… what do you keep them in?
For donkey's years I've used pretty much the same picks: bog standard Gibson 'medium' for electric, and Jim Dunlop .73mm slightly flexible ones for acoustic. I've had periodic forays into tortex, only to confirm that I hate them. Flirted with stubby's but I'm too ham-fisted.
Relatively recently a pedal game with a promo Gravity pick, and to my amazement I really liked it. So much so that for electric it's now pretty much all I use, and I've bought a limited selection of different shapes/edges to play with to settle on The One.
Which is all well and good, but … my crappy old 50/60p a go picks used to fit nicely in the generic pick holder things where you shove 5 or 6 into a sprung container, like a gun magazine for picks. The Gravity picks are slightly over-size for one of those. As a result, I've just been leaving them in my pocket loose, but then they get in the way, or get caught up in my wallet, and then fall out at awkward moments and ultimately get lost. Which at £4 a pop pisses me off.
Having looked up the prices of the picks mentioned in the Expensive Picks thread I realise I'm still basically a total peasant even at £4 a go. Even so, it's still £4 and I wouldn't casually throw four pound coins on the floor periodically and think it was an acceptable loss.
So what handy pocket-sized pick holding gizmos are out there for slightly larger picks?
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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Ebay mark7777_1
I've used it ever since
I also have a dirty riffs plectrum tin stuck to my pedal board with a few spares.
Sorry I misread the thread title...
Failing that I guess I'll just stick to leaving them in guitar cases and a tin in my cable case (which tends to be the one constant thing) and just tuck a single pick in my pocket, away from my stupid wallet. Or get a better wallet. But I've seen how that turns out in Off Topic
Just had a thought, if you don't need to carry that many, when you buy a stylus for a turntable, they sometimes come in small circular metal tins which fit in your pocket.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiger-Guitar-Plectrums-Medium-Picks/dp/B003V5ANB2/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537694594&sr=8-1-spons&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=Pick+tin&psc=1
Got given one of these cases years ago for my birthday and keep my current spare picks in it in the front of my gig bag: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B071V7T53Z/
Also have a cleaned out nivea men creme tin for the rest of my picks (worn ones, ones I don't use anymore, experiments etc)
It's not so much that I need to carry that many, I've just got into the habit of having a couple in my pocket "just in case". Mostly to cover (relatively rare) situations when I'm not planning on playing, but get mugged into it, or when I'm running late and forget to pick up the right thing or whatever. Having them stuffed into something pick shaped but a little bulkier just makes it all easier.
If I'm actually heading out to play properly for something, I'll (usually) have various tins/containers of spares in different bits of kit that will be with me. Guess it's just a psychological quirk, rather than a need <twitches eyes>