The Cheapskate Club Membership Thread

I’m in at #24.
I have a number of valuable knives that were gifts, and I am in charge of my Dad’s knives, but I would never pay the price for myself.
I will say, I completely understand upper end collection. They are beautiful and seductive. Fun to see.
So, if I buckle and buy a custom CR, can I sell my #24 spot, or am I just banished?
 
Count me as #26. Heck, until I found this place I'd never spent over $50 on a knife, ever, and probably not over $30. You guys have ruined me, now I'll willingly spend $200 on a knife which for this forum is cheap. Can't do that often though as I'm a senior citizen.
 
I hope no one really wanted to be #27 😁. It is 3 to the third power, so it's a special number!

Shorttime said:
Wait, does this mean I need a signature line....?
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You can be like me, and paste it every time!

Nebuchadnezzar said:
What's my discount?
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Spoken like a true cheapskate 😄

jasonbroni said:
#4 here - I honestly didn't think this thread was going to go anywhere.. great job, Dogstar!
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I think we are all feeling a little apprehensive financially at the moment. I am pleasantly surprised with the response myself.

GmpaJim said:
So, if I buckle and buy a custom CR, can I sell my #24 spot, or am I just banished?
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Nah, membership is your prerogative, come and go as you please. Unlike American Express, membership has NO privileges!

Thanks everyone, for joining!

Dogstar
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dogstar said:
I hope no one really wanted to be #27 😁. It is 3 to the third power, so it's a special number!


You can be like me, and paste it every time!


Spoken like a true cheapskate 😄


I think we are all feeling a little apprehensive financially at the moment. I am pleasantly surprised with the response myself.


Nah, membership is your prerogative, come and go as you please. Unlike American Express, membership has NO privileges!

Thanks everyone, for joining!

Dogstar
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Hello fellow cheapskater. All my knives are users, so I don’t really grab anything uber expensive that I’d be afraid to damage. I don’t baby my blades nor do I abuse them, but I demand of them to fulfill their function. I spend around the $100 mark, plus or minus 50%.

DZ98
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29 is Good.....I act and feel like I'm still under 30?

Haha....:)

I'm fairly typical here......
Loved knives my whole life.

Couldn't spend much, usual reasons.
Started with a large Old Hickory butcher knife that I modded for camping and chopping. That got me hooked...... Eventually I became a BeckerHead, and if anyone here knows Them, they pride themselves on being frugal!

I wasn't exactly finding what I wanted? I modified Everything.
Slowly I drifted into customs. Buying for good deals here, then eventually actually working with maker's designing My own, having them make them.
I did that for awhile. Maybe I should of stopped there?

Still thing's weren't "right" with my process....... So I started Making my own.
Now, I've spent what is turning into real money, to save because of all the knives I want.
Thinking about helping others by selling some of what I make, or maybe it's just me enabling others so I don't feel so bad, idk? Lol. 😂😂😂
 
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My EDC (Okapi) cost me $22, and my most expensive knife is my Victorinox Fieldmaster, which cost me a little over $40. The vast majority were under $20. Not gas station or big-box retail junk, just simple, solid knives. Here is a sampling:

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Note that not one of the above is made you-know-where…

I am frugal for sure, and definitely a cheapskate when it comes to spending on myself, but my love of inexpensive knives is more just because they appeal to me somehow. If I NEEDED to spend more than 30 or 40 bucks to get a decent knife, I would.

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For lovers of traditional cutlery, we have this:

Thrifty Thursday... Cheap Traditional Knives

Micarta Monday, Trapper Tuesday, Wooden Wednesday... We all carry some pretty nice knives, some of them are down right expensive. I think we need a day devoted to those "cheap" inexpensive knives I know we all have. "Thrifty Thursday" so we will carry those cheaper Traditional knives and show...
www.bladeforums.com www.bladeforums.com
 
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I'm in, because the club concept appeals to me. :)

My EDC is a Spyderco Canis... Not particularly exotic by the standards of this website, but not generally considered "cheap" either. Ah -- but there is more to the picture. My sister gifted me a generous Amazon gift card that covered just about a half of that knife's purchase. So maybe I'm a quasi-cheapskate. :D

In the past few years, I've been looking at "value" knives. I bought an Ontario Rat 2 folder (AUS8 version) for $25 from Walmart just to have another knife for knocking around. It's a decent knife. During gift-giving occasions, my wife asks me to provide her a wish list (on top of anything else she might be getting me). I'm pretty sure I can ask for a high-end Fallkniven or whatever, and she wouldn't blink. But I don't want to break the "Bank of Wife," so I look at value options that intrigue me. Ergo, I wound up with (at different times) a Mora Bushcraft Forest, a Mora Garberg, a Boker Plus PryMini Pro, and a Spyderco Swick 6 (that last one's maybe not so cheap -- but again, by the standards of this website, not an eye-popper).

Another way I'm cheap -- I keep things FOREVER (or try to)... Knives, guns, cars, computers, etc. I drove a Nissan NX2000 for 14.5 years, and would have gone well past 15 if a chain-reaction accident hadn't totaled it. My current car is a 2008 Lexus IS250. I've never owned a car less than 10 years. I milked the heck out of Windows XP (actually, all versions of Windows) until it (and the surrounding infrastructure) would no longer support the apps I need.

So count me in as cheapskate #32 -- in spirit, and probably in deed too... :)
 
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Let me tell you about a REAL cheapskate.
He (and his victim wife) live in a nice home. He has a vintage 442, jet boat, Harley, new F150 every few years etc.
If the crew goes out to dinner…one check for all ..he’s all about shrimp cocktail, Margarita & prime rib. If it’s single checks, it will be a draft and the special. He was spotted scarfing a portion of a communal tip. To me that’s not cheap, that’s theft.
So don’t judge yourself to harshly. There are some real cases out there.
Sorry D dogstar I’m a compulsive BSer🤷‍♂️
 
A abcdef i think the opposite would be kinda fun: picking an annual cheapskate knife for all of us to buy (on our own, because clearly nobody here would want to eat shipping costs for all of us). Just think of the endless polls we could host...bliss.

And whoever gets the annual cheapskate knife at the lowest cost - via legal means such as purchase, barter, dumpster diving, etc. - gets crowned cheapskate of the year.

- Cheapskate #10
 
Count me in!

As a disillusioned knife nut that found out a Randall didn't cut a piece of rope any better than a mora, or a high dollar Damascus folder from a customer maker didn't open a package any better than a SAK. Now I won't spend any more than it takes to buy a SAK or Mora or Opinel.
 
I’m so cheap I waited to post til I could get #38, bigger number for my investment.

Like Crag, I went through the steps to get to making my own knives. But with an added twist: I only make them out of steel I can get for free. The one I’m carrying now, forged it from a broken 5/8” threading tap discarded on a job. I think it’s M2 tool steel. The one I’m working on now, my neighbor was going to throw out half a crosscut saw blade that went through a garage fire. (I thought, hey! L6 and it’s already annealed!) So I’m stingy with money, but generous with my time.

I also buy used knives occasionally, at swap meets and yard sales. And I buy new knives cheap (like under 100) from new makers just starting out - not always the highest quality of the guy’s later knives, but it helps him on his way.

So the concept appeals to me (as long as there’s no membership dues).

Parker
 
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