Casinostocks
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Thanks for the feedback!
Money was sent. So I will be anxiously awaiting my new EDC 2 arrival. My whining about things getting expensive was more of a backdoor compliment that anything else.
I tend to look more at the overall product, company, and long term usage/value than the price. For me, money is just a mechanism that allows me to do things. I see no intrinsic value in it. It's like potential energy. It's there, but unless and until you unleash it. It just sits there doing nothing.
Today's modern world certainly makes money a necessary evil. (And evil it is)
With the click of a button, money went from my account to Phil's account. Very cool in it's own right. But I am sort of a Luddite. I desperately cling to the old ways.
I may even fall further back than the fabled Mr. Ludd.
Perhaps as far back as Mr. Ugg. Your basic caveman. I think to myself, which would I rather have if I'm lost in the woods. A few paper bills that represent money/value? Or a solidly built knife? For me at least, it's a no brainer. The knife wins every time.
If I use my knife, it becomes value added. If I lock in in a cabinet. It remains very similar to those bills I used to purchase it with. I still has that value. It just remains unutilized.
To take that one step further. The knife is more inflation proof than those bills too. Taken at face value. A one hundred dollar bill is worth a hundred dollars. Simple enough. But if prices rise, like they always do. That hundred dollars buys me less than it should. A knife, (not all knives, just the good ones) rises with the inflation rate. Very cool.
As an example;
When I was young. I needed 47 one hundred dollar bills to purchaes a Ford F-150. In today's world. I need 550 of those one hundred dollar bills to purchase that Ford F-150. Imagine if Nathan had been making knives back then? What would they have cost? What would they be worth in today's money?
As a student of history.
I have come to view actual money almost as a liability. In good times, having it tends to lead to excess. A quick glance at the current debt levels carried by our government and it's people should illustrate that pretty well. And it's not just us, it's a global issue.
You buy and own bigger more expensive houses. Which in turn cost more to heat and maintain. You probably have a mortgage. Which means you have to pay insurance. More insurance, because you have a fancier house. You will also pay higher taxes because you have a more expensive home. This is all parasitic loss of income.
In bad times, when people turn. Having the nicest house and the fanciest car, certainly becomes even more of a liability. That mob will be targeting the comfortably well off first. In part out of necessity, in part out of envy and spite.
But even if the mob doesn't attack. Your home which was probably overvalued to begin with. Will start to shed value like a free falling safe. But insurance and taxes will remain fixed on the old value for a very long time.
My new and sexy Carother's EDC 2 will still be on my hip. Doing what I need it to do. No insurance, no taxes, no DMV fees, just a hunk of Good Ol' Delta 3V value. If times get bad. I'll want it even more. It times get better what will it be worth?
Now I'm willing to believe, there are many folks here way smarter than I. So I offer you two options.
Option #1.
Believe what I just wrote.
Option #2.
Don't.
But either way.
I strongly recommend you print this out and memorize it. I mean word for word. Then the next time you want a new Carother's Performance Knife. Recite it back to your spouse like the epiphany it is.
) Jo for months to sweet talk Nathan into making them available. They were $70 a set plus shipping when they were available. I just ordered and received some Terotuf EDC 2 scales @ $55 a set plus shipping. 
