Do you carry out an annual inventory check?

golok

golok

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Every now and then, I take a peek at what's already in my drawers. Those that have knives seem to be crowding out the other stuff like socks, ties and other items.

Lately, I have been telling myself perhaps I ought to carry out an inventory check on my knife collection on an annual basis.

This would certainly give me a rough idea of how much I am spending on knives and how many I have added to my collection over the past 12 months.

It seemed like only yesterday when I had only 5 knives. Now there seems to be at one or two in every other drawer. Holy Moses! I tell myself at times, this has got to stop, before it becomes an addiction.

Then I catch a glimpse of the latest "everybody-wants-it" model on the Bladeforums. Suddenly, it pops into my head: Next project! :D :D
 
I don't, but I DO keep a "Dann's Knives Log" (on "MS Word") that I update everytime that I buy/sell/trade a knife.:).
 
It can spoil yer hobby fer sure. Just last week, on the advise of my insurance man, I brushed up on my MS Access and inventoried my toys. Amongst the other wretched excess were no less than 114 knives. I would have guessed at about half that number if anyone had asked me. Makes it real hard to justify buying more for a bit.

GronK
 
I just did one and realized how many knives I actually had accumulated. That is why I have a few for sale.:)
 
I use a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, that contains make, model, place of purchase, date of purchase, price, current condition (mint--lousy) and a comment column. A field at the button then automatically calculates the total sum spent on knives. You'd be surprised how much money one spends. Not until you've structured it like this do you get a complete overview of your spendings.
 
I use the same method as Thomas here...
I also have the most up to date prices for my slipjoints vs. what I paid and also where, when and who I got the knife from.

As of this post my total is an even 200 :D

To me this is just part of making knives an even more enjoyable hobby.
 
I did when I was going through getting renter's insurance and they asked if I had anything of value like jewelry, coins, stamps, or collectibles. So I told them I had a knife collection and now I try to keep track of what I have and its replacement value if it's stolen or destroyed in a fire.

Frankly, what I found sort of scared me and it was a bit of a wake-up call, yet somehow I keep ending up with more sharp stuff!
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I realized some time ago that eventually I'd end up in the same place -- lots of knives all over the place, as well as no way to keep their histories straight. I ended up putting together a quickie database in MS Access, and things have been much more sane ever since. Once the info. is in the database you can obviously calculate the average/total cost of the knives, count them, find out how many folders vs. fixed blades you have, etc. very easily. As has already been noted, it also helps tremendously for insurance purposes. Here is the Design view of the database (left column) and a sample record (right column) in case anyone wants ideas on designing their own. I'd also be willing to send anyone the Access file structure so they don't have to start from scratch, just email me.

Database.jpg


Note: The last field is a scanned image of each knife.

- Mark
 
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