Cured the Addiction

Wish I could go a week with out buying a knife ~~ and it would be nice to up & sell 90% of the Knives that I have ~~ but that will never happen either ( believe me I have really - really thought about it but I just can't make myself do it ) ~~ maybe I should just give them all away to somebody else & get them into Collecting & then for them to try swearing off buying.!** Ya reckon.?*
I could save a lot of money if I just quit buying Knives & going out to eat where the tab is $30 or $40 ( including the tip.* )
about 3 or 4 nights a week.!
Enough said.!********** Got to go get some supper.^^
 
jill jackson said:
I have more knives and guns than I could ever use in 10 lifetimes. Who cares they seem to never go down in value. In fact they for the most part keep going up. I wish everything else I spend big bucks on did the same!
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We are all very fortunate to have the interwebs to buy and sell as we want. I know my collection would be no where near it is without it.
 
Thanks fellas!

I will be looking into making myself at some point I just haven't the foggiest idea where to start haha but that's a discussion for another subforum when the time is right.
 
I haven't bought a knife in a while either.

My coworkers are sort of knife hobbyists as well, I just purchased a small fixed for a coworker.

I have been itching to get another kitchen knife though...
 
It's tough in the colder months to find other sidetracking interests......so I have been focusing more on drinking and working overtime :D. But once the weather gets warmer and I get away from my computers, detox really starts for me (for buying knives at least).
 
Thanks for the support everyone! It's great to get advice from people who have conquered habits or learned to consume in moderation. I'll probably get a knife to celebrate my engineering degree, so I'll try to keep myself to one or two knives per year.
 
First post here....this is my "new" hobby. Always liked blades but never got into them like recently. I was on and still have a passion for a seriously expensive hobby. That hobby is watches. At first I thought 300$ was nuts to spend on a watch, in a short amount of time 3k was a bargain for what I desired.

Took a few years to finally realize that I can't afford multiple thousand $ watches. Now I have been purchasing knives. Started with some budget kershaw and then I found spyderco. I have a para2, endura 4, and Delica 4. I look at knives and research them but I don't have the insanity that I have for watches. Knives are my "cheap" indulgence as for now....
 
davek14 said:
I myself replaced an addiction with knives, making them, or at least putting handles on blades, many, many moons ago. Some of us have to have our obsessions and knives are relatively harmless.

The great thing about knives is that it is a many faceted hobby and it doesn't have to be expensive. You could get into sharpening like a ninja, wood carving, knife rescue, etc., etc.

I've gotten pretty good at being cheap about this myself. Looking for old users at flea markets, yard sales, pawn shops and fixing them up a bit feeds that acquisition monkey pretty cheaply. You can get an Opinel for 8$-15$ and sand and stain and play with that thing for a month and then give it away when you get it just right (or mess it up real good).

Congratulations Mr. Dabble. The first year or two is hardest. If you totally stay on track it gets better and easier slowly, but it never stops getting better and easier. Your knife hobby is one set of new neural pathways and you'll find more. After a pretty good while you'll be able to be around triggers without issues, go to a bar and just listen to the band for instance. After a long time you won't see how you could ever go back. Don't rush it.
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What you say is definitely the truth. I got into the whole sharpening thing so I could avoid supersteels and focus more on what I wanted as I slowly started gravitating towards them and more high wear resistant steels in general. Right now that doesn't really matter to me as much anymore. I have 2 knives in S110V and I am thinking about selling them, the next most wear resistant steel I own is probably Aus8 or 8cr13mov.

I will also admit that sharpening can get expensive if you let it. Though right now my favorite setup is 2 cheap norton economy stones (silicon carbide, and india) and a tube of cheap green compound and I strop on a piece of paper and it all cost me less than $20. I can get a knife to push cut newspaper with this setup and do everything I need a knife to do. It's quite entertaining how much is reliant on skill for free hand sharpening rather than equipment.
 
You will never be free. Embrace who you are. Aaaand maybe take an accounting class before you graduate.

But seriously now. I've only recently gotten into the hard stuff, but it's not so bad. Just be honest with yourself about it and exercise a little control. An engineering degree should afford you a nice knife every once in a while. I sure hope so, that's what I'm going back for right now. Psychology didn't buy me shit!
 
evanPGH said:
After that my goal is to not buy a knife for one full calendar year.
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Man, what do you guys do for fun? This is cheaper than guns, booze, fast cars and women. Yeah, I know...women are worth it.
I like to learn about steels, primarily. I like it here. I am slowing down quite a bit, however.
It's ridiculous to post here that you've stopped buying knives. I realize that watching your wallet is smart. But, this isn't a forum on dieting or a sub-forum of the WCTU.
If you're happy, that's great.
 
I thought I cured my addiction but then I started looking at this site again and now I'm checking the exchange about ten times a day.
 
Sonnydaze said:
Man, what do you guys do for fun? This is cheaper than guns, booze, fast cars and women. Yeah, I know...women are worth it.
I like to learn about steels, primarily. I like it here. I am slowing down quite a bit, however.
It's ridiculous to post here that you've stopped buying knives. I realize that watching your wallet is smart. But, this isn't a forum on dieting or a sub-forum of the WCTU.
If you're happy, that's great.
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Its more of a personal lifestyle goal than anything.

There's a lot more to knives than buying them. I want to hone my freehand skills as I'm good but not great at it. I also want to research the history behind the blades that interest me.

I haven't bought a knife in months and it's nice being able to use and enjoy what you have instead of immediately trying to nail down your next purchase.
 
I feel like I have a good handle on this hobby, I currently have 7 knives. I usually buy 3 or 4 a year, one for father's day, one for my birthday, one for Christmas. and sometimes I will clean out my garage and ebay some things I no longer use, along with a few knives I have that I have lost interest in to make a new purchase. I don't feel as bad trading junk I no longer want in for knife fund money.

I look at it as a pretty cheap hobby. When I used to play golf every week I spent much more $ on that. I have a friend that has a mountain bike problem. When he told said I was crazy for buying a $400.00 Sebenza I told him my hobby is cheap compared to his. He has 5 mountain bikes that cost between 1500 and 2,000+ dollars.

Some people collect guns, I can get a really nice knife for the price of a cheap gun.

It can definitely get out of control for some people, just like drugs or gambling, but if you keep it in perspective and consider your financial situation, you can look at it as a good-value hobby. Heck, consider what a smoker spends on cigarettes in a year. I don't buy drugs or tobacco and a case of beer last me several weeks to a month. I feel pretty good about where I stand with knife collecting.

For all you guys out there that are struggling, I whish you luck getting it under control. Its like everything else in life, you have to exercise willpower and self-control.
 
Sonnydaze said:
I seem to function within my limits of self-control. I sell in order to buy. Not a bad deal.
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I generally try and keep the $ invested pretty static. Just sold my CRK to try a Strider, sold some EP stuff to put a paper wheel setup together. Keeps the physical volume of crap I have to keep track of/move to a minimum while facilitating a continued exploration of the offerings out there in search of the unicorn that is the PERFECT BLADE!!

In the end, what matters is that I don't get too immersed in having a relationship with stuff; I want to have quality tools that allow me to live life in fullest connection, and when Lord of the Rings "my precious" style attitudes start surfacing, I know I need to check myself and re-prioritize my human relationships over my physical ones.
 
jimmyd1982 said:
I thought I cured my addiction but then I started looking at this site again and now I'm checking the exchange about ten times a day.
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Only ten times a day? I thought you were going to say ten times every hour or less. :D
 
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