So guys, how do you stop yourself from buying everything that looks cool?

GarageBoy said:
How do you guys do it?
I see something I like and automatically "have to have it"

How do you control yourselves?
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Focus on "Quality over Quantity." And make yourself wait and save up. Even if you don't really need to, if you put aside money for the desired item and end up spending it on something else, you didn't really want the item you saved for.

Of course, I went on a pretty wild spending spree when I first started posting here, and if I had more, uh, disposable income, I'm sure it would be even be--I mean worse.
 
DaveH said:
that's easy. Very very few knives are better then a sebenza. I have a sebenza. So why waste money on lesser knives?
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Very very few knives are more expensive than a sebenza. He has a sebenza. Therefore he has no money left to spend on other knives.

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oh theres lotsa knives more expensive than a seb.

for the price of an emerson custom (and others too like tom mayo) ya could buy oh 3 or maybe 4 sebs lol.

my girlfriend cant figure why i need multiples of everything, ie so many knives, lites, guns, she can understand having a nice knife or 2, couple of nice lites, a good rifle, shotgun and pistol, but she says i go overboard sometimes, & she also cant belive what some things cost especially surefire lites, i bought a scoutlite for my AR15 last summer and she could not fathom that it cost ~$350, she just couldnt lol.

incredibly enough given the $$ ya can finally get what ya like, want, need, and ya dont have the urge so bad anymore unless its something REALLY neat, that ya really need, like that scoutlite.
 
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I tell myself: "The blade chips and the maker sucks!" Helps pretty much..:D
 
3mptin3ss said:
to be honest, i sometimes feel pretty guilty for spending so much money on knives i dont need and then i turn on the tv and see images of iraqi kids looking through rubble for food, or kids in africa digging for diamonds with their bare hands in order to get a meal :(
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While I agree with your point about feeling bad sometimes about your ability to buy things you want when so many people in the world can't afford even the basic necessities, unless you spend a truly insane amount of money on knives--which I doubt--your consumption probably isn't anywhere near what some people in the developed world spend on 'fun' purchases. Like designer clothes, meals at high-end restaurants, expensive drinks, expensive sports (pro-sport tickets, playing golf), etc. Even middle-class folks spend enormous amounts on these things, partly due to easy credit.

In the end, knives are still tools: they are meant to do something practical, and be used everyday. And--as is proved here on the board all the time--they can be sold or bartered, unlike a lot of things.
 
My fiance says I don't.:D

New Hoyt Katera w/ drop away rest, dozen Easton Litespeed carbon arrows, Scott archery lil goose release, Cobra DRM pin sight, standard peep sight= $1,200+

Countless number of firearms (several HK pistols inc. Mk23, USP compact .40, USP Tactical) (2 1911s inc. Les Baer Premier II and Kimber TLE II) (S&W pre lock Customs Service model 686)(FN shotgun)(2.5 ARs, one custom barreled by Denny at GTS Supply) (a Ruger 10/22)(and a partridge in a Pear tree).= I don't know and don't care to count

I've got flashlights from Fenix and Surefire for days (Fenix 3PD, TK10 x2; Surefire A2, E1, G3, G2)

Gas powered 1/8th scale 4wd Mayhem buggy, electric Associated RC10T3 Team truck, electric 1/18th Associated stadium truck.

Knives are limited to an older Benchmade/Balisong Elishewitz tanto folder. A SOG Twitch II. A Gerber LMFII. And my latest acquisition a Crusader Forge Oberland02 in 3D titanium finish.


And my Jeep (04 Rubicon) which we now use on the weekends as a "toy".

I keep her happy, we've both got good jobs. As long as you don't go into debt, buy all the toys you want. My theory is "Buy once, cry Once"...you'll actually save money in the long run if you do your research and buy a well-made example of what you want as opposed to buying cheap.
 
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All my hobbies have gotten expensive..
Shaving
Flashlights
Watches
Fountain Pens...

NOT a pretty picture
 
Cougar Allen said:
Procrastinate! :)

Don't even try to stop yourself -- that's too hard. Tell yourself okay you'll buy it, but not right away, in a while ... if you still want it.... :)
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What he said. This is the only method to control and not hurt yourself. I'm using it to the max. Sometimes it works :D But those times are really enough to save your income and marriage :o
 
Other than an occasional custom I don't see that much that I like any more. If I like it enough I buy it. Maybe two or three a year.
 
I bought two folders in the last 30 days. I have very little natural self control. Therefore, to save my finances and keep my mortgage company happy, I have acquired self control. She is called "wife." She helps to make sure I don't buy every knife I see.
 
GarageBoy said:
All my hobbies have gotten expensive..
Shaving
Flashlights
Watches
Fountain Pens...

NOT a pretty picture
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How to have more money for knives:

Grow a beard
Don't go out at night
It's Happy Hour somewhere!
Pencils are cheap

There. Now you can buy more knives. Thank God you didn't have guns on the list...that would have screwed everything up! :D
 
my funds do not permit me. trouble with that is when i do get the money i have been seeing lots of knives and havent forgotten them so my spare cash all goes on knives. it truly is a problem, a very very enjoyable problem.
 
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