Sobering knife addiction

ccsavage

ccsavage

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This is kinda corny but I'm going to tell the story anyhow. About six months ago I found myself beaten down and plain sick and tired. A lifetime of alcohol consumption(abuse) was getting the best of me and I found some willpower(i had plenty since I'd never used any of it) and quit.. this was not easy at all. After a month I started figuring how much money I had saved....being a knife nut I thought why not reward myself with a small sebenza. Very nice I thought! Awhile later I bought a few more knives and started getting on this site a reading all the posts.. the knives were helping me keep my mind occupied almost 24 hours a day....hunting for a knife.....ordering one...watching the tracking....hounding the mailbox...on and on constantly searching for the next great knife.. whether I knew it or not the pocket knives I love so much were helping me to get sober. Last night I tallied up what I have spent on knives in the last six months for a total of a little over 5 grand . I may have exceeded what would have been spent on booze and lost work time but I have achieved six month sobriety and have one heck of a pocket knife collection to show for it. Thanks for reading:D
 
Well done CC:thumbsup::thumbsup:
Had a similar epiphany myself last year.
I still enjoy a few beers now and then but the wines and spirits are done.
The good thing about trad knives is that unlike grog which disappears in a haze you can flip them later (you didnt hear that from me:cool::D).
 
- great stuff, we’ll done, sir :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Just goes to show, eh........we have a crazy world - if people (general public) here in U.K. read you’d spent $5k on booze in 6months they’d be jealous :D ........but $5k on knives and they’d want you locked up :rolleyes: .....but you’re alright by me and any sane folk I know :cool:
 
Congratulations sir on your sobriety. Just relax and take it one knife at a time. Maybe spend some time using and sharpening them and you can write us up some reviews on what you have. Just a couple ideas to help keep your mind occupied.
 
Congratulations CC I found myself at that jumping off point myself almost 11 years ago now. I knew for the first time in my life of drinking (witch was 21 years and I had just turned 35 2 months before)that I couldn't possibly go on living the way I had. On the other hand I couldn't imagine living life without Booze. I had zero coping skills and anytime something went wrong I turned to the bottle. Thankfully I knew a few people who had turned there lives around through a great 12 step program that held meetings 3 times a week in my naborhood. Like yourself I found it hard at first and I mostly stayed away from all my old friends. I had to they all drank every day just like me. In time things got alot easier and I learned a he'll of alot at those AA meetings about more then just how to put the plug in the jug.This October will be 11 years for me and I still go to at least 2 meetings a week. People that don't understand always ask me. "Why do you still go to all those meetings you haven't drank in years?" Or my all time favorite "Shoot your doing great now I'm sure you could have a few beers without any problems" To witch I always say. " Sure what the hell poor me a dubble and call the cops" :confused::mad:;) what they don't understand is a true alcoholic never gets better in the sense that they can handle drinking some day. It's just not possible and that was a hard thing for me to except but thank God I finally did. Of course the other reason I still go to the meetings is to give back to the new alcoholics just like someone did for me all those years ago and still do to this day. OK I've raved on way to long sorry about that but your story really got me thinking back. Also when I first started collecting knives and joined BladeForums I mentioned a little about my struggle with alcohol in a post and that same day I got an email. It was from a fellow knife knut that said he really related to what I said and that alone is worth taking the time to tell my tail. Good luck my friend and God bless. Trevor
 
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ccsavage said:
This is kinda corny but I'm going to tell the story anyhow. About six months ago I found myself beaten down and plain sick and tired. A lifetime of alcohol consumption(abuse) was getting the best of me and I found some willpower(i had plenty since I'd never used any of it) and quit.. this was not easy at all. After a month I started figuring how much money I had saved....being a knife nut I thought why not reward myself with a small sebenza. Very nice I thought! Awhile later I bought a few more knives and started getting on this site a reading all the posts.. the knives were helping me keep my mind occupied almost 24 hours a day....hunting for a knife.....ordering one...watching the tracking....hounding the mailbox...on and on constantly searching for the next great knife.. whether I knew it or not the pocket knives I love so much were helping me to get sober. Last night I tallied up what I have spent on knives in the last six months for a total of a little over 5 grand . I may have exceeded what would have been spent on booze and lost work time but I have achieved six month sobriety and have one heck of a pocket knife collection to show for it. Thanks for reading:D
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Good job on getting/staying sober!
Make sure you post that collection
 
+1 Not to put a damper on things, but it sounds like you traded one addiction for another.
Maybe go into a heavy research, consider, reconsider X2 and then purchase phase. I know you didn't ask for advice, but I went bonkers over knives too.
 
Congrats on getting off the booze.

Buying so many knives so quickly may seem compulsive to many, but at least you have something to show for it at the end of the day besides a raging hangover.

As long as you are paying your mortgage, putting some $$$ away for a rainy day and putting food on the table for the family, there are worse things you could do...
 
Ramrodmb said:
I don't buy in to the 'traded' crap. I don't see how the two are even in the same realm.
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No one said they're the same. But you don't see the potential harmful effects of excess, regardless of the form it takes? The man says he spent $5k on knives in the last six months, that he thought about them all the time. It might have been hyperbole, it might merely be enthusiasm for a new hobby, but it could also be rebounding from one bad relationship with another.
 
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