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Gave up smoking 7 years ago, quitting my knife addiction tommorrow ;)

NetshadeX said:
Anyone else ever thought of quitting their collecting or have you ever quit and returned? Feel free to share.
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I'm pulling way back on my knife collecting at the beginning of January. I had decided to do this earlier in 2013, but then we had a small financial windfall, and I decided to indulge in some of the knives I'd been wanting to try out. Done, sold/traded a bunch of them. Now I've got about fifty knives, multitools, and related gadgets that I use & play with the most in a nice little wooden cigar box, and that's about it. I've got a few more to sell, and I'll be done.

I've had hundreds of knives over the years, and I've been able to figure out the styles & features I like. I'll always love the hobby, but school is taking priority right now. I'm 46, going to school full-time on a VA grant. I'm planning to go back to work at the end of this summer, so the whole "cruising the forum posting and buying & trading" thing is going to be on hold indefinitely.

~Chris
 
I wouldnt say Im a collector, but I do not sell knives.
I only buy them If I can see practicality.
They all get used.
 
I've been collecting for about two years or so and I have an entire Spyderpac full of knives both cheaper knives and fairly expensive ones. I have one more slot in my spyderpac and that's being saved for a Spyderco Military. After it's completely filled I'm gonna stop collecting until I find something new to store my knives in I think my dad and I are gonna make something nice out of wood. After I have a nice new place for storage I'll more than likely start collecting yet again.
 
I wouldn't say I'm addicted but I'm highly invested in my pocket knife collection. I have had to and will again take long breaks due to financial issues, also I realize I should be spending more money going on fancy dates with my girlfriend like the aquarium or other fun places. It took a couple fights for me to get that one through my thick skull.

As of now I'm looking to buy one last knife, indefinitely, but I won't be able to make that happen if my car keeps breaking down..
 
I started to back off a few years ago when I realized my collection was turning into variations on a theme rather
than exploring new steels and designs. I especially love traditionals but just can't bring myself to drop the cash
on yet another peanut, congress or copperlock.
Same thing for CRK; spending 500 bucks on one more Sebbie seems redundant and wasteful. Once in a while something
truly unusual comes along (Graham Bros Razels come to mind) but for the most part it takes something pretty special
these days for me to slap leather.
 
I'm always adding something. Just ordered a Dozier fixed blade. But I buy blades to use rather than look at. I don't really collect, but some might think that if you saw my accumulation.

All that said, I have been tapering off and choosing new stuff to use rather than just because it grabs my interest.
 
My collection of folders pretty much ended at my Caly 3.5, however one day I will still own an SnG. Fixed blades is a different story I can always seem to find a "good reason" I need a new one.
 
Quitting smoking is a good thing. It just occurred to me that you are getting past the "I quit smoking phase and damn proud of it". Substituting the knife urge for the nicotine urge is a good thing and you probably break about even cost wise. We forget so quickly.... wives are good at forgetting what you gave up for the common good and only think about the new urges.
 
I quit when my first daughter was born years ago. I own one EDC that I have purchased and it will stay that way for a few years. I love my ZT 0561 and it is all I need along with a vast supply of information and pictures.
 
I don't "collect" so much as I "trade." I often have to sell one or two in order to buy something different. I see absolutely NO reason to quit. Makes no sense to me at all.
It's my hobby...why would I want to quit?
...and I don't know what that has to do with smoking... I gave up smoking MANY yrs ago, as it was harmful to my health. My knife hobby is GOOD for my health...gives me purpose and pleasure and interests and further learning directions.
 
It's good I like blades but as tool not collection. So i just got the best knife for me that will always be with me in my pocket all the time.
 
The more I buy knives, the less I seem to enjoy them - or say - I don't have time to enjoy them. Also, the tighter the pace of acquiring knives is, more obsessive it becomes. And I don't like the obsessive nature. I currently have only few knives, all of them with very specific use and meaning. I'm no way stopping my knife hobby, but when you acquire new knife every half year you certainly aim to make good purchases and appreciate your new knife more. Again, when I eventually will have too many knives laying around the corners I will give them away or sell some of them half-free (as they will get used and lose resale value).
 
NetshadeX said:
...I'm putting a stop on my collecting as of tommorrow. No particular reason..... Feel free to share.
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the human mind requires stimulus to function.
and with proper re-education,
a wasted mind can return with the proper zeal.
continue stay focus with a game plan.
any lack of direction now will only lead to idle stagnation.
loss of self esteem and eventual shut down.
any lost of passion now,
can and will lead to a string of failed affairs.
all as a result of having omitted personal commitment
towards a hollow relationship with your past time...
 
GIRLYmann said:
the human mind requires stimulus to function.
and with proper re-education,
a wasted mind can return with the proper zeal.
continue stay focus with a game plan.
any lack of direction now will only lead to idle stagnation.
loss of self esteem and eventual shut down.
any lost of passion now,
can and will lead to a string of failed affairs.
all as a result of having omitted personal commitment
towards a hollow relationship with your past time...
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The ZEN of knife collecting ?
 
This is truly a great topic, i see the word addiction popping up quite a lot and after reading your story's i tend to think that some of us simply have what are called addictive personalities.
I am that way for as far as i know. It's a pain in the but. Last months i've spend way too much cash on knives and gear, and i want to stop but it's hard. I've told myself i'd stop several times. Still i would end up with another purchase or 2. Expensive knives that i'd never thought i'd buy. And in most cases 2 of them. One to use and one to keep safe. I find great deals and have to do it.

I should start saving and look at the future but i really don't want to. I don't even look forward to the future. It's gonna be kids, house, wife, responsibilities.
I think my whole knifebuying bender is a cryout to be wild, irresponsible and dangerous. No ties, no commitments. Just me, me me. It's a hunter energy that i can't seem to release elsewhere in the world. I've been thinking that i might need some help from a church or something. I'm focussed on things and on me. That can't be right.
 
My thing is the bang for the buck. I've owned so many handmade knives it ain't even funny. When I sell something it is usually to get something else. I never seem to get what I paid initially for a knife. I only use a couple in my collection so getting the most just doesn't seem to me what it used to me. For instance out of curiosity I picked up a COAST FX350. I look at this knife and how it is made with half way decent steel and I say to myself why should I collect the higher end stuff as I have been doing when you can get something of this quality for 26 bucks. It looks good, it cuts extremely well, it is cheap so no biggie in using it and if I break/loose it I can readily get another.

Now I will be able to retire before I can collect S.S. in Feb of next year if I want. I mean officially out of the work force. I work p.t. and what we make in interest is more that what I make working part time. So that being said I can see a sharp curtailment coming in my purchasing power until I hit 62. So that is a motivating factor in my decision to curtail my buying in Feb. But until then I may pick up some along the way. I also see the above mentioned COAST folder as a motivating factor too. I mean it is a very very decently made knife with decent materials and does exactly what a folder should do and does it very well. So I ask myself what is the point. Right? Manufacturing process's for steel, CNC machining etc.etc. have all been improved so greatly over the last few years the quality you can get now is just unreal. So there ya go. keepem sharp
 
Sonnydaze said:
I don't "collect" so much as I "trade." I often have to sell one or two in order to buy something different. I see absolutely NO reason to quit. Makes no sense to me at all.
It's my hobby...why would I want to quit?
...and I don't know what that has to do with smoking... I gave up smoking MANY yrs ago, as it was harmful to my health. My knife hobby is GOOD for my health...gives me purpose and pleasure and interests and further learning directions.
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I'm close to this but I don't trade. I have given away several knives though, with two or three of those times to women. What I am finding is that I like to be the Great and powerful Wizard of Oz. Make knife use pronouncements like they were written in stone. Only to find out later that I was way off and still had more to learn. So.... basically I am still learning the finer nuances about some knives, steel, and their specialization of use. The knives that I bought several years ago may or may not be my preferred choices today. So I buy at times because my knowledge base changes or my use parameters become more refined....... When I look in Mors Kochanski's book '' Bush Craft'', I realize that I am still travelling the road to knowledge. This changes my view on some knives and they may be culled. I primarily buy for wood processing, but some of them are just hobby toys and I view them as such. Sometimes it's just about fun and I have great fun farting around with say, a Cold Steel hawk. There is a method to my madness but it's not that rigid. So I still buy now and then, but feel that a saturation point is being reached.
 
ATTN: ALL ABOVE, I am sent as you advisor, mentor, and FRIEND to end your suffering. You like so many lost souls will never really be free, until you release,all blades that bind you. Getting to the point , I must ask you to serrate yourself from those who have cut into your soul for such a fixed time. Cutting to the chase, it is time to fold up your little "custom shop" you call your collection and respond with open arms of all kinds and rebuke those who only seek to steel you damass. Send all your traders, your slip locks, your flippers and those who have switched sides so many times, TODAY without fail to : RB BLACK, saver of the lost, 8003 Prestwick Lane, Stanley NC , 28164. You can not stand alone, only my loving and protecting sheath, has a chance. Oh !, Many doubters they will be, for those poor souls we offer a less sticky program. For the first time, and we can not say how long this will last, nor can we gauge the thickness or hardness of your situation, you can send one D2demon blade weekly , for at least 19.99 weeks, or until you are deemed saved*. Hurry folks, I am currently very busy, teaching Phil Robertson that loving God and Family is a bad thing and will soon be working with Daisy Air Rifles, awarding them on the "Ellen" show for naming their company after such a wonderful and delicate smelling flower, the baby Daisy.
* ( weekly saving is subject to lockback at any time. No saving will occur unless entire collection, yes the butterflies, the nail clippers, the cigar cutters, the bottle openers, the lanyards, the beads, those associated with knives, the pouches, the carry all, the rolling leather, the rolling p leather, Blade Mags, Knife Mags, and all Case-xx, **** forget the case-xx,even i can't save anyone who has 100 of the same looking knife, and all sticks within 25 yards of the home, pizza and butter knives are excluded, unless they are unwashed, hell, I can't do all this saving and weigh 265 without food. seller, all ebayers,buyers, and all site monitors, are subjuest to a limited 88.13% saving, no one saved on weekly plan less that 19.99 weeks. ) ****** ( unless otherwise noted ) *********( thanks and happy shipping, ok to leave at front door, TANTO, assistant to the Lone Ranger. Who is currently working under the cover of Benchmade, until they run him into the ground, Poor Ranger he was a hell of a friend, R.I.P.
Cheyeene,( That was his horses name? ) .................................................
 
not in my story, ( all actors or agents are subject to change at the direction of the "saver".)

there, it's official. thanks for reminding me of the different story.
 
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