LOL I appreciate all the input! It's really hard to resist, especially when I find a bargain. I do have a wife and kids, and I'm careful about the spending, but the yearning for yet another knife
man, that's tougher than I thought it would be!
If you really want to stop, first you have t not come on any internet knife site, including tis one. The knife forums feed the fever. It's like keeping up with the JOnes's when there's no real reason to keep up.
Second, if you already have som knives, then you have "enough". When you see a knife, just ask yourself what will it do that one of your knives that you already own won't do? Usually the answer is 'nothing.'
I went through all that collecting before I did my great downsize. I sold off my Randall's another customs, gave the production stuff to family and friends, and never went back. Now I have a mantra, "if a new comes in, an old has to go."
The other thing, once I got married and had kids, it got a lot easier. New shoes, school stuff, soccer team, new car now nd then, family trips, all took care of disposable income. If you have disposable income now, then start putting money aside for the kids car they will need, as well as a college fund.
There's way more to life than knives, and it took a long time for me to find that out. Then I finally reached a point that I can look at the knives on a forum, and appreciate the knife, but I can turn away by asking what will it do that my knife won't. I've went from carrying knives like a Randall or a custom folder, to having an Opinel or SAK in a pocket and a mora on the belt and being happy.
It's like taking a drink, but not drinking to the point that you get drunk and are useless to your family.
