What do YOU do with your knife?

I carry a knife at work everyday. Use it to cut cardboard, zipties, reinforced tubing, tape, stuff like that. Today I used it to retrieve a receipt from the gas pump, sort of got stuck and I couldn't get a grip on it the usual way.
 
I usually have a stockman or a leatherman wave. I usually use them for odd jobs like cutting string, opening parecels, cutting fruit, etc. Last use, I cut a cork tile for my wife's craft hobby.
 
I pretty much use my knives for everything. Think construction/demolition/renovation here. I work for a Housing Authority doing building maintenance on 135 apartments, most of which have concrete floors, ceilings and walls, as well as the usual porcelin fixtures and ceramic tiles. Right now, I'm doing a lot of recaulking on windows and countertops, and my knives get used to remove the old caulk.

Fortunately, I live in a small town in the midwest, where the largest employer is a beef packing plant. That means there are hundreds of people making their living with knives every day. I don't think anyone has asked me why I carry in twenty years :D
 
I use my knives for what everybody else does, generally light maintenance tasks... paper, tape, boxes, etc.

On weekends or leave I go hiking alot with my daughter and camping with wife and daughter. Then I'll use the one I brought for general purpose camp stuff... starting fire (practice w/daughter), cutting cord, whittling, etc.

At all other times when I'm carrying it but not using it...... I'm looking for something to cut!
 
Mostly just odds-and-ends stuff, like cut loose threads or open envolopes. Although in my recent past I've used my EDC very hard on the job site. Probably will again in the near future.

Basically, my EDC has to deal with everything from cutting rope or hosing to vines, or even some food at lunch or removing a splinter!
 
If I told what I used my knife for, I would have to kill you!!


Just kidding!! I use it for the many reasons that folks have already mentioned. I have never had anyone ever ask me why I carry a knife.
 
I forgot where I got this, but I have it in my office just in case someone asks me...:

"My good reason to carry a knife is that God gave me rather weak teeth and rudimentary claws in an evolutionary trade-off. The hairy-armed person who figured out how to put an edge on a suitable rock made it possible for us to be recognizably human in the first place. I wear a wristwatch whether or not I have an appointment to keep, and I carry a pen and/or pencil because I am a literate person whether or not I have a specific writing task ahead of me, and I carry a knife because I am a human and not an ape.

A knife comes in handy for all sorts of random tasks that involve separating matter. Like cutting a string, or making a sandwich, or opening a package. It can also come in handy in an emergency, which need not involve a human assailant, and emergencies are by their nature unforeseen, so one should carry a knife all the time.

And in a perfect world where nobody needed a weapon, I'd probably carry a slightly larger knife, because it wouldn't scare people."

-- James K. Mattis
 
A knife is a tool, and a tool is an extension of my body. With that said a knife is personal type of tool, not like the ones in my tool box. Knives are primarilly used for cutting, but also for things like food preparation and personal grooming, sliver removal and SD.
 
I have a knife for when someone says, "Does anyone have a knife?" I can step forward and do some cutting (as long as it isn't prying). And also for the usually stuff, opening things, cutting tape, etc....
 
I find that though I don't use my knives every day, when I do end up using them, really need them and I use them a lot. In the house, I generally will carry my multitool and it really helps. General EDC can vary in tasks from packages to wraps and cardboard and hopefully never but just in case, SD. I'm actually one of the people who don't l ike to use pocket knives on my food. I had my girlfriend who doesn't EDC a knife ask me one time why I didn't "just use my folder to cut the food?". Kinda ironic.
 
Opening packages, mail and plastic wrapped items, whittling and firestarting, general food prep, shaving, trimming nails, prying safet guards off bics, building shelters, scraping things, poking holes into stuff etc.

EDC a large folder and / or a medium sized SAK plus Vic Classic on keychain. Only comments I've gotten on my knives were people remarking about how sharp they were, nothing negative.
 
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