What plans for 2024?

The couple of knives I was looking for hadn't materialized, so I bought my wife an Iwatch and am now saving for an iPhone 15 of some sort.
Count for 2023... two purchased and one BD gift.total spent.. about 85$
 
A month or two back I thinned down the collection 7. Those being either regular users or sentimental. I replaced the BM 940 I had carried for years with a ZT last January and that knife has spent everyday of this past year in my pocket. I don’t see any need to change that.
 
I sold most of my collection about a year and a half ago. Kept what i knew i were my keepers. Then i dove pretty deep into guns this past year with those funds.

So for 2024, im gonna refocus first by making a humble budget for "fun" stuff/wants, and focus on those knives/guns i know i really want. Really hoping we get a Military 2 in the 20cv/m390 family this year. I want to try one out, but waiting for the right variant for me.
 
Gave away most of my knives to close friends of mine the last couple of years. I’d like to add one more PM2 when the right one comes around, as it’s my main user, and it will be turning 13 in 2024. I’m only in my 30’s now, and the five knives I have now should hopefully last me the rest of my life.

Even the “old” blades show no signs of slowing down, and with how good steels are now (and how hard they are getting to sharpen), I think the trends are starting to exceed my abilities… I should probably stick with what I know, and can easily keep sharp.
 
I’ve really slowed on purchasing production knives in 2023. Rushing online to buy the next <insert weird Chinese knife brand name here> no longer does anything for me. I’m very bored with production knives.

At the same time, I’m getting older. I need to realize that owning some weird, rare Spyderco might be meaningless to my survivors. Why hold onto it?

I have 600+ production knives spanning 1986 to present. I pulled out my inventory spreadsheet and realize that I have 100s of production folders I’ll never carry. They’re not loved enough to find a way into my pocket.

While the collection has bloated, my appreciation for knives has refined. I think I could sell off half (or more) of my collection and never miss a single knife.

Anyway, that’s my knife goal for 2024; reduce the collection to knives I carry, use or that have significant emotional or collectible value. The challenge is to determine the marketplace to sell them.
 
Not buying anymore knives. I have enough for a few lifetimes and it'd be pretty hard for anything new to the market to surpass all the current favorites in possession.
 
Just one on my radar - Grimsmo Rask.

I have several GECs and a Bradford to sell. Possibly a Fiddleback Forge or two to offset or partially offset the cost of the Rask.
 
Well, I have one knife on the way to me and I'm very much looking forward to that.

However, I really would like to have two more knives that unfortunately don't exist:

Becker BK2L - an 8" long version of the BK2
Spyderco UKPK in a 3.5" blade version
 
Wasty said:
Well, I have one knife on the way to me and I'm very much looking forward to that.

However, I really would like to have two more knives that unfortunately don't exist:

Becker BK2L - an 8" long version of the BK2
Spyderco UKPK in a 3.5" blade version
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Ugh...... If we start now, you just might get the 2L by Next Christmas..... :/
 
There are a few Traditionals I'd like in a cv, cs, 1095 and that's about it. I'm done with the fancy and going back.
 
TrainedBullets said:
Just one on my radar - Grimsmo Rask.

I have several GECs and a Bradford to sell. Possibly a Fiddleback Forge or two to offset or partially offset the cost of the Rask.
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Add me to that list as well, I have become quite enamored with what Grimsmo is doing; a Rask is definitely something I would like to obtain this year.

My strategy sounds a bit like yours as well; I don't want to accumulate more however, so I am figuring out what I would part with.
 
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