A system including an article housing, a reel housing and a retractable cord is disclosed. The article housing may hold an article. The reel housing may hold a reel. The retractable cord may engage with the reel and the article housing. The retractable cord may extend from and retract into the reel housing. The article housing may include an openable flap at a bottom portion of the article housing. The openable flap may move between a covered position and an uncovered position. In the uncovered position of the openable flap, a portion of the article may get uncovered from the article housing. Further, the openable flap may include a flap length and a flap width. The flap length and the flap width may be less than a bottom portion length and a bottom portion width, respectively.

Methods and lanyard assemblies for retractably and compressively gripping an object are disclosed. The lanyard assembly includes a housing having a chamber and an aperture, a tether extending from the chamber through the aperture; and a retractor disposed in the housing, the retractor attached to the tether and exerts a tensile force on the tether. The tether includes a first end attached to the retractor and an end portion forming a loop having a variable size configured to be reduced by the tensile force of the retractor on the tether, and the loop is configured to grip the object within the loop.

A versatile ambidextrous pouch worn on the front central abdominal waist of user. provides quick access to handheld accessories for automotive detailing and other interchangeable tool uses, regardless of whether the user is right-handed or left-handed. The tool pouch enables both right-handed workers and left-handed workers to choose a primary, frequently used tool for the dominant hand of the worker and a secondary less used tool for the less dominant hand interchangeably, so that the primary tool can be advanced directly forward from the front central abdominal waist of the user, without awkwardly reaching across the abdomen to grasp a tool and move it angulary across the user's abdomen toward a work surface. Multiple other accessory tools are attached in and out of the pouch.