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Am I nuts!

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Dano1987

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I can't quit buying knives. I've bought about 10 spydercos in the last 2 months. Today I bought a buck fixed blade on impulse. And now I have a civilian and a ss delica coming. I gotta stop spending!
 
Don't worry you will run out of cash soon enough. You can't keep it up forever.

My advice buy a knife and force yourself to use that as your main EDC with the occasional rotation of another knife so you learn all it's strengths and weaknesses so you can make a more refined purchase the next time. Than rinse and repeat. After awhile you will refine your tastes down to the point where you can spot what will probably work and what won't with little effort without having to handle the knife.
 
Dano1987 said:
I can't quit buying knives. I've bought about 10 spydercos in the last 2 months. Today I bought a buck fixed blade on impulse. And now I have a civilian and a ss delica coming. I gotta stop spending!
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I'm guessing all of us here are at least a little nuts. :D
 
Don't worry you"ll run out of $ and be stuck in knife limbo like me at somepoint. :D Like they say in moderation. You gotta take a break at some point or you"ll find yourself doing unnatural/criminal things for $ to feed your knife habit.:D At some point you just gotta say NO! I don't need them. Take a break and then go back to them. Like all addictive things that will control your life. Don't have to give them up forever but gotta break the cycle for awhile or they"ll get the best of you. But then again it's easy for me to say since i have no more money. That will cure an addiction pretty fast sometimes.
 
Ulf Krogstad said:
At some point you just gotta say NO! I don't need them.
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Do you do that? Or do any regular bladeforum user/member do that? Were a site full of knife addicts and we all enable each other, it doesn't work out like that.

So far it is usually is one of the following from what I can tell that makes us slow down.

1) I ran out of cash.
2) My significant other is MAD at me for spending too much on knives, I have to slow down or figure out how to get new ones without her knowing. And divorce means even less cash for knives :grumpy:.
3) Learned from experience so now I force myself to use the knife for awhile before buying another to refine my tastes and/or save cash.
4) I'm saving money for my next purchase.

On a side note if you want to slow down the knife buying spree I found picking up sharpening as a hobby to help slow it down. You can get pretty far on some basic stuff like a norton combo stone and a thing of compound and experiment with using it on paper or making your own strops. Plus if your going to have a lot of knives mine as well make sure that their the sharpest things you will ever handle in your life. Head over to the maintenace sub-forum and they try to convert you into a knife sharpening guru if you let them.
 
I'm guessing your new to the hobby and and excited about all the cool blades to try. I did the same thing when I got started and felt the same way. I would buy a new knife the same day I got one in the mail it was that bad. I learned to be a bit more slective but it took a while to learn it. If your not going broke then go ahead and buy, but I would suggest that you enjoy the ones you have, and there is more to the hobby than just buying. enjoy the hobby you fellow knife nut.
 
kwick72 said:
I'm guessing your new to the hobby and and excited about all the cool blades to try. I did the same thing when I got started and felt the same way. I would buy a new knife the same day I got one in the mail it was that bad. I learned to be a bit more slective but it took a while to learn it. If your not going broke then go ahead and buy, but I would suggest that you enjoy the ones you have, and there is more to the hobby than just buying. enjoy the hobby you fellow knife nut.
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I'm not really new... I had upwards of 30 spydercos before then 0 for over ten years. I never actually really bought them till recently.
 
Have fun with them but keep them in a marketable state; should you find the need to unload for economic reasons. and yes it's addicting. one good thing is that the newest electronic gadget costs even more and will depreciate or turn obsolete in a year. good knives keep their value better.
 
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