I swim in my hiking shorts, although once I didn't have any shorts on a public beach so I tied a kind of loincloth out of a rolled scarf which worked pretty well and made me look like an anorexic sumo
I use safety pins for sewing repairs, popping blisters and pinning wet clothes to my pack to dry. I could probably use them for other purposes too but I'm too dumb to work it out
Use my pot as a pestle and mortar by crushing seeds etc with a flat rock inside. Its also my piss jar so I don't have to leave my tent at night- just to chuck it out
Baseball hat and bandana becomes a legionnaire sun hat. The bandana has a few uses too - I carry bundles of sticks for a fire, wet it at streams for evaporative cooling around my neck in high heat, I use it as a scarf as a "plug" to trap heat that would rise up the chimney of my shirt, I replaced a broken strap with my bandana once, I used it as a lifting strap to put the weight of a shopping bag onto my wrist not fingers over a distance, I dry my hair and wash my face with it, prefilter water and gather berries in it.
