Knife spending budget??

aggiejason

aggiejason

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Hey everyone! Well, I was off the forum for a while and I've been active again since about Dec. 1st of last year. There's sooooo much good stuff out there that I find myself going crazy! I mean, not spending so much that I can't pay bills and have to sleep in the street crazy, but I find myself having to control my impulse to buy on first sight.

How do you guys cope with "love" at first sight? Do you have a budget for knife spending? Any tips would be greatly appreciated! :D
 
I compulsively research knives that I want to purchase . . and then I lie down and hope the urge to buy goes away.

I also tell myself that I will only buy knives at knife shows . . except in very rare circumstances. That seems to work, as I only go to 2 knife shows a year . . . and by putting off a purchase by several months I tend to change my mind about knivest that I would have bought on impulse.
 
Hold your checkbook about shoulder high, drop it on the ground, if it doesn't bounce when it hits the ground it means the check has gotta be good and you can buy your knife...:D
 
I save pocket change to finance knives. At the end of the day I empty my pockets of change - average $0.80 per day. About twice a year I make a purchase with these funds. This way it does not hurt so much.
 
It's a combination of prioritizing, discipline, maturaity, and restraint.
You'll get there.
 
Yes, knife buying seems to be addictive esp. if you're into the different opening/closing technologies and the knife looks good in the catalog/on the Internet. I confine my purchases to $25 to $35 ea. so don't wind up with the classy custom-style knives so many bladeforums writers love, but they do the job nevertheless and the great thing is if you lose one of 'em you don't go nuts!
 
I spend play money on stuff I am interested in, which is divided between camera gear, video games (Wii at the moment), knives, and guns.
Recently all of it has gone to sharp and shiny, but it does get divided up.
I'm going to stroke some of my BRKT's now :D
David
 
I used to do as coop does, and save pocket change for knife purchases. Then I'd make an exception and purchase a knife here or there. Eventually, I abandoned the saving change concept and just planned purchases when I had something in mind I wanted to buy.

A few years ago I got into buying lesser expensive knives to use in the field. I tell you: If you have a problem compulsively buying regular production knives at $50-$100, DO NOT GET STARTED ON MORAS!

My best advice (like I'm in any position to give advice on this subject!) is to plan your purchases, buy one or two knives you want, and use them for a while in the field before getting something else. If you're a knife collector and not a user, then... Well... I don't know, maybe impose a 4-month purchase plan or something.
 
Well, I said in a different thread the following:

If your trying to save money or spend more time with your wife, quit this forum!!!

I tried to warn you all!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHA

I just bought a grip and an Atwood bug out.... If I buy another one soon, my wife is going to break my neck. My fear of my wife is the only thing stopping me from buying more.

So, in a nutshell, that is how I deal with the urge - FEAR!
 
I use play money as well.And I also gave up(for now)my other hobbies which include Rare Coins and Bullion,Custom Guns and Hi-Fi(high end audio).This gives me xtra $$ to spend. And, recently I have become interested in customs which require little or no money down.The time frame for most of what I have ordered so far is 6 months to 3 years.This not only spreads the money going out but also gives me a new knife to look forward to every 4-6 weeks.

MPE
 
If I can afford the knife, think its worth the price, and want it, I buy it. Admittedly, I buy a lot more knives than when my dearly departed wife was around. Sometimes my daugters will ask, "Dad, is that a new knife?". I tell them no that it as from my collection. Such interrogations must be genetic.
I burn the shipping boxes out back before they get home from school. They don"t need all that electronic junk they want anyway. You can never have too many knives, guns, or too much ammo.
 
The only real limit I have is growing up in a cotton mill family, which left me very financially conservative. Although I can now buy pretty much whatever knives or guns I want, my background is with me for life.

However, I have one of the finest women God ever put on this earth standing at my elbow telling me that I have worked hard, that I can afford it and I need to buy it now while I can or I will regret it later. when she goes to Blade with me I inevitably spend twice as much as I had planned to due to her encouragement. (Unfortunately, she will be having foot surgery around Blade time this year.) No, I don't really know what I did to deserve her.
 
My "play" money has to get split up between several hobbies. When I see a new knife that I want, because it takes a bit of time for them to get up here, it gives me some "breathing" room to think that purchase thru a bit. It's also more expensive up here so the justification also has to be there. On the other side of it, sometimes my "direction" changes too and there is "stuff" available:) Like a slippie I just got - Queen Dark Cherry Canoe/D2 and a Camillus stockman a couple of weeks before that. I have to get the Queens online, but dang, this is a whole new world in slippies:eek: I also wanted a SAK Farmer for my toolbox, so it came with the the Queen. I have to be a bit more careful from here on in - I'm having to save to get ready to go 'Vegas for an 8-ball tournament in May and am planning to buy my plane ticket right away, so I'm being a little more conservative - perhaps only one a month. I'm planning to get there a day or two early to "snoop" by myself before the team gets there, so I want to make sure I have a bit of cash for Bonds House of Cutlery:D

- gord
 
Now that I'm "free and clear" I have more to put into my knife hobby, and I do. I generally try to decide on a couple of custom folders and then make arrangements to have them completed during a specific time frame and I have the money ready by that time. For example, I ordered a large Raider from Pat Crawford during the last week of December for delivery around the first week of March. Has given me time to put back the needed funds. I just have to use willpower to keep from buying a lot of the other knives, and make a decision on a certain type or style of knife and again save back the funds. Right now I'm looking to get a Microtech Socom Elite A next week.
 
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