Do you keep your knife boxes?

I keep boxes from lots of stuff. You never know when you will need a box. I use them for their scrap. I never know when my kids will want/need to build something out of cardboard for school or just for fun.
 
I keep them mainly to make storage easier and more organized. When I buy/trade second hand I like having the box but it's no biggie if it's missing.
 
OldeWolf said:
So only you get to determine what kind of board experience a member has based on registering date? If somebody does not agree to your thought processing, they're "new"?

You might be a long time member here but I've already gone out of my way to exploring vastly this place and you will be surprised on what I know and how I see things if you spend some time doing so. Plenty of room to acquire such new experience, old forum timer. It's amusing to me watching people worry about nothing. There are better more pretty things to worry about. ;)
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Hang on here, let's see if I've got this straight. You just went out of your way to throw a personal insult at a long-standing, well-respected member here, right?

Insult me instead. It'll make everybody's life a lot easier.
 
Lets please talk about the topic.... not each other, before some start collecting something other than knives or boxes.
 
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! And the loser has to give all his knives away to everyone in this thread!

Anyway, I figure it's all a matter of storage space and time available to pursue your hobby.

I typically keep the box for a knife only long enough to see if I want to keep it, or give it away or sell it. I try to trade for, or buy, only users. That way I can really enjoy a knife for what it was made for. If someone wants to collect, and save the packaging, that's cool too. As for me, I limit myself to one banker's box, and that's where all my knife boxes, brochures, packaging, etc. go to. Once it's full, I purge. Same with my knife magazines and catalogs. One shelf, and that's all. Once it's full, I purge, and usually about half goes into recycling.

I do know from experience how freeing a good purge of belongings can be. :thumbup:

~Chris
 
CWL said:
You are new to the BF community, and I suggest that you take some time to read more [AND POST LESS]. Lots of differing people, interests and opinions, and plenty of room for all of them.
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Sage advice CWL.

And yes, I keep my knife boxes, papers, etc. in my bottom dresser drawer, much to my wife's displeasure.
 
I always save the boxes that the knives come in and alot of times the shipping boxes too. It is because I buy/sell/trade quite often....yeah, I do have a problem! I am a Spydercoholic...:D
 
I keep boxes to knives that come with things like wrenches, extra clips, special documents, etc. because it's easier for me to find the box than all the damn little bits and pieces. Otherwise I don't save 'em unless it's a piece for the collection (which is rarely the case--the overwhelming majority are users.) And again, when I save a box to a collection piece it's mostly so it's easier for me to find amidst all my other stuff.
 
How big, I wonder, is the average Bladeforums member's collection? I have 10 knives; empty box storage isn't a difficult problem.
 
Strange how the empty knife boxes kept in a big box actually take up less space than where you keep your knives altogether ( if you do).
 
Cynic2701 said:
How big, I wonder, is the average Bladeforums member's collection? I have 10 knives; empty box storage isn't a difficult problem.
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I have tons of machetes. Keeping the boxes in that situation would make me a little fort in no time. :D
 
I keep all the boxes for storing a knife or something that needs to be stored say a sharpener or unbranded slipjoint.

Some paper boxes can be flattened and stored for later use.

The cardboard ones have foam padding and I store a knife not in active use.

Even the plastic wrappers and bubble wrap are reused to store knives or something else.

All these boxes with the clean oiled knives are stored in a plastic box.

I don't buy knives I don't intend to use or can't afford. :o
 
Cynic2701 said:
How big, I wonder, is the average Bladeforums member's collection? I have 10 knives; empty box storage isn't a difficult problem.
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I have around 10. A small collection shouldn't be a problem but I suppose it might be one for those with hundreds or thousands of knives.
 
I keep all my knives in their box for protective purposes, until the box "dies". I feel they are safer that way. That's why I try not to buy high end knives in a clam pack, unless I have to.
 
fire hazard. the only desireable collectible packages are sealed boxes/cans/bottles of generic material. packaging for high-value items such as knives have no value.
 
OldeWolf said:
It's not what we have but what we do with what we have that defines our daily days. We only live once so I'm not going to baby sit "collectable" things until I die nor should anyone. We can preserve it while in use or hold a few as an example of a past when the future gazes upon said items but this current frenzy over sharp objects that just sits there and be denied it's tool-designed function (aka not be used as intended) before being passed on to the next collector is a sign of a materialistic mentality that is of no practical use. Example is the over-quoted post by RevDevil that reflects from the materialistic aspects of history not the human aspects of history.
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This seems to sum up your discontent with the topic.

"We only live once so I'm not going to baby sit "collectable" things until I die nor should anyone."

Don't be so judgmental. If someone enjoys collecting something, who are you to say that collecting something has no value or that someone shouldn't do it? It has value to them. Just as you seem to only value things with practical use (which, by the way, is just as arbitrary as valuing anything else), some people can appreciate knives on a higher level. Knives are simply NOT designed or created solely for utilitarian purposes. It's simply not how life works. Knives are designed with utility, aesthetics, comfort, and collectability in mind. Someone who uses knives with no regard for anything but utility misses out, in my opinion, on more than a person who can appreciate a knife as something more than a sharp edge.

"...is a sign of a materialistic mentality that is of no practical use."

Yes, and of course no one is allowed to do anything in life that isn't of practical use. What a sad mentality.

"Bah, knowing what I know, which is little in the vast of what we have lost of history, it just makes me sad seeing this kind of hoarding behaviors when hopefully one day folks will realize that they cannot take them to their graves with no guarantee the next generations will give any damn about what you have collected."

Maybe some people who collect knives don't collect knives with the intent of taking anything with them or preserving anything for posterity. Maybe they just do it for themselves, because they enjoy it. There's nothing wrong with that. You tell people to stop worrying about insignificant things like boxes for knives, I think you should maybe stop worrying about what other people do with their lives. Your utilitarian values have merit, as do the values of a collector. Denying either is simply being close minded.

As for boxes, I keep them for knives that I plan on selling sometime down the road. Most of the time I just throw them away.
 
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