Everyday carry has a gravity problem: things get added after a single 'I wish I had…' moment and never get removed. Two years later you are carrying a kilogram of hedges against situations that happened once. The audit fixes that, and it takes twenty minutes twice a year.
Step one: dump everything — pockets, sling, keychain — onto a table. Everything. Step two: sort into three piles. Pile A is gear you used in the last month. Pile B is gear you used in the last year. Pile C is everything else.
Pile A goes back. That is your real carry, and it is almost always smaller than what you dumped: phone, wallet, keys, a light, and one or two tools. Pile B gets a judgment call — seasonal items and genuine emergency gear (a small IFAK you trained with) can stay, but each one has to argue for itself out loud. If the argument starts with 'but what if,' it loses.
Pile C does not go back in your pockets. It goes in a vehicle bin or a grab bag by the door. This is the audit's key move: you are not throwing preparedness away, you are staging it at the right distance. The bag in your truck can be generous; the gear on your body has to be honest.
Last: whatever survived, give it a fixed address. A loop-lined pocket, a pouch, a tray by the door. Gear with an address gets grabbed without thought and missed instantly when absent — which is the entire point of carrying it.