Do You Catalog Your Buck Collection? If So, How?

I use a spreadsheet, I don't have them seperated by brand and almost all are BUCK, and list them chronologically. Except for one particular model which I have it on top and those are in chronological order. At the bottom of the list seperated by a few lines I have the one's I have given away or gotten rid of. So that I remember who I gave what and also so that if I am looking for one I had and can't find it, it will remind me.
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I’m not trying to be snarky, but why is a spread sheet necessary?

When I am working on a set, I take a picture on my phone so I can quickly see what is missing.

To document what I paid? Does it even matter? I pay as little as possible, and would sell for whatever I can get.

To document the construction details? I can pick up any knife and tell you everything you need to know about it.

My sister was a record keeper, she documented everything she did. She enjoyed it. It was a hobby in and of itself. So I completely understand that side of it. But it seems like work to me.

Some people like to keep a score card updated while they watch a ball game. I just want to watch a ball game
 
eveled said:
I’m not trying to be snarky, but why is a spread sheet necessary?

When I am working on a set, I take a picture on my phone so I can quickly see what is missing.

To document what I paid? Does it even matter? I pay as little as possible, and would sell for whatever I can get.

To document the construction details? I can pick up any knife and tell you everything you need to know about it.

My sister was a record keeper, she documented everything she did. She enjoyed it. It was part of the hobby to her. So I completely understand that side of it. But it seems like work to me.

Some people like to keep a score card updated while they watch a ball game. I just want to watch a ball game
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My spreadsheet is helpful to me personally on some occasions but I could get by without it too.

I do it mostly so my wife won’t be completely lost if and when she wants to sell or gift my knives if I go first. If she sells them, all of the necessary information for a sales description is at her disposal. She will only need to take current photos which will take quite a burden off of her.
 
Spreadsheet is just an easy way of keeping track. At a quick glance I can tell roughly how many, not particularly important.
The details are just so you have an idea of it without searching for it I guess.
Keeping track of it adds to it but not to the point of it being work, can't say I do it to the point of it being a hobby in itself, but I have seen other similar situations where it was.
Personally, I'd way rather keep track of the collection than watch a ball game. lol
 
I'm starting to think I need to formalize tracking. I exceeded the selling threshold with eBay that requires filing taxes and tracking gains and losses for each item last year, and most of what I sold was just personal collection Buck knives.
 
eveled said:
I’m not trying to be snarky, but why is a spread sheet necessary?
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I don't consider it necessary, just helpful. For another brand with lots of variety in models and steels, I wanted to try the differences to figure out what I liked. A spreadsheet makes it easy to check if I've ever tried something or not. Even though I have slightly less Bucks than that other brand and more are duplicates of a model, most are buried in some sheath and often in the little bag within the sheath. That makes it more time consuming to check what specific variation I have while the spreadsheet makes it much easier.
 
I figured you guys would have good reasons or you wouldn’t do it.

I rely on pictures on my phone of my collection if I want to check something quick. Like which variant I have. So not a spreadsheet but still a record of sorts.
 
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