after looking at my players character sheets i realised they ask for some very odd items such as

a book on birds of the calixis sector

a beck of cards with naked ladies

nail file

mens hygiene kit

a cuddly toy

and the strangest a small bottle of handcream so i was wondering do any of your players spend more time searching for odd bit of kitt than trying to complete assignments if so what????

What's so very odd about those items ? Seems like pretty normal things people would like to take with them when going on an extended journey (such a s service in the Inquisition). Right, you won't need those ladies, the grooming kit or the cuddle pet in combat with vile heretics ... but surely afterwards !

I actually hate it when I take a look at a players equipment sheet or notes and only find combat stuff, ammo, weapons or non-personal items ...

Sure, there's a line between a realistic traveling gear (as most characters in RPGs are rather mobile) and a sheet full of ridiculous stuff, but I tend to like it when my players characters are well defined and interesting personalities who need more things to life than just 'a galaxy of guns'.

Well, the Scum has recently acquired a dank hole. That might count as odd.

The Psyker's most precious possession (and, I believe, his psy focus) is an elaborate hipflask, but I think we can forgive him that, given the horrors he faces on a daily basis. And the fact that he risks getting the shakes if he doesn't keep a drink handy at all times.

Oh, and the dank hole is to keep her giant bug-things in, the legs of which taste very good fried. She's slowly but surely setting up a fast-food franchise she's hoping to one day take sector-wide.

During our brief foray into Rogue Trader, my Seneschal's first acquisition was an elaborate violin and matching case, so he could study the logical progression of notes and the theories of famed classical musicians across the sector in the cold of the void.

And.... I suppose I could hide a gun in there if I really wanted to...

As already said, as long as the numbers are "1 to 3 personal items per pc" I would salute this approach if my players would take it. It shows that their pc are more to them then just stats for getting tasks/missions done but "persons". And they try to develope/underscore this personalities with some personal items. A guardsmen with the best possible combat loadout becomes a rounded fighter. A guardsmen with a flute he used to play back in the days when he was a young shepherd boy on his homeworld (and plays them from time to when not in battle circumstances) becomes a rounde character.

While the "naked ladies cards" are a bit "common", the handcreme-thing is very nice. Is the pc in question from a hive? Or an imperial world? It shows some kind of civilzation... and that he is either not used to harsher climates or that he knows about them and tries to prepare.

Of course, there is the chance that your player just try to play "smarter then the GM": Okay, I try to struggle myself out of this rope knotted around my wrists. Should not be to much of a problem since my hands are greased from my thrice-daily application of skin lotion!

Last weekend the following situation came up: Half of the party was guarding the top of an elevator shaft 300 meters above the other half of the group who decided to haul up some extra ammunition and grenades up the shaft (yes, they were in combat in active war zone and no, the elevator wasn't working). Luckily all of them had previously decided to discard their backpacks and climb up the shaft with just guns and the ammo they could shove into pockets and webbing so the two guys down had plenty of backpacks to use for carrying extra ammo and explosives up the shaft. However, they had to first empty the backpacks.

The contents of the first backpack were a bit alarming... Their feral world guardsman had gone into combat zone with standard issue troopers kit (bedroll, mess kit, hygiene kit, rain-poncho and imperial uplifting primer) all hastily packed into the backpack, plus an assortment of severed teeth, hair, scalps and one dry, 10 inch long, tentacle-like mutants tail... Understandably the guys downstairs were a bit bothered when all this came out of the backpack.

However, then they came across the backpack of their void-born assassin. It had the exact same standard issue troopers kit, nicely folded and packed and... Nothing else. This made them seriously worried... I mean what kind of jaded sociopath leaves her homeship and goes to a combat zone in foreign world with absolutely not a single piece of personal equipment?

One of my characters had "the Emperor's Skateboard"

What? As well as the "totally kickass pistol"

Funniest was probably "matches" to light the candles Clerics start with.