Does the sensation ever leave????

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jlamb

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I am relatively new to accumulating/collecting, does the endless want of knives ever leave after your bitten. Looking to you guys and girls that have been around for a while. You know what I am talking about, you get a new knife and instead of being satisfied, you are just out looking for another one. It really is a sickness!
 
It's an addiction for sure. But on a positive note, you are only going to need just one more knife. :D

Tom
 
The knife companies keep those new models coming and we just have to have them.
Do you really need them? Or, just want them?:D
 
It'll only stop when you run out of storage space or run out of models to buy. I'm pretty satisfied now and I'm already almost out of storage space.

Just another one and I'll be fine :)
 
Knife addiction is kind of like hunger. When you get a lot of knives in a short time, you slow down and am satisfied. Over time, the drive to get new knives grows and eventually becomes so great that you find yourself ordering more.
 
I've been buying knives for 35+ years and will not buy another knife for at least 3 more hours.For me,the yearning to buy more knives never diminishes.The wife wants me to go seek therapy(LOL),but,I don't listen.
 
jlamb said:
I am relatively new to accumulating/collecting, does the endless want of knives ever leave after your bitten. Looking to you guys and girls that have been around for a while. You know what I am talking about, you get a new knife and instead of being satisfied, you are just out looking for another one. It really is a sickness!
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yes, sometimes.

When I got close to age 50, I started to look around me at all the stuff in my life, and wonder what I was doing. As I got close to 60, something happened. I just wanted to get rid of most of it, so I did. I had a giant downsize of my life, and so did the better half. I sold off all my high end customs, my Randall collection, most of my firearms. The kids and grandkids got first pick, all else went. I only kept a handful of my favorite pocket knives, two sheath knives, two handguns and two rifles. The almost 100 piece knife collection is no more.

When I had finally done it, I felt a great sense of relief. Liberation. My whole knife collection fits in a cigar box. My new rule is; a new one comes in, an old one has to go out. Trade it off or giveaway. At my age I just give it away to somebody who needs a knife.

I still have an interest in knives, that will probably never go fully away. But I moderate it to keep from getting out of hand like it did before. I won't buy a new knife anymore, and I look and ask myself "what will this new one do that my old one won't?"

You've got to seperate your wants and needs.
 
The bug for knives may come and go; the bug for the people you have met because of knives is forever. :D
 
I'm near 60 and have been collecting/accumulating for most of my life. As someone else stated, " the urge to buy calms down once in a while, but never really goes away." My ex-wife complained, whined and made each purchase a pain, I divorced her after 21 years.
 
Cotherion said:
It'll only stop when you run out of storage space...
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That's the problem with knives... they're small. If you collect, for example, airplanes as a local man does (he owns the Spruce Goose... the real one). He just keeps building and building to house his growing collection.

I have a friend who is an obcessive collector of pinball machines. He's not as wealthy as the aforementioned airplane collector and so he is currently in a bind. He's out of space and in a one-in-one-out mode right now while he tries to figure out some way to get more space. He's already rented a large storage unit and it's full too. Fortunately, for him, the only argument with the wife is about which ones go to storage, not the ones she likes; she's as much a part of the problem as he is (yes, there have been cases where they unknowingly bid against eachother at auctions).

Cars? Again, unless you're very wealthy, you quickly run out of space.

Knives? Well they're small. You can fit a couple of thousand knives in the space of one pinball machine.

I doubt that the largest knife collection in the world is even a fraction of the volume of one Spruce Goose.

My younger brother collects pens; they're more-or-less the same volume has knives. My older brother, coins and stamps which puts him in much worse trouble than either of us.

So, try to find some other object to transfer your interest to, something which is large and cheap.
 
Well occasionally guilt may have the upper hand but for the most part...I need more knives!
 
My wants are generally a little more refined now and have found myself gravitating to simple is better lately. As in Mora's,Opinels, old well made slipjoints and fixed blades.Old American made axes and hatchets that I rescue and re-furbish.I started seriously collecting about 25 yrs ago and I still have several rolls of knives but I find myself using them as gifts when I need them as opposed to adding to them.. Just my $.02 worth--KV
 
I blame BFC.

After I buy a knife I am content and satisfied, then soemone comes along and posts something like this and I start getting an anxious feeling in my stomach.

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5.56 said:
I blame BFC.

After I buy a knife I am content and satisfied, then soemone comes along and posts something like this and I start getting an anxious feeling in my stomach.

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Your posting of that picture just gave me that feeling.
I guess I'm headed back to the knife store today.
 
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