What is in Your Sporran?

**Richland** · 16th May 06, 08:20 AM

I was told there are specific things which needed to be kept in your sporran
and if they were not present the challenger was owed a drink.
1) A shilling
2) A clean handkerchief
3) A flask of Scotch
Are ther other items required?
What is the history of this?
What do you keep in your Sporran?

**Freelander Sporrano** · 16th May 06, 08:30 AM

Heres's one Andrew Breecher sent me of a sporran I made for him

Yep! that's a bag of coffee

I should add that with the exception of the coffee my sporran contains about the same

Card wallet
Coin purse
Mobile
Car keeys
Pen and some paper

On Cally nights it contains a Dalvey Sporran cup (I'm saving for the flask)

**Nick** · 16th May 06, 08:48 AM

In general, wallet, car keys, monocle and case, pocket watch. It varies, but that's what's in mine.

**An t-Ileach** · 16th May 06, 08:51 AM

I think the shilling may have been one-and sixpence, because that was the limit under the old Vagrancy Act - if you had 1s/6d then you had visible means of support and were not liable to arrest as a vagrant. The other stuff was probably just in case you felt you were in need of "a little something".

In my sporran at the moment I've got a purse with some money in it, a credit card holder (actually it's a plastic Muji business card holder, but it's ideal for keeping all one's plastic cards safe), my house keys, a rigger's knife, and a handkerchief. Can't beat the bag of coffee.

**Caradoc** · 16th May 06, 09:16 AM

Originally Posted by An t-Ileach

a rigger's knife

At one time, someone asked me what all I kept in my sporran, and I pulled it all out...

My wallet.
Some coins in a small coin purse.
A Gerber Multi-Lock multitool.
An Inova X5 flashlight.
A flask.
A handkerchief.
An 8-port mini-hub (100Base/T) - including its wall-wart power supply
An extra mouse (optical, USB)
A cigarette lighter (I don't smoke)
A box of matches
A tinderbox, containing flint, steel, charcloth, tinder, and a small bone bead - a blowpipe to get the fire going
Cell phone (which no longer lives in the sporran - it has its own pouch on my hip)

The look on his face was priceless when I pulled the mouse out, and only got worse when the hub came out.

**Pour1Malt** · 16th May 06, 10:13 AM

in ma sporran ai carry whit Scots hae carried in they's sporran fur centuries...

wallet, keys, pen, mobile phone, digital camera....

**ByDand** · 16th May 06, 10:17 AM

Depends on which sporran I am wearing at the time. Most of the time it is keys, money clip, credit card holder, lighter and bar chips!

**bangkok kilt** · 16th May 06, 11:00 AM

money clip, credit card holder, mobile phone, ipod, and anything else I might need for the occasion (ie digital camera).

also, I've got to get me a freelander! if you can fit all that in there then it sure as heck beats the sporran I've got!

**ozmeath** · 16th May 06, 11:02 AM

An t-Ileach, good work with the vagrancy act homework there...
As for content, all the traditional utilities as stated by P1M: Keys, wallet, mobile phone and a packet of Fisherman's Friends. You guy's get them? Clears the nose and burns the retinas

**Kilted KT** · 16th May 06, 11:26 AM

hmm...I usually leave it up to the imagination of those asking...

as a side note...anyone in the UK willing to ship over a 1s/6p ? I'll send them comperable US funds. It sounds like something I'll need...vagrancy is not looked upon lightly down here...