Collection Getting Too Large?

JK Knives

JK Knives

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Anyone else feel this way? I`m 52 years old, and have way too many knives. On Thanksgiving day I`m having a drawing with my two son in laws. I`ve numbered about 50 knives on the back, and letting them draw numbers to see who gets what. If they want to trade afterwards, that`s up to them. Anybody else do anything like this before? My one single daughter collects Benchmades, so all of those have already gone to her, and I have given my one grandson a bunch of SAK`s. These are just some duplicates of others I have. Should be fun!

John
 
I wonder if someone's fishin for a knife-knut for
a future son-in-law.............?

Naaaaaw...that's way too sly!
 
I'm the marrying kind!!!!

what other knives you givin' away, paw?

:eek: :D
 
You sound like a generous man, sir. . . Can I offer to "liberate" (wink,nudge,nudge) some of your burden?
 
I give knives away a lot. I have decided that I want my collection to go in a certain direction, and have either sold or traded off the ones that do not meet my criteria. Every time my Mom comes to visit me, I seem to give her another knife. Which is funny, because SHE is the one who started my knife addiction.....um, collection. I think that that is a GREAT way to dwindle down ones collection.
 
Both of my son in laws and my one daughter are already knife nuts. But with young families they can`t spend much on non essentials.

John
 
You too, Stomper?

I went through the same thing when I got to my50th. Is it an age thing? I decided I had to much stuff of all kinds, knives, guns, other toys. Ended getting rid of a heck of alot of stuff and went back to basics. I felt liberated by it.

Good luck.
 
jacknife - I figure that at my age if I have not used it yet, I probably won`t. Most of what I have given away, or am going to, are duplicates of what I have accumulated over the years. If I have not worn them out yet, I doubt that I ever will!

John
 
Isn't it ironic, that as we get older and responsibilities change, we many times have more discretionary money to spend on the things we always wanted when we were younger, but possibly couldn't afford. Now that we "got" it, we may be passed the stage of being able to fully utilize it.

Possibly, this is the Grand Direction in life, making us make do when younger.

I have 3 sons, none of which have my interest in knives so I tend to give away a lot of mine to the people who work for me....the same people that got me interested in the first place.

Anyway.....I think that we'll all have Great Family Thanksgivings.
 
AAAA! offtopic
but I thought that the internet is the stuff for young people... :)
so many old and wise men here.. I'm proud of you.
 
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