UNITE! Let's fight addiction! Feed the list! (Example and methods)

Alex17

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Here is a collection, and what his owner asks us to to about his addiction...

"Al Mar 12
Boker 40
Bear & Son 20
Buck 55
Bulldog 5
Case 210
Gerber 24
Lagioule 45
Schrade 112
Smith & Wesson 19
Victorinox 35
Kershaw 15
CRTK 26
Mulea 8
Marbles 11
Kabar 18
Puma 11
Uzi 5
SOG 12
Yellowhorse 35
Spyderco 18
Benchmade Rolox 5
Benchmade 11
Lonewolf 16
Mercworx 5
Strider 3
Dan Harrison 5
Alan Gerber 3
Shane Sloan 6
Bob Sky 2
Various Custom maker 30
Lots of others to a total of just under 1000 knives most on display
I think I might have a problem. Bought 2 more today. PLEASE Stop me."


:eek::rolleyes::(

He is trapped.
He needs HELP.
THIS is a mental survival situation, in some way. :)

So... What do you propose?
Here is my idea...
Let's make a list of all the reasons why we should NOT make our love for knives become an invasive obsession. :cool:
Ready? Here is the beginning of the list...

Having too many knives is a mistake and a sin, because it destroys your bank account first, and then your brains and you social life (like any other hysterical collection). It's a financial and emotional suicide, for while you endlessly waste your money on useless knives...
1. you don't buy presents for the people who love you, for your close family, best friends, closest coworkers, etc,
2. you put your future and your family at absurd financial risk,
3. you make your wife and children think you're an obsessional fetish perv (if not a pathetic loser), and that you love them less than you love knives (which is an emotional nightmare to them),
4. you lose your interest in things that have nothing to do with knives - and 99,99% of the Universe have nothing to do with knives, which means you lose your interest in life itself,
4. you cut things that don't need to be cut. :D

Now, your turn to find and share reasons to not become a one-track mind, and ways to jump out of the collection trap if you know some! Let's unite! Long life to knives! Death to addiction! :mad::D
 
I was thinking about the same thing. Maybe you should start making knives instead of buying. That way you can save more money? If you don't have the time, I recommend that you only buy customs or very hard to find ones so that you can sell them at the same price you purchased them.
 
I was thinking about the same thing. Maybe you should start making knives instead of buying. That way you can save more money? If you don't have the time, I recommend that you only buy customs or very hard to find ones so that you can sell them at the same price you purchased them.

And that is where you are terribly, terribly wrong. :D
 
Here's my personal cure:
- buying a house
- relocating for a few years to a country where it's difficult to import my knife collection.

When I am back I think I'll start making them, instead of continue to buy them.
 
When you have that many knives it can be difficut to properly care for them all. Oil and dust etc. You run the risk
of the knives losing value due to rust and neglect. He probably has knives he hasn't touched in years. He might be
better off as a knife trader rather than a knife collector. He needs to sell off at least half his collection and trade on
the other half. I'll keep an eye on the exchange for a large collection up for sale. :D
 
I got nothin'! My logical brain sees and understands but then something happens. Whether it's something small like a new Kershaw or something big like one of Brian Breedan's choppers. I loose focus and the next thing I know I've got a new addition to the family. :D
So asking me for help is like asking the snake in the garden of Eden what's for dinner.

Sorry I couldn't be of any help.
 
You don't have a problem...it's everyone else:eek:...they are all against you...they are just jealous....they want your blades and are plotting to steal them....be wary....buy more...its the only thing to silence the voices.....buy more...make more...buy more...make more....they're all against you:eek::confused::eek:...BUY MORE!!!....
 
I don't have a problem. I have at any given time no more than 3 knives. If I buy one, I sell one of my own or give it away. I have two knives right now (mind you, neither of them are under 300 dollars), one that I may have to sell to make ends meet. Even if I had all the money in the world, I don't think I'd have more than a handful since I'm very specific in what I like. I also don't like starting collections because sooner or later some knives get neglected in favor of, well, the favorites of the bunch.

Not quite related but still fitting, "Beware of the man who only owns one gun; he probably knows how to use it." -gun proverb
 
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(...) Having too many knives is a mistake and a sin (...)

:eek:

The upside is that they should be able to pull off a good heat treatment in hell... :p But I suspect hell may offer only POS knives and a six hundred and sixty-six minute long Nutnfancy video on the SOG Flash 1 on endless playback loop. Not gonna enjoy those Clockwork Orange eye-clamp thingies... :(
 
You don't have a problem...it's everyone else:eek:...they are all against you...they are just jealous....they want your blades and are plotting to steal them....be wary....buy more...its the only thing to silence the voices.....buy more...make more...buy more...make more....they're all against you:eek::confused::eek:...BUY MORE!!!....
Laughter of the week. I love you. Thank you. :):):)
 
The upside is that they should be able to pull off a good heat treatment in hell... :p But I suspect hell may offer only POS knives and a six hundred and sixty-six minute long Nutnfancy video on the SOG Flash 1 on endless playback loop. Not gonna enjoy those Clockwork Orange eye-clamp thingies... :(

In hell, your mission is to slice carpaccio with this:
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You don't have a problem...it's everyone else:eek:...they are all against you...they are just jealous....they want your blades and are plotting to steal them....be wary....buy more...its the only thing to silence the voices.....buy more...make more...buy more...make more....they're all against you:eek::confused::eek:...BUY MORE!!!....

DRAT!! I've been foiled again. I would have gotten away with it if it wern't for those meddling kids!!
 
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