A Day in the... Knife? Daily, What do you actually use your EDC for?

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Just curious as to what an average day of of usage would look like for you and your EDC(s). As a relative knife newbie, I am interested in the extent your knives are used for day to day tasks and what kind of tasks.

With me, I generally carry a 3”-3.5” bladed folder. A lower priced American Spyderco or Benchmade.

I open shipping boxes (Amazon and the like), plastic toy/electronics packaging, mail, a bit of food prep and the odd plastic tie or rope/cord. Basically trying to replace digging in a drawer for a pair of scissors every time I need to cut something. A sharp knife in my pocket is just easy and. I have more effective.

I likely use a knife around 10x a day. More at the cottage or working around the house.

What about your daily knife usage?
 
Well today, I'm working in the yard ripping out some unsightly dying succulents along my driveway..always have my half serrated Lightning OTF on. This thing is great around the house. Use it to cut trimmer line, tape, boxes..etc.
Later on when I run my errands, I put my usual EDC on. Sometimes, it never comes out of my pocket but I feel absolutely helpless without a knife on me always :-)
 
Whatever life throws at you. When a knife is actually needed, there is rarely a substitute.

Running out the door today, the wife was cooking and the kid lost the can opener. Busted out my Military in M4 which was recently chosen for actual edc. Had that can open in 15 seconds then left for work. Made for a great stress reliever.
 
Typical day is opening packages / mail, breaking down some boxes, food prep cutting sandwiches. I prefer my EDC to any steak knife in our kitchen for eating diner. She cuts wire ties, rope and everything in between. Ok maybe not rope but those damn threads from walking on the cuffs of my pants :) I do like to whittle / carve sometimes too. Lots of use around camp in the summer.
 
Not counting MT use, my most common usage is cutting the end off of my cigars. Occasional use includes cutting Styrofoam shipping containers, cutting old hose, envelopes, boxes, etc. Nothing exciting. For the first time ever, I used my EDC knife on food last week, re-cutting take out pizza. :D
 
open mail, scrape the dirt from under my finger nails, had a piece of rubber tangled up under my car and sliced through it like a champ. I carry a spyderco Endura in ZDP189
 
Daily, I used to use a knife to open bags of sand/powders at a steel foundry, and cut numerous things involved in the roofing trade. My current job I use a knife to cut the plastic wrapping off of pallets of glass and I'm currently considering a new EDC work knife with an exposed gut hook to replace the little T-handle box cutter they provided to cut the actual individual packaging off the glass bundles...

At home, today was a lazy day and I used my knife only to open a package from UPS.
 
Today, I helped free an escaping piece of thread that was on my shirt, reamed some PVC pipe, cut some foam insulation for a water tie in, scraped some sort of goo off a PVC pipe for a glue joint and removed a couple of splintered pieces of wood that would have poked me otherwise.
 
Ajack60 said:
Today, I helped free an escaping piece of thread that was on my shirt, reamed some PVC pipe, cut some foam insulation for a water tie in, scraped some sort of goo off a PVC pipe for a glue joint and removed a couple of splintered pieces of wood that would have poked me otherwise.
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A respectable day's work for a pocket knife. :)
 
Usually;

At my office job, I open boxes, break down boxes, cut open little plastic bags, cut packing foam and Styrofoam, etc.

At my landscaping job, erosion mat, planters fabric, plastic sheeting, bags, lots of bags, roots, trimmer string, etc.

At home, food, fruit, the stray thread, packages, mail, this and that, everything else I could regurgitate about, etc.

The one thing I don't do, and kinda don't understand, is trimming fingernails.
 
T. Erdelyi said:
A respectable day's work for a pocket knife. :)
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And all done with this one. Who says people don't use their CRK's ;)

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