What happens to your knives...

My wife is quite a bit younger than me so I'm fairly confident my knives (a collection of around 500) will end up being fondled by her future husband.

Sometimes the thought of another man handling and groping my knives makes me want to never buy another knife.


Nah, not really! Gotta keep buying knives!


Also, the thought of another man handling and groping my wife seems a little uncool too. I really hope he doesn't do it with one of my babies IWB.
 
Everything I own would go to my wife. I don’t like anybody else. :D And I’m too poor for the gov’t to take too much. What are they gonna do? Take the $23 I have in my wallet?

So he just needs to make sure she can’t find them. Although my wife would probably just give them to him anyway. Or sell them. Which is fine. Hell, she might get on here and try to sell them to yall for cheap. That’d work.

As for my remains, I want to be cremated and put in a Coke bottle with my favorite pen. There’s a nice Veterans cemetary just south of Springfield MO that I like so I hope she puts me there.
 
I have a list of my knives and most of my tools that i keep in a fire safe for my wife. It has what i paid for them, and a price for each of them that should have them sold pretty quick. It also has my BF user id and password so she can log in as me and how to go about selling them here(for the knives anyway).
So there might be sweet package deal out there one day from your friend sigsog226.....from the grave :o
 
My son gets them all. He's 8 and has a collection started ..some Cases, Uncle Henry's, Schrades and of course some Rough Riders ava Steel Warriors.
 
Hate to break it to some of y'all but your family/friends really don't want the burden of your stuff. Keeping it all is a ridiculous proposition because they already have their own stuff to deal with. Having to sell or dispose of all your clutter is extremely time consuming, laborious, and stressful. That's actually one of the biggest reasons I began decluttering and minimizing. Yes, I'm young and in great health but I've had enough close calls at work and also obviously see death at work all the time to hammer home the point to me. I am getting a will drafted up to take care of my biggest possessions and in that my safe, guns, and knives will go to my brother because he needs a safe and he is as passionate about guns and knives as me. He'll probably sell my guns and knives but he'll know how to do that and I only have a few of each so it's not as cumbersome as a large collection. But frankly I don't really care about that. My main concern is what happens to my dog if I die. For that I have a long list kept in my safe of names and contact numbers of who has expressly stated in no uncertain terms they will either give her a permanent home or would at the very least be willing to take care of her for a few weeks while a forever home could be found for her. I have backups on backups on backups for that scenario because she is what matters, not things.
 
My children don t seem to be interested. So I m going to list them on the exchange for great prices two weeks before I m going to die.

Then, if I get better, I m going to be pissed.
 
Sigsog226 said:
So there might be sweet package deal out there one day from your friend sigsog226.....from the grave :eek:
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whp said:
My children don t seem to be interested. So I m going to list them on the exchange for great prices two weeks before I m going to die.

Then, if I get better, I m going to be pissed.
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Don't worry. Someone here will flip them right back to you at twice what you sold them for.
 
I don't have kids, either, so I plan to leave mine to my sister's kids. They're only 5 and 3 right now, but I assume my nephew at least will have some interest. My bro-in-law is into guns, knives, etc., and is going to start taking him hunting when he gets a few years older. No idea whether my niece will have any interest, but I'll let them hash out the details after I've croaked. :D
 
Heirlooms are just that, I know many have family/personal attachments to various items but in the end your heirs can(and will) sell whatever they like. What value an item has is largely dependent on its influence upon the next generation.
 
Folks, just remember, what you "tell" somebody what to do with your stuff after you die has no real legal standing. Be SURE to write it all down in the form of a will with who gets what clearly stated. The idea of having all the good stuff listed with approx values is also a good thing.... BUT WRITE IT DOWN!!! Rather than ACCESS, use an open format such as LibreOffice or something. Who knows what programs will be in use 20 yr down the road - remember WordPerfect?
 
This is kind of hard. Sure, I have thousands wrapped up in knives and a large firearms collection. My wife won't keep them all and I know my son has already laid claim to several and my daughter would be give the opportunity to choose a few out for herself.

For knives, I have a few that are valuable to "me". I think my son gets it as he's now in college and has an ROTC scholarship to hopefully graduate, get his commission and go Active Duty.

I've had my Mad Dog PATAK for years and it's been on the most deployments from South America to various deserts. I carried my Randall #15 in Iraq. Rick Hinderer along with his wife and In-Laws packed a massive gift box full of stuff (I shared with my troopers) when he shipped my X18 to Afghanistan.

I have my very first "high end" knife I ordered from Shomertec way back in the early 90's when I was a 2LT...I still have that Busse Steel Heart II (in A2 steel).

Everybody had Benchmade autos when I was at Bragg...I just had to get that Microtech DA/SOCOM that did a few jumps with me.

There are probably another dozen blades I've owned with stories and memories attached. I would only want to pass the blade on to keep those memories and stories alive and something for my kids to reminisce and often joke about (at my expense of course). As I'm sitting over here in Afghanistan (again), I've though pretty hard about this. All of my possessions are just objects, some of more value than others. If a few can be kept for those memories, than it will be worth it...the rest can be sold off as part of an estate sale and my family split the revenue after taking a nice vacation.

I allowed my son to sell a few of my knives, so at least I know he's experienced to find and assess values. Guns are a little more difficult and with my collection size, it would be easier to go with an estate sale. I have a spreadsheet that is pretty accurate with MSRP, current value including accessories (optics, rails, upgraded furniture, etc.). Heck I don't even want to think about the logistical nightmare it would be to put all the knives and guns up for sale; it would be exponentially worse for a grieving window and kids...

Stay sharp!
ROCK6
 
I don't have kid, and only nieces. So when my time is over, I will put all my blades in a Pelikan box and bury it in a forest with a letter... It would be nice that in 200 years someone find it an put my blades in a nice display in a museum. I will take only 1 knife with me, my loved Finnish puukko.
 
Ken H> said:
Folks, just remember, what you "tell" somebody what to do with your stuff after you die has no real legal standing. Be SURE to write it all down in the form of a will with who gets what clearly stated. The idea of having all the good stuff listed with approx values is also a good thing.... BUT WRITE IT DOWN!!! Rather than ACCESS, use an open format such as LibreOffice or something. Who knows what programs will be in use 20 yr down the road - remember WordPerfect?
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I'm comfortable with "telling" someone as I know from experience that things don't go the way the deceased necessarily would have wanted. Pick your estate executors very carefully. It's important. Knives aren't a big deal from an estate planning perspective for me. Guns and art, yeah. Which is why I need to make some decisions now about those valuables.

Yeah, I remember Word Perfect. It used to be the standard government word processing software. I used to really like it mostly because I could easily adjust the margins page by page if I wanted to fit something. Remember Lotus spread sheets...
 
I tend to dismiss the value of knives. But I can tell you if you have been interested in knives for a long time and buy nice stuff, the accumulated value can be a lot more than you would ever suspect. I'm not talking about the junk stuff... they can go to the trash or to somebody that does flea markets for resale.
 
I guess there is a good reason to take a few good knives with you when you pass...

Just imagine the look on that poor humans face when you, as a zombie, come at them with a high quality blade!...and all they have is a stupid Z-Hunter.

This could really turn the tide for the zombie horde.
 
My wife just informed me, when I pass, our daughter gets first choice and the leftovers are sold or given away.

I have, once again, informed her of my desire to have my favorite Kershaw buried with me.
 
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