Who will inherit your knives?

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Stoicism encourages a man to reflect on his mortality from a productive and dispassionate perspective. Given that our knives don’t “die” of considerable rust or catastrophic failure, they will most likely stick around long after we are gone. This begs the question: who will keep our blades and tools when we pass on?
 
I have three boys. The youngest being 40. I don't think any of them have ever had to buy a pocket knife on their own, and there'll still be plenty around here for them to divvy up when I'm gone.

I always joke with them: "You ever see a hearse with a luggage rack & pulling a U-Haul? That's gonna be me. I'm taking it ALL with me. Guns, knives, money, tools.......ALL of it!"
 
Kinfolk are only after valuable things to turn into quick cash.
not many care for old stuff, especially if its a used item.
So unless one leaves behind priceless stuff like king tut's treasure,
I just know that whatever's left of my worldy posessions
would either be buried n a landfill or carted away to charityland.
I hope to be able to save what ever knives in future to a kinder fate.
So if all goes to plan, i would (over a span of time) slowly pass them
on to folks who know how to treasure things or have a real need for them.
As we well know, knives in the hands of a non knife nut is just an edge tool.
Sadly anything without paper work in future would mean that the true value
of one's artifacts could pass hands grossly under valued or worst.
Yeah, a grim fate awaits many knives especially the old, worn and ugly.
It takes a certain kinda of individual to see beyond what sits before their very eyes...
 
My plan near the end is to pick my favorites from whatever my collection looks like at that distant time in the future, and gift those to my cherished family. All the rest, my wife will sell for all she can get, and use the money for whatever she wants. I won't care, I'll have left the building.
 
Assuming I go first, my wife would get them, otherwise my son. But they don't have any interest that I know of, so they'd most likely get sold off. If I'm still with it that far down the road I may sell off most of them myself and just keep a few favorites to pass along.
 
The garbage can will likely inherit most, if not all my knives. My entire family thinks it's madness to spend any more than twenty bucks for a knife, so their value means less than nothing to them.
 
I pondered that question for a while. My wife bugs me about it everytime the subject of my collection comes up. As of now the only person who "might" give a rats bum about them is my nephew. I am a bit worried his dad might step in and grab what he can. Just the way he is. But the nephew is a senior in H.S. and has a small collection of cheap gas station knives he seems to love. I plan on writing down what all I have and info about each one. I already have a small collection of pictures from the bay, where multiple people have bid and what it went for. Obviously of knives I own. Would like to add this site and tell him to watch auctions to see what they sell for if he is to sell any or just for his knowing. Hopefully he will enjoy them as I have but who knows. Anyone else I know would probably either sell them without any knowledge of what is there or just get rid of them one way or another.
 
If I know that I’m dying, I’ll sell off what I can and give the money to my wife. No one in my family cares about knives.
If I just drop dead from too much sex, then my wife will get them.

My old man dropped dead after a round of golf. Lucky bastard.
 
Already taken care of.

When I did my first bit downsizing of life stuff, I invited my family and friends over for a BBQ. I laid it all out on a table and everyone got to pick what they wanted. Kids, grandkids, nephews, nieces, co-workers/friends. The stuff nobody wanted like the big fixed blade Randall's and bladesmith society knives I sold off through A.G. Russell's. The wife and took a nice around the country trip with the money and had a ball.

I also did a lot of giveaways over in the traditional sub forum where I hung out a lot. Now I don't keep many knives on hand. Own just a few SAK's, a few different Opinels, and a Buck sheath knife that goes woods walking and fishing with me. I reached a point in life that the knives just didn't mean that much to me anymore. The people in my life are way more important than objects.
 
We talked about that with a few guys at a local knife show and so far I don't want anyone to inherit them. Just put them with the rest of my stuff in a car crusher.
But since that is most likely impossible, I stopped worrying about scratches or value loss and started using all my knives.

Safe queen collecting and caring about pristine condition seems pointless when you realize it will eventually go to some distant family member, their friend or government inheritance agent. People you don't know, like or care about and they feel the same about you. And they will mindlessly abuse, throw away or sell to pawn shop for a quick cash while you went through life with a cheap beater having drawer full of new in box.
 
No children for me. I will probably let my wife's great nephew pick out what he wants and the rest will be sold.
 
Most of my old knives have probably been through several estate sales. It’s a cycle, they get bought treasured, then sold again. They won’t go to waste.

My kids will end up splitting them up. Even though they already have every knife they’ll ever need. They can save them for their kids.
 
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My children aren't interested. Who wants to clean over 200 knives, a couple times a year? Me:).
Maybe one of my Grandchildren will be interested.
I try to gift/sell them to my family/friends/coworkers, when the opportunity arises. I have stopped buying knives...............for the most part. I am trying to come up with a top 100 (keepers) knife list.
I have made a Word doc with all of my knives, and their current values. That is about all I can do.
 
im real real picky about my knifes these days, but when pick one its always in the back of my mind that ill leave all my knifes to my only son after I'm gone.:thumbsup:
 
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