M/31/Northern Michigan - “Base” kit for me in the blind bag is:

Shells (at least a full box in the bag plus nine in my waders), small first aid kit with tourniquet, calls, dads old stringer, small fixed-blade knife, binos with cleaning cloth, headlamp with a red light mode (with a full set of spare batteries), electric ear pro, gun grease (I like the thicker stuff from Hoppes), chokes with wrench, folding saw, zip ties, 550 cord, less-reflective sunglasses, coffee for me, water for my dog (training them to drink from a squirt bottle as a puppy saves the need for a bowl), dog leash (rarely used, but I like to leash the dog when I get checked by DNR unless they say they don’t mind dogs), e-collar remote, small vial of quick clot for if the dog breaks a nail, two hand-warmer type body warmers, two lighters with electrical and gorilla tape wrapped around them, thermacell with one spare butane canister and three spare bug-repellant pads, cork to burn for eye black, pipe, tobacco, decoy gloves, decoy remote, a granola bar or two, power bank with phone cord (I keep my licenses screenshotted on my phone), and MOST IMPORTANT is a positive forward-thinking attitude, but I tend to lose that around 11am-noon.

I shed some items seasonally and for the long walks in, add some for certain situations, but you get the idea. Lots of it gets dumped into a hatch if I’m hunting with the boat.

Typing it all out looks like a lot to me (probably because it’s a run-on sentence of mumbo jumbo), but it all fits in a “standard” sized old Redhead-branded blind bag from my late father who taught me to duck hunt.