How Old Are You?

What's your age group?

  • 80+

    Votes: 9 3.8%

  • 70-79

    Votes: 34 14.5%

  • 60-69

    Votes: 62 26.4%

  • 50-59

    Votes: 57 24.3%

  • 40-49

    Votes: 34 14.5%

  • 30-39

    Votes: 35 14.9%

  • 20-29

    Votes: 3 1.3%

  • Under 20

    Votes: 1 0.4%
  • Total voters
    235
el gigantor said:
As I get older and worry about the future and regret the past, I try to keep the following quote in mind: "There's only one instant, and it's right now. And it's eternity."

I'm 45.
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No regrets my.friend......No sense worrying. If you cant change.it.........Its like the wind,and sailing,. all you can do is adjust your sails as it changes.....👌. Think about yesterday, you think about 10 years ago, 15,20.yrs ago....
The minutes and days may be long but the years are short.........😉
 
When I started this thread, I figured that folks on the Porch would probably be a little older than the "general population" (both mean and median ages for U.S. population was 39 years in 2024).
But I didn't expect that a quite steady 70% of respondents would be at least 50 years old.
Maybe it's not that surprising if you know knife sales history. I was unaware of the pocket knife world from about 1970 to 2014, and sometime in that period modern knives must have passed traditional knives in popularity (eventually by a huge margin, right?). For example, if modern knives had the majority of the market by 1990, maybe anyone who is under 35 today would have never had a chance to experience traditional knives and would have no interest in the traditional subforum at BF.

Here's a thread I just found (not sure how I missed it before) that's relevant to the idea of when moderns became more popular than traditionals:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/when-did-regular-old-pocket-knives-become-“traditional”.1784107/

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
When I started this thread, I figured that folks on the Porch would probably be a little older than the "general population" (both mean and median ages for U.S. population was 39 years in 2024).
But I didn't expect that a quite steady 70% of respondents would be at least 50 years old.
Maybe it's not that surprising if you know knife sales history. I was unaware of the pocket knife world from about 1970 to 2014, and sometime in that period modern knives must have passed traditional knives in popularity (eventually by a huge margin, right?). For example, if modern knives had the majority of the market by 1990, maybe anyone who is under 35 today would have never had a chance to experience traditional knives and would have no interest in the traditional subforum at BF.

Here's a thread I just found (not sure how I missed it before) that's relevant to the idea of when moderns became more popular than traditionals:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/when-did-regular-old-pocket-knives-become-“traditional”.1784107/

- GT
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I got a lot of mail order knife catalogs in the 90s, and modern one hand openers didn't really start to take off until the mid 90s. Before then, traditionals dominated the catalogs. By 2000-2005 modern one handers dominated.
 
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