mundane objects can be about a person's movements and habits.
- loose changeMiscellaneous small currency
- spare changeExtra coins on hand
- receiptsTransaction documentation
- movie stubsTorn admission slips kept
- handkerchiefPocket cloth for sniffles
tissues · lint · candy wrappers · coins · gum · matchbooks · business cards · pens · train schedules · profiling · napkins · serial numbers · small change · counterintelligence · flyers · shopping lists · sticky notes · field notes
pocket littereveryday carry
Personal items always carried
EDC · essentials · curated items · must-haves · personal effects
pocket littervaluables
Possessions of significant worth
essentials · treasures · wallet · heirlooms · keys
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