Thinking about selling nearly all my knives. Anyone get that far out of collecting? How did it go?

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John Phillips said:
This might help and it’s fun. However many knives you have, if you can pick out your top 12, 24, 32, 64. Rank them top to bottom and then place them according to ranking just like a March madness bracket.

I actually laid out my top 32 on the table in a bracket style so that I could handle each one as I made the decision which one moved on to the next bracket and which one lost. I was COMPLETELY surprised with what made the elite 8 and the final 4. The hardest part was picking the Champion, as in the only one I could keep and the ultimate winner.

Some knives that I thought were my favorites didn’t make the cut when I had to pick a winner and a loser at each level. Pretty fun overall and you might find out which ones you won’t miss as much if you sell them.
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I thought about this approach the other day, but most of my knives were hard to find and once seller’s remorse sets in I would be SOL. My knives work this way,if I want to buy one I try and sell the least liked to cover the cost and keep my knives below 50 count. I had sold most of my folders and was just buying fixies,now I have gone 360 on that and have a bunch of folders and fixies. Thinning my (over $500) knives down,just sold one yesterday for $750. Did a lot of online shopping last night, was able to walk away with no new buys. 😁
 
BootKnifeFan said:
How many knives do you plan to sell off?
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15-20. I "rent" my knives and my collection is deliberately small.

Over the past few days I've woken up every morning, looked at my piles and thought about my needs, and made Pile 1 smaller. It currently consists of just three knives (Inkosi, GEC Barlow, SAK Companion).

Every time I pocket the lone modern folder in that group, the Inkosi, I think to myself, "What could come up today that wouldn't be solved by this knife?" Later in the day I reflect on the day's events, and so far the answer is, "Nothing."
 
Dadpool said:
I've never heard it put this way, but that's sort of what I've been doing for the past few years. I guess this would just be making a deliberately small Pile 1 and selling Pile 2 and 3.

I'm thinking about things more like how I approach watches. (Which, as an aside are waaay too expensive for the "rental model" I've adopted for knife collecting.) In terms of daily drivers I have "my" watch, an automatic diver (6 oz.); a 2 oz. G-SHOCK for summer and anytime I want something really lightweight; and a just-for-fun dive watch right in between the two (4 oz.). That's the perfect number of watches for me to have as a rotation. They all get roughly equal time throughout the year and they all bring me joy.

Obviously knives != watches, but some version of that is what's calling to me.
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Obligatory "I mean, shouldn't they all tell time the same?" rag here!

:D
 
marcus aurelius said:
I think it makes sense. This is similar to how our taste in knives and edc gear changes over time. Eventually you learn what it is that you really like to carry and what is sitting on the shelf.
You're not getting out of knives. You're refining your collection.
Maybe don't sell things that would be literally impossible to replace, if you really like it. But production knives can all go.
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DocJD said:
Yeah , don't do it ! :eek:
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There will always be regrets.
 
Dadpool said:
15-20. I "rent" my knives and my collection is deliberately small.

Over the past few days I've woken up every morning, looked at my piles and thought about my needs, and made Pile 1 smaller. It currently consists of just three knives (Inkosi, GEC Barlow, SAK Companion).

Every time I pocket the lone modern folder in that group, the Inkosi, I think to myself, "What could come up today that wouldn't be solved by this knife?" Later in the day I reflect on the day's events, and so far the answer is, "Nothing."
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You just want to sell 15-20 knives? 🤔

That would represent less than 5% of my collection. 🤷‍♂️

I've pulled out 5 (just over 1% of my collection) that I'd like to sell but just can't get around to it.

I just keep buying more. LOL!!! 🤪
 
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sgt1372 said:
You just want to sell 15-20 knives? 🤔

That would represent less than 5% of my collection. 🤷‍♂️

I've pulled out 5 (just over 1% of my collection) that I'd like to sell but just can't get around to it.

I just keep buying more. LOL!!! 🤪
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Interesting how you made the post all about yourself, bragged about your collection and also insulted the OP while not offering an ounce of help/advice to the OP. I wouldn’t really care if I didn’t see a history of you doing this repeatedly and I’d think it was just a fun jab.

However, the amount of times I’ve read you bragging about your collection is nauseating dude. We all get it, you want everyone to know you have a “large” collection of 500 knives or/and that you’re doing well enough financially to have what I’d guess is around $250,000 or so in a knife collection, big damn deal man.

I applaud anyone who builds wealth and finds success, full stop. People who feel secure in themselves don’t need to brag about their wealth all the time.

Bragging about yourself and belittling someone else in the same post, winner winner we have a classic narcissist in the building!!!

Care to share pictures of your private jets, super car collections, mansions and your multiple yachts while you’re at it? Or, just post your net worth so we can all be super impressed or probably not.
 
John Phillips said:
Interesting how you made the post all about yourself, bragged about your collection and also insulted the OP while not offering an ounce of help/advice to the OP. I wouldn’t really care if I didn’t see a history of you doing this repeatedly and I’d think it was just a fun jab.

However, the amount of times I’ve read you bragging about your collection is nauseating dude. We all get it, you want everyone to know you have a “large” collection of 500 knives or/and that you’re doing well enough financially to have what I’d guess is around $250,000 or so in a knife collection, big damn deal man.

I applaud anyone who builds wealth and finds success, full stop. People who feel secure in themselves don’t need to brag about their wealth all the time.

Bragging about yourself and belittling someone else in the same post, winner winner we have a classic narcissist in the building!!!

Care to share pictures of your private jets, super car collections, mansions and your multiple yachts while you’re at it? Or, just post your net worth so we can all be super impressed or probably not.
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Even funnier - he doesn’t use any of them.

Or so he proudly proclaimed for years, anyway.
 
John Phillips said:
Interesting how you made the post all about yourself, bragged about your collection and also insulted the OP while not offering an ounce of help/advice to the OP. I wouldn’t really care if I didn’t see a history of you doing this repeatedly and I’d think it was just a fun jab.

However, the amount of times I’ve read you bragging about your collection is nauseating dude. We all get it, you want everyone to know you have a “large” collection of 500 knives or/and that you’re doing well enough financially to have what I’d guess is around $250,000 or so in a knife collection, big damn deal man.

I applaud anyone who builds wealth and finds success, full stop. People who feel secure in themselves don’t need to brag about their wealth all the time.

Bragging about yourself and belittling someone else in the same post, winner winner we have a classic narcissist in the building!!!

Care to share pictures of your private jets, super car collections, mansions and your multiple yachts while you’re at it? Or, just post your net worth so we can all be super impressed or probably not.
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AntDog said:
Even funnier - he doesn’t use any of them.

Or so he proudly proclaimed for years, anyway.
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I don’t know gents. He has been here a while.

Back when, you could pick up Spyderco’s for $40-$125, I think that is when he bought a bunch of them.

I had quite the collection of production knives (no where near 500) pre-crazy prices. But I sold them off, because who really needs a bunch.

Let’s not alienate other affectionados whether they use ‘em or not. 🤷‍♂️
 
Sharp & Fiery said:
I don’t know gents. He has been here a while.

Back when, you could pick up Spyderco’s for $40-$125, I think that is when he bought a bunch of them.

I had quite the collection of production knives (no where near 500) pre-crazy prices. But I sold them off, because who really needs a bunch.

Let’s not alienate other affectionados whether they use ‘em or not. 🤷‍♂️
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I think it was the snobbery of "oh, just 15-20 knives"

I have 1 million knives (enter maniacal laughing while pinky held to corner of mouth)

The never using any knives part is just icing.
 
shinyedges said:
I think it was the snobbery of "oh, just 15-20 knives"

I have 1 million knives (enter maniacal laughing while pinky held to corner of mouth)

The never using any knives part is just icing.
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Oh I understood. I’m not necessarily disagreeing, but the world needs more kindness these days. IMO.
 
FWIW I wasn't offended. It might seem a bit silly to start a whole thread about selling a relatively small number of knives, especially when I've been selling (and buying) knives here for a decade.

For me it's more about the philosophical shift from "I have a knife collection I've spent years refining until every piece is a knife I really appreciate" to "I have three knives I love and that's plenty." I'm still wrapping my brain around that shift. :)
 
If you're not feeling it anymore and want to sell it off and move on, have a it and more power to you.

I've sold about 10 knives this year for similar reasons with a few yet that I may let go, still have the ones I like and use, with more yet still that get not a lot or very little use at all..

Doesn't mean I don't like to look, but even that's starting to wane.... I got what I need.

There's different horizons to cross and I'm not taking it all with me.
 
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