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buy a mora or an opinel. That way, when you destroy it cutting cardboard, you won't be out much money. 

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Get a Cold Steel mini tuff, about $30 and will be a great box cutter that will be useable for other knife duties after the move. Take the other $125 bucks and buy some adult beverages and some aspirin. Should take care of the day.
Blessings,
Omar
Agreed 100%. I tried (really I did) not to use my tuff for anything but carving wood, but I just couldn't help it. I truly believe that all knife nuts should grab one. They are amazingly thin behind the edge (way thinner than anything else I have) and just excel at things like cutting cardboard. The steel is only aus8, but it's such a good and thin cutter that it doesn't matter. Really. I used mine extensively at work the last three 13 hour shifts and it's still razor sharp.
The only thing I'd change about Omar's recommendation is to get the bigger one instead of the mini. Unless it's thicker behind the edge (I doubt it, and btw it's a very deep hollow grind) then I'd go with that. The mini is a fantastic knife, especially for the $24 (shipped) that I payed for it, but at just over 1" the blade is a tad short for hard work. Otoh that's about the same length as a boxcutter blade so it would depend on your preferences.
Even if you choose a different knife I'd still pick one of these up.![]()
The regular Tuff Lite is similarly paper thin behind the edge. The secondary bevel from the factory (on mine at least) was also only around 25* included. Nice slicer.
Soon I expect to be helping a couple of friends move. This will involve lots of box cutting. While I could use any number of my current knives, that's certainly less fun than buying a new knife. I could also just get a box cutter, but waste a perfectly good opportunity to buy a new knife.
Yep, I think a ffg delica in ZDP-189 would work the best