Craziest way you've ever financed a knife?

Today, I just traded a T/C Hawken black powder rifle for a NIB emerson cqc 15 with the lethal edge skull lanyard. Guy wanted the rifle bad.
 
Dagon said:
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...
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Dagon, I completely agree with you. But you have to understand that I don't work in a large office with hundreds of people, we're talking about 10 employees at most, and I know each and every one of them very well.

I asked everyone at work about it and told them that if someone came around mentioning they may have lost something, then to direct that person to me. I even posted on my local Craigslist that I found this item, but I didn't get any response.

I think I waited long enough, and I'm definitely not losing sleep over it. If you would have done more, that's good on you, but I think I was pretty reasonable about the whole situation.
 
Thanks Ludwig, this shows once again I should have known the whole story before replying.
 
I was living with my girlfriend at the time, I really wanted a new folder. Problem was, I didn't have any extra cash. I woke up early one morning (couldn't sleep) and was looking at some knives online and decided I needed a NEW knife. So I did what any guy would do when he knows his lady has too much cash for her own good. I grabbed her ATM card as she slept like a baby, and went to the corner and took out a 100. She should have never told me her pin! An that's how you finance a new spyderco my friends....
(granted I felt like a low life, but who doesnt want a new blade) It's funny because I forgot about it untill I looked at this thread, prob. because I wanted to block it out of my memory ! haha
 
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Not much interesting in terms of buying knives for me, but I once sold a 48kw diesel generator to pay for a new milling machine and lathe. Its been like 2 years and I'm still using the cash for knife-making purposes.
 
I save my change; same rule goes for my son.

When I come home from errands, my policy is that all my change goes in a quart Mason jar. I have about $60.-$80. within two-three months. I budget $20. weekly, each, for my wife & I for allowance, so between those two sources I usually can buy some pretty nice cutters & still have funds left over for Starbucks. ;) (I need to sell some of my knives, though. Way too many sitting around right now.)

Jill, you're in a good location for that stuff - the flea markets back there are the best. :thumbup:

thx - cpr
 
I buy knives to see if I like them and if not or if I want something more, I sell those to finance the next ones. I have sold stuff that I didn't care about, but mainly knives. I don't see anything wrong with selling off stuff you wouldn't want anyway so you can save some dough.
 
I don't know how this qualifies or if I'm the only one that has done it, but I once bought a nice spyderco ??native?? From walmart, used it for about a week, took it back, got a leek, turned back around a week later, tried out that buck fixed blade (not tje 119) they had, turned around and did the same thing, then went to a brick and mortar and just bought a 110. Haha.
 
I sold a used mountain bike to the shop drunk who is constantly having his liscense revoked. Didn't give him a break at all on the price sensing he was desperate for a ride to work. Serves him right for driving drunk all the time. Anyway those funds went to some knife or another.
 
Promised my wife if she let me buy "this one knife I have to have" It would be the last one for a "long" time!

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I sold twenty birdhouses for ten bucks a piece. Used the money to buy my Custom Buck 110, still waiting for that one.
 
That would be living the dream!! lol, in my younger days i collected aluminum cans and then recycled them for cash. you would be suprised how much money you could make this way. it was enough for a nice spyderco or two.
 
audiboy711 said:
That would be living the dream!! lol, in my younger days i collected aluminum cans and then recycled them for cash. you would be suprised how much money you could make this way. it was enough for a nice spyderco or two.
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We have a friend here who let's his son do that, instead of getting an allowance. The kid makes 3x more than the regular allowance his sister got. He never lets her forget it, either.

Now, if we could just get the kid interested in knives . . . :p

thx - cpr
 
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