Bought My Wife a Knife

FrannaM said:
You might be wise to slip in a nice piece of jewelray....just in case. That will insure a more favorable reaction...
a non-knife person by buying them a knife so they will realize what they are missing?
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I've gifted well over a hundred knives...everything from SAKs to $220 folders. Mostly to deployed military or to law enforcement personnel...never had a bad reaction... I usually get the idea from reading one of our posters...
 
I have given my wife a few knives over rhe years to carry. She typically puts them in a purse and forgets about them.

I've given her a few gag gifts....once I gave her a cooler..... (in addition to a card, chocolates and dinner). The cooler got a long belly laugh from her. It was a Valentines gift.

Usually we do an overnight to a getaway for aniversarys. We are coming up on 21 this year.



I will say, however, this year's Bday gift was a subcompact 9mm, with purple holster and matching spare mag carrier, several boxes of ammo for practice and carry, and a bright, rechargeable flashlight....

She actually asked for the gun, and a cute holster (because the gun was a boring black Hellcat).


Not every gift needs to be jewelry.

I enjoy putting together outfits for her snd surprising her with them ( I have always paid attention to fashion...I will look at her clothing magazines and pick out what I think whe will like, and then she will show me the outfits she loves....over the years, I've learned enough that she will often mention an outfit, or shoes at a clothing store, and I can pick out exactly which pair of shoes, or outfit it was she mentioned without any description).

It is a little thing....but I enjoy going to the clothing store and assembling a whole outfit from top to bottom including shoes and jewelry to match.
 
Wurger190 said:
I think it's not very nuanced - buying a gift that what his wife is interested in, wrapping it in a box that alludes to jewellery - it may not have the endearing effect he is after.
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Was just pointing out that the size of the box may represent a similar size jewelry comes in. To cancel the elusion I will put the knife in a bigger box. Sorted.
 
FrannaM said:
Was just pointing out that the size of the box may represent a similar size jewelry comes in. To cancel the elusion I will put the small box in a bigger box. Sorted.
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Cool, saw your expanded anniversary gift and plans above, sounds good and better than I could provide for an anniversary! I think people are genuinely just concrened that you don't pin your hopes on her response being an ecstatic one. Hope it all goes well man.
 
FrannaM said:
Bought My Wife a Spyderco Squeak Pink with a personal engraving on the blade as an anniversary gift. I'm very excited to see her reaction especially because the package is the type of size you would expect jewelry to come in.
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Oh yeah, this should be good. I don’t see any problems at all. :rolleyes:
 
My wife appreciates my knives, enjoys meeting and getting to know various custom and production makers, but as far as carrying or using...not so much.

She won't even use the good Murray Carter kitchen knives. She prefers her Victorinox, Boker and Tramontina knives that she doesn't have to worry over...knowing I'll keep 'em sharp for her and it doesn't matter if they get dinged up.

Everyone's different.
 
My ex for sure would have said "oh thank you honey" and then buried the knife in my back while I was sleeping.
 
is this a bold move that could backfire? Yep. But, I'll give the benefit of the doubt to the OP for knowing his wife.

I gave my wife a purple SAK Classic. She carries it in her purse, not on her keychain. She probably uses the scissors more then the blade but she does use the knife. I always suggest a colorful SAK Classic for gifts, especially for *non knife* people. Cheap and easy to carry but extremely useful.

Good luck Franna and happy anniversary.
 
When my wife and I were first dating she actually went out and bought a knife for HERSELF based on what she learned from my pockets. Picked out benchmade bone-collector, axis-locked, D2, "spydy" holed, g-10 number. Realized I had a quick study on my hands. Definitely opened my eyes to the idea that we could get along and agree on some stuff.
 
Rd0wavz said:
When my wife and I were first dating she actually went out and bought a knife for HERSELF based on what she learned from my pockets. Picked out benchmade bone-collector, axis-locked, D2, "spydy" holed, g-10 number. Realized I had a quick study on my hands. Definitely opened my eyes to the idea that we could get along and agree on some stuff.
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This reminded me of when my ex-wife and I were dating, I got her a pink Kershaw Shuffle, which she actually loved. It was an early model, with 8cr before they switched to 3cr. She came from a family of boozehounds (well, her father and step-mother and friends) so it made her very popular at family get togethers. It was perfect because the blade wasn't long enough to be immediately dangerous to me. When I saw her perfectly bifurcate a large tree spider with my BK-5, I worried about giving her something any larger than that shuffle.
 
I got my wife a pink Victorinox classic, she love the tweezers and scissors the most. I keep her kitchen knives sharp. She doesn’t use my Murray Carter knife tho, too sharp for her
 
Wurger190 said:
I think it's not very nuanced - buying a gift that what his wife is interested in, wrapping it in a box that alludes to jewellery - it may not have the endearing effect he is after.
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I told you I don't catch on that quick - I thought the reference was to the thread no ending well, as opposed to the gift giving - and I understand that!

I hope it goes well for the OP - but at least it's not a bowling ball with "homer" engraved on it...

best

mqqn
 
FrannaM said:
Bought My Wife a Spyderco Squeak Pink with a personal engraving on the blade as an anniversary gift. She has never shown interests in knives, but she has no choice but to like the knife ;). I'm very excited to see her reaction especially because the package is the type of size you would expect jewelry to come in.

This got me wondering if any of you knife nuts has reached the point of just helping out a non-knife person by buying them a knife so they will realize what they are missing? Or are my expectations too high?

I just don't understand how anyone can not have a liking in knives :D. The same as when you tell people how many knives you own and what they cost, they look at you like you are a crazy person.
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You might want to bring along a plan B gift in case this doesn't go well.
You can whip it out and say, I was just kidding, here's your real gift.
 
FrannaM said:
Bought My Wife a Spyderco Squeak Pink with a personal engraving on the blade as an anniversary gift. She has never shown interests in knives, but she has no choice but to like the knife ;). I'm very excited to see her reaction especially because the package is the type of size you would expect jewelry to come in.

This got me wondering if any of you knife nuts has reached the point of just helping out a non-knife person by buying them a knife so they will realize what they are missing? Or are my expectations too high?

I just don't understand how anyone can not have a liking in knives :D. The same as when you tell people how many knives you own and what they cost, they look at you like you are a crazy person.
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Put it in one o’ these. I triple dog dare ya.

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I gave my wife a small purple spyderco years ago. I am pretty sure it is one of her purses.

I would swap out the box. Another option would be give her jewelry in the box or perfume that is hard to open. When she ask for your knife to open it give her hers to open it.
 
My wife not really in the knife hobby, but she have small collection of knives, mainly small Spyderco folders, Rats 1 and 2, red rubber SAK Nomad. On the keychain she carry SAK rambler with ebony scales that was customised for her by one of our local knife community members. She chose almost all the knives herself, with the exception of a few that were presented by me and our friends from local knife forum. Here is one of her favorites - Spyderco Kopa
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I bought my girlfriend an SAK classic, a small flashlight, and one of the "tactical" fingernail cutters and put them on a keychain. The thought I put into it was very well received by her, her friends and family. She calls it her "Batgirl utility keychain".

However.

It sits in her purse and she rarely remembers to use it. I call for it to use more than she thinks about it. It was a wonderful gift, "just because", but I don't think it would have been well received as an anniversary gift.
 
Y'all seem to be such a thoughtful group. My father is worthless when it comes to birthday's, anniversaries, holidays, etc. Didn't even say happy birthday to me, didn't get me a present. The only thing I opened on my actual birthday this year was something I bought myself.

When he does give gifts, it's something he likes that in the event you don't like it, he hopes he can have it.

I always feel bad for my mom, so when I was 20 I started giving her anniversary gifts in his stead. I guess when you grow up with an asshole of a father you think more about these things.

I kicked my wife out before our first anniversary. Doubt I would given her a knife though, except maybe in her back.

I never forget birthdays holidays, etc. Hell I'm the Easter Bernie! Every easter I bring sandals for the nephews, and this year for my niece.

Every woman is different, but I'm not sure she would appreciate a knife in a jewelry box, unless it also had some earrings or something.
 
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