How to resist buying knives

TotalDbag

TotalDbag

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I took a vacation to Sevieville Tennessee. And I'm within walking distance from smokey mountain knife works. And since I have to go to it I need to know how to resist the knives influence, so I don't go home a poor man.
 
Make a list of all the other things that you need to spend $$ on, like rent, tires for the car, clothes for the kids, heat for winter, etc.

I'd give myself a reasonable knife budget and stay within it. You went all the way there, after all. That itch needs to be scratched.
 
Give your wife your plastic and instruct her not to let you use it without her blessings!

Omar
:rolleyes:
 
Unless you have a thing for cheap imported junk, you shouldn't have much trouble resisting 90% of their inventory. Just stay away from the Randall section, that could be dangerous to your bank account.

The museum upstairs is definitely worth the visit, though :thumbup:
 
james terrio said:
Unless you have a thing for cheap imported junk, you shouldn't have much trouble resisting 90% of their inventory. Just stay away from the Randall section, that could be dangerous to your bank account.

The museum upstairs is definitely worth the visit, though :thumbup:
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That's some great advise there!:D:thumbup:
 
drag racing and road course racing helps me to resist many potential knife purchases by keeping my funds low. that might be the answer you're lookkng for though, lol.
 
Go out and buy all you afford and then some. That might put an end to it.
 
TotalDbag said:
I took a vacation to Sevieville Tennessee. And I'm within walking distance from smokey mountain knife works. And since I have to go to it I need to know how to resist the knives influence, so I don't go home a poor man.
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My advice, don't go in there. That's the first place I go sadly when I take a trip to Sevierville and the general area and I normally walk out with at least one knife. I end up going there at least one holiday vacation out of the year.
 
Just pick up an Opinel #6 for $5.99 or a #8 for $6.99 and realize that your cutting needs have been met so from then on your just looking. :)

Good Luck with that!

Wish I was there.
 
They don't have a whole lot of good stuff, so I agree it shouldn't be way too hard.
But, the way I've resisted buying knives way too much is I have refined my likes, wants, and needs.
If it only has some things I like, I don't get it. If I don't think I'll use it, I don't get it.
I have several factors I look at before I buy a knife. =]
Makes life easier.
 
Stay off of BF? I try not to impulse buy any more, if I do it's something under $30. However, I get bit about once a year now and this time the bug is called Boker Haddock. Yup, it'll be here this week, hehe!
 
Turn away from all knife photos like they were Satan himself.
Then realize that Bluefield WV is only 200 miles away from SMKW. RUN , RUN like the dickens from that Appalachian den of iniquity where those vexing vixens of carbon and bone call to the weary but unwary traveler, pockets stuffed with their slippery wads of cash begging to be turned loose only to leave a drooling husk of a man .
A quote from C.S. Lewis, “He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart”
Oh though I try to warn my friends, the never listen and end up here. Stuck within BLADEFORUMS!
 
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