Extreme downsizing

I downsized my collection about a years or so back. I traded/sold many of my knives, but regreted itnot too long after. In all honesty, I would have been fine with the knives I kept, but I would get on bladeforums and see all the talk about knives I sold or liked and then it started the WANTING not needing again.


I find that after a few months my taste change and I like a different knife. I guess I am still in my imature stage where my mind wants things I really don't need.

Every time I see a threat like this, it make me think of the knives just sitting in the dark and it makes me want to downsize. I am like a fish, I just flip from one side to the other when I am out of my element.


John
 
kidwholaughs said:
Less clutter give clearer minds and redirects focus to whats really important. That way people can work on their lives instead of work in their lives. I do it too from time to time.

God Bless
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Kid, that's the best way I've heard it said.:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Can I get your permission to use that as a quote in the future? I really like that!
 
When I have thought about Downsizing, this song comes to mind. :D

Worst 15 Minutes of my Life - Rodney Atkins:D

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The way I look at it anything here when I'm gone goes to the Wife and Kids.
I have few NIB in the collection and heavy on EDC users.

And living a rural lifestyle, you need things/tools being more independent in the outback.

If Downsizing means living in the Suburbs or a Townhouse, I'll pass for now, thank you. :) :D
 
I am going through the same thing right now. The few times I won in a giveaway here I have given another of my knives knife to a friend. I have a case peanut, stockman, saddlehorn, and a Queen canoe, and three rough riders. I have two Spydies. Six months ago I had a whole lot of knives and have since sold or given them away. I know exactley what you are going through.
 
I can understand what a lot of you are talking about. I generally care little about material possessions, save the basic essentials, and the things involved with my hobbies. I generally hate shopping, and being "stuck" somewhere by your job and possessions. I, too, would much rather work less and have more free time than work more and own more. This is true, of course, except when it comes to certain things, as previously stated. That being said, I still don't go too crazy with it--at least I haven't yet, as finances haven't really allowed. I don't always want more though. I usually have a rough mental list of things I would one day like to try, keeping what I like and getting rid of what I don't. There is something special about having limited possessions. In a society where everything is disposable, owning anything for more than a few months makes it feel like a close friend. It's hard to build a relationship like that with something when you throw it out after a couple weeks, or own 50 different variations of it. Something you maintain, like a knife you sharpen or a lighter you refill when it runs out of fluid, is much easier to truly appreciate, as it kind of becomes a part of you.
 
Thinking a little I think my limit for downsizing would be three slipjoints. I like to have variation, most often I like to carry two on me and I dont like the idee that loosing it would leave me without a funktional knife. I have never lost a folder or got one broken but I still afraid of it and three knifes in my posession kind of garantee me from the danger of being without a pocket knife. I aso need two fixedblades and a butchersknife + a smaller sized lockback but everything else is aktually owning more posessions than I need.

Bosse
 
Mr.Bojangles said:
In a society where everything is disposable, owning anything for more than a few months makes it feel like a close friend. It's hard to build a relationship like that with something when you throw it out after a couple weeks, or own 50 different variations of it. Something you maintain, like a knife you sharpen or a lighter you refill when it runs out of fluid, is much easier to truly appreciate, as it kind of becomes a part of you.
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I think that's a big part of it for me. Lot's of truth there Mr. Bojangles.

I know that back when I had 15 different stockmen, or a dozen different sodbusters, or triplicates of tools, none of them were that special after a while. The more I got, the less it meant.

Now I seem to value each and every item more because there's just the one. Okay, maybe two. I don't have to pick which fishing rig I'm going to take, or what tackle box, there's just the one small one. I use, clean, and maintain a very small amount of stuff now, and a by product is, I know where everything is on a seconds notice. I no longer have two gun safes filled to the brim, just a couple of rifles and handguns. Makes going to the range easier. I find life is easier with less stuff.

Besides, if Karen and I want to pack up and move on a whim, we don't want to have a bunch of stuff in a moving van. We want to trim down where everything we own will fit in an Airstream or houseboat in one load.
 
jackknife said:
Kid, that's the best way I've heard it said.:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Can I get your permission to use that as a quote in the future? I really like that!
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Be my guest Jk, use and you please.

Although, the work on your life and not in your life is from Mark Driscoll.

God Bless
 
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