Knives or house.... house or knives???

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Mountainwind

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Some choices are just plain hard to make. Because of gas prices, trying to keep this place from falling apart, I am planning on buying a house a lot closer to town.
So, I need to sell about $10,000 worth of knives to add to my house funds. Then find a sucke....I mean buyer for this place.
I'm not sure how to decide on what to sell. I have several completed series of Camillus, and a few series of Schrade I have finished and started on, so I may keep them and sell the rest.
I still need to finish the LB series.... so a LB4 is still in my future, and a couple of fixed blades. That's the problem with collecting knives, you always want more, always something else you need.
I really hate to do this, but (maybe:rolleyes:) somethings have to come first. :(
 
Mountainwind Im faced with the same problem right now myself. Sold my house last fall and paid off a lot of old debt. now Im in an apartment and saving for another house. but as far as I drive to work and with gas prices the savings account is building but not as fast as hoped. I may have to part with some but the problem is if I start parting out knives Im gonna have to get rid of my best stuff to get any measurable ammount of money. Ive been avoiding it at all costs and selling everything else I have which aint much. sucks dosent it.- Joel
 
Knife collecting is a great hobby. It is interesting, even facinating depending upon your enthusiasm and interest. There can be an adreniline rush when you sit on the edge of your chair watching the last minutes of an auction, or turn over a price tag at a flea market. And yes, your heart can skip a beat when you open a package containing a new knife and find that it is ten times better than you hoped.

And then there is the comraderie among fellow collectors. I've met some really great people through my interest in knives. But at the end of the day, there is the real life. The bills to pay and the house to buy, the truck that died and the cat to get fixed. The wife or kid's operation, and our own spinning off this mortal coil. Do what you have to do with your knife collections guys. You've learned a lot during the gathering, and some day when fortune smiles on you, you can start again with a clean slate and a better understanding of what you want to collect. And you can continue to learn in the meantime. Public Television...where learning never ends.:)

I do hope that neither of you will feel like you don't belong here with us because you have had to thin or disperse your collections. Even with NO KNIVES, you both still have a lot to share here as you have in the past.

Michael :thumbup:
 
Well, I wouldn't sacrifice my home for more knives. But neither would I give up my knives in order to move.

What I would do, postpone any new knife purchases until the housing situation is in order.

Good Luck!!
 
Thanks guys... I'm keeping my good stuff, but have a lot of extras and stuff that doesn't fit in with the series of knife I am keeping.
I just sold about $1500 in Beckers, and still have a box full I am keeping.
Some knives have no real value as far as selling, and I may give them away here to you guys. Some may be used or have small problems, but free is free.
Codger, I could never leave, as I would miss your words of wit. Sometimes you just have a way with words.
 
Codger I also appreciate your words. and I as well would never leave!!!! I have come to the conclusion though I have worked so hard at finding the few great knives I do have and the lots of pretty good ones. fact is the pretty good ones arent worth too much on ebay but quite a lot to me and the great ones I just can give up cause Ive worked too hard for. Im gonna keep selling my other junk for now and probablly never sell any I hope. besides could you imagine having to sell this guy..... he is my prize knife, kinda like a second son, LoL.- Joel

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I feel for you guys, in the period between separation and the divorce, I had to sell some pieces I'd have preferred to keep--and without being able to take the time to find the best buyers. The best advice I can think of it to keep the ones that have personal meaning, even if it means selling some of the rare stuff. The stuff I sold will never have the value to anyone else that it did to me, and I've since sold/traded off/given away the "rare" stuff simply because it had little meaning beyond intrinsic value.
 
i think a major step in knife collecting is realizing that you are really "renting" them. custom knife collectors continually sell their pieces, and only occassionally for a gain. there will always more fine knives to "buy" in the future. kinda like ART, you can rent that too. roland
 
Mountainwind - I understand what you're feeling - I started with Schrades, as a kid, with an LB7. I know where a brand new one is, and it's pricey, but I want it. I just can't justify the expense right now. :( I'm selling a lot of my other stuff, but that ol' sentimental feeling hits me right in the gut when I see an old Schrade. (If I had to sell everything but one brand, I'd keep my SchradeUSA's.)

We just moved (renting for now) but purging was the order of the day, for all of us. Knives and tools were my biggest sacrifices. We didn't necessarily need a lot of money, but I wanted to sell/trade/give away some of what was taking up room but wasn't all that sentimental.

Once I sold a few pieces, it became easier to think through what I wanted to do. Sold about thirty knives, no regrets. (Yet.)

The lesson for me: I'm gong to be a lot more thoughtful in my knife buying in the future.

thx - cpr
 
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I wanted to sell/trade/give away some of what was taking up room but wasn't all that sentimental.
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Same here. I have boxes of knives piled up in my bedroom. Anytime I need something, I have to move stuff.
If I had a place to display them, things might be a little different, but buying and putting them in a box, never to see the light of day for months on end, seems like a waste.
And I have no one to pass them on to. My daughter would sell them at give away prices, just to get some spending money.
Hopefully whatever house I buy, will have a lot of space, so I can use a extra room for shelves to lay my knives out on.
I am looking at one with a swimming pool, if I can come up with the money before it's sold, maybe everyone close by can come by for a pool/knife party.
Bring your own sharpener....
 
I'll bring my pool cleaning supplies and my dive gear. Nothing like the quiet of a pool bottom for an hour or so. Even for a deaf guy! Maybe someone will show up giving away SD40s. ;)
 
Dive gear??? A fellow diver I see. Yes, the bottom of a cool pool would be a good place to hide out.
It's not a large pool, but it does look nice and relaxing.
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If times get very tough then people just have to be concerned with basics, food, clothing, shelter luxuries like collectables in that kind of setting become almost completely worthless. In fact if there comes a time when all my knives are almost totally worthless becuase people are just not able to afford those luxuries and if the result is the money I spent on those knives would have been better kept and spent on food for my children then I may end up easily despizing the things I once loved.
For that reason I prefer to hold on to them with a loose hand.
 
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