Disaster Scenario

I'm in the common predicament of most of my favorite knives being hard to replace. With that in mind, of the knives I have, the priorities for replacement would probably be a BSA scout knife, Spartan SHF, and Spartan Difensa. This is assuming that I have plenty o' money after this disaster.

Sadly, most of the rest of my favorites are discontinued and hard to find.
 
For $200-$300..my Protech TR-5 hands down..been great so far.
I have a few fixed blades too. We are in earthquake country out here big time so it's just a matter of time and if I have to dig them out of the rubble or not..or ever find them after :(
 
jc57 said:
I have little to no actual need for a pocket knife. I lived for decades without carrying one. They were a hobby for me during a period when I had a little extra discretionary spending money and time to devote to a hobby. In a post disaster scenario such as you describe, I would likely have neither. I am too old to fully recover financially from such a loss and would have a greatly reduced lifestyle. I would probably eschew all things not utterly necessary. Much of the "stuff" I have accumulated over the years is unnecessary anyway, so a clean start with the minimum would be how I would approach it.
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This is how it would go for me, I think. Looking closely at my life, most of the stuff I have got rid of the past few years has been unnecessary. I've been on an un-burdening streak and if I were hit by a disaster, I'd consider it an omen to not accumulate again. I'd just go back to how I lived before I discovered knife magazines, and then the online knife forums. A SAK in the pocket, some kind of clean low milage used car, and a single firearm in the closet. Most of us accumulate stuff we have no real need of because of the internet and forums.

Looking back on the 1990's and early 2000's, I regret wasting as much money as I did on knives and unneeded firearms. Being a retired senior citizen since 2002, I could have used all that money in my stocks accounts.
 
jackknife said:
Looking closely at my life, most of the stuff I have got rid of the past few years has been unnecessary. I've been on an un-burdening streak and if I were hit by a disaster, I'd consider it an omen to not accumulate again. I'd just go back to how I lived before I discovered knife magazines, and then the online knife forums. A SAK in the pocket, some kind of clean low milage used car, and a single firearm in the closet. Most of us accumulate stuff we have no real need of because of the internet and forums.
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Yeah. In part, I probably couldn't afford to seriously accumulate "stuff" again. I have a lifetime's worth of stuff around me. Hell, I still have my original college notes saved in a box from the 70's. Tell me how useful that is, Eh? Always thought I would go back and review them again, but in general it has not happened. It would be much more practical to simply take a new college course or two within my central focus just for the nostalgia of it and stretch my mind a bit.
 
There really isn't a real scenario where I wouldn't have at least 1 knife on me when a disaster hit, so what I would replace would depend on what I still had.
If aliens decided to specifically target and abduct my knives while leaving the rest of the world's knives in place I would go with the cheap essentials to start off. A vic rambler or rally, byrd cara cara 2, and a mora. Shortly after that I would start paccumulating traditionals again.
 
If during a Natural disaster my knife collection does not survive, then I did it all wrong.

Right now my knives are in a Safe or emergency grab bag which is very easily accessible. That being said, the Busse knives, ZT knives, Becker knives, etc that I have, if they don't survive the disaster, I will never buy them again. I fully expect them to survive it and then some and be there 100% ready to be used.

Human made disaster such as thief (see above lock safe), an Ex (I'll stab him first before he touches them long enough to take them and he knows it), etc wont happen. ;)
 
jackknife said:
This is how it would go for me, I think. Looking closely at my life, most of the stuff I have got rid of the past few years has been unnecessary. I've been on an un-burdening streak and if I were hit by a disaster, I'd consider it an omen to not accumulate again. I'd just go back to how I lived before I discovered knife magazines, and then the online knife forums. A SAK in the pocket, some kind of clean low milage used car, and a single firearm in the closet. Most of us accumulate stuff we have no real need of because of the internet and forums.

Looking back on the 1990's and early 2000's, I regret wasting as much money as I did on knives and unneeded firearms. Being a retired senior citizen since 2002, I could have used all that money in my stocks accounts.
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22-rimfire said:
Yeah. In part, I probably couldn't afford to seriously accumulate "stuff" again. I have a lifetime's worth of stuff around me. Hell, I still have my original college notes saved in a box from the 70's. Tell me how useful that is, Eh? Always thought I would go back and review them again, but in general it has not happened. It would be much more practical to simply take a new college course or two within my central focus just for the nostalgia of it and stretch my mind a bit.
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I would recommend the documentary Minimalism to you both. It's been a game-changer for me personally.
 
GatorMedic said:
I would recommend the documentary Minimalism to you both. It's been a game-changer for me personally.
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I read their book. Definitely helped me. Still trying to fully apply such thinking to my knife collection. It's a process for sure.
 
halden.doerge said:
I read their book. Definitely helped me. Still trying to fully apply such thinking to my knife collection. It's a process for sure.
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I read Everything That Remains after I saw the documentary, but it didn't impact me as much as the doc. Maybe because the order I did them in? I made a few changes right away after that (January of this year). Then I began listening to their podcast a few months back after a friend mentioned it, and that's what spurned me on to continuous action. Listened to it while I went through all of my possessions, room by room. Proud to say I've sold, donated, or gotten rid of well over 50% of my stuff in the last 3 months. I'm still finding spots here and there to trim down further. It's an ongoing process but I'm loving the change :)
 
GatorMedic said:
I read Everything That Remains after I saw the documentary, but it didn't impact me as much as the doc. Maybe because the order I did them in? I made a few changes right away after that (January of this year). Then I began listening to their podcast a few months back after a friend mentioned it, and that's what spurned me on to continuous action. Listened to it while I went through all of my possessions, room by room. Proud to say I've sold, donated, or gotten rid of well over 50% of my stuff in the last 3 months. I'm still finding spots here and there to trim down further. It's an ongoing process but I'm loving the change :)
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That's awesome. I'm definitely learned the hard way how easy it is to cut way back and then seemingly overnight, reacquire so much of what one has gotten rid of.

The one I read was Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life, I think it was their first. I also really liked Joshua Becker's The More of Less.
 
GatorMedic said:
If some type of disaster affected you (hurricane, fire, tornado, sink hole, theft, pissed off ex, what have you) and you lost all of your possessions, what knives would you purchase again immediately? Or if your answer is none of your current knives would be purchased again immediately, which knives would you buy to begin the fresh start? For the sake of this scenario "immediately" means within a month or maybe two.
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SAK tinker, Bravo 1 LT, then PM2, zt 562
 
halden.doerge said:
That's awesome. I'm definitely learned the hard way how easy it is to cut way back and then seemingly overnight, reacquire so much of what one has gotten rid of.

The one I read was Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life, I think it was their first. I also really liked Joshua Becker's The More of Less.
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I've seen/listened to a few interviews with Joshua Becker but haven't read any of his books. I'll add that one to my TBR list :)
 
GatorMedic said:
I've seen/listened to a few interviews with Joshua Becker but haven't read any of his books. I'll add that one to my TBR list :)
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It's a fast read, in a good way. Saw your rotation in that other thread. Getting down to just 4 is pretty impressive. I've been working to get back to 10 but am still in the high teens, lol. One step at a time.
 
GatorMedic said:
I would recommend the documentary Minimalism to you both. It's been a game-changer for me personally.
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If that's the one I think, we saw it on Netflix some months ago. We'd already been heading down that road for a some years. It's been a slow process to get there. As far as knives, I'm down to just a half dozen, and even that's too many, but the knives I have left are sentimental favorites. Guns down to a just a few, same for the rest of the stuff.

One thing we noticed, it's very easy to find what we're looking for in the house now that there's not that much stuff. Liberating as all hell and feels great!!! I think we just had to get older and realize that all that stuff was just not needed.
 
The disaster assessment folks in Oregon reckon that when the big earthquake hits, people living on the inland slope of the Pacific coastal mountains should expect to be almost totally isolated for upwards of a year, and with virtually zero government services or presence.
 
Mecha said:
The disaster assessment folks in Oregon reckon that when the big earthquake hits, people living on the inland slope of the Pacific coastal mountains should expect to be almost totally isolated for upwards of a year, and with virtually zero government services or presence.
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That is a frightful thought.
 
Mecha said:
The disaster assessment folks in Oregon reckon that when the big earthquake hits, people living on the inland slope of the Pacific coastal mountains should expect to be almost totally isolated for upwards of a year, and with virtually zero government services or presence.
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Yeah, I'm pretty glad I live well east of the I5 corridor.
 
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