Craziest way you've ever financed a knife?

I have found a lot of old buttons and marbles at yard sales and sold them on EBay. One card of really old buttons I paid 10 dollars for brought 80, an old German made marble I paid a dollar for brought 157, another swirl marble I paid a dime for fetched 67.
I wasn't selling them just to buy knives, but the money went into adding to my Spyderco collection none the less!
 
once sold ten playboys to a guy at my school at $50 each, bought a bunch of knives, lighters, and magic tricks
 
yablanowitz said:
Nothing, ever. If I don't have enough disposable income to cover it, I don't buy it. A little lesson I learned the hard way, and the reason I have zero debt.
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Another +1.

I've also come to believe that if you can't afford to pay cash for it you can't afford it. Financing is for the impatient, the unwise and the terminally optimistic. ("In the near future I'll be making much more than I am now..." yeah, right)
 
Geez

I dont know if this counts. But everytime "She who must be obeyed" cracks up about a knife purchase, I just tell her that I have a whole lot of culls from the collection that I am about to put on Fleabay to pay for it.

So far I haven't had to sell one!


Chuckle, Chuckle, Chuckle :D:D:D
 
I don't think some of you understood the original intent of my post. I'm not looking for comments on financial acumen or the evils of indebtedness. I, too, pay out of pocket...but how to get that money "in pocket" in the first place? I'm looking for weird things that you've done to get the money. "I go to work" is about what most of you are saying. That's fine, but the guy who got his money from marbles was more what I was looking for.
 
I don't know about anywhere else in the world but here in Canada you get 10 cents for every beer bottle when you bring your empties back to the beer store. I like Case and Spydie and Benchmade... do the math :rolleyes::D

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I only had to drink about 300 of those to buy that Sodbuster.
 
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Chewy1 said:
I don't think some of you understood the original intent of my post. I'm not looking for comments on financial acumen or the evils of indebtedness. I, too, pay out of pocket...but how to get that money "in pocket" in the first place? I'm looking for weird things that you've done to get the money. "I go to work" is about what most of you are saying. That's fine, but the guy who got his money from marbles was more what I was looking for.
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A "guy" named Jill is even worse than the boy named Sue!
(believe me if I was a guy with the name Jill I'd change it!:D)
 
I made couple computers from old scrap parts, made them work, put Ubuntu and sold them. That's how I financed my Tenacious. I bought my Kershaw Needs work with money I got from selling Mtech MT304 linerlock and leatherman Kick.. Nothing really weird...
 
yobbos1 said:
I only had to drink about 300 of those to buy that Sodbuster.
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Truly, a labor of love. :D
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I worked a couple extra shifts to buy a Kabar/Becker BK77(s30v and micarta) and a BK11 when Toooj came to town, and picked up the GB hunters axe at a local chainsaw and woodstove dealer(My cousin works there, so he got it for me for for about 33% off.:D). Would have included the pic, but the upload failed twice. :confused:

Jill, I always thought you had lost your marbles, but it turns out you just sold them. ;)
 
Craziest thing I've ever sold off for a purchase was probably a telescope lens/viewfinder that I found at work. I waited almost a year for someone to come around asking for it, but they never showed up. I had absolutely no use for it, so I ended up selling it on the Bay for almost $200, that was a great knife buying day for me
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How would you have felt losing such an expensive item? You could of course have done the most moral action : ask around if someone of your colleagues lost it...
 
I sold some surplus enriched uranium once. Guy said he was using it for a science project. ;)
 
Read again. Sounds like he did, but no one came to claim it.
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Indeed, but the way I read it was that he didn't ask if someone lost it either. Which is what I would have done.
But indeed, it's all hypothesis and not my business.
 
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