Wives & Your Knives?

Not yet my wife but we have bought an condominium together...
She didn't care this obsession at all (sometimes amused her friends telling stories about her weird boyfriend) until last week.
I got spyderpack from James M and announced that after our move from my small apartment to the new one I'll hang it on the wall to admire my treasures.
She said NOOOOOoooo Never.
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. I said that if in that apartment there was going to be curtains etc to make her fell cozy I'd need my 'painting'. I won
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Normally I'm flexible.
 
We have a deal--she doesn't mess with the boy stuff and I don't mess with the girl stuff. I have just as hard a time understanding a hand painted 100 year old china egg as she has with a Centofante folder. Just never let them know what these things cost. I know would freak out if I know the cost of some of those damn eggs.
 
Mine's pretty good about it. She thinks I'm a little strange, but she doesn't ask how much they cost, and doesn't complain when a new one shows up on the doorstep.

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Dave

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of More Knives
 
She says all my knives look alike! Go figure .... course this is a good thing, I can buy knives without her even questioning their costs, because she down right just doesn't care about them! It's my kids I have to worry about
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Mark
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" Knife Collectors Are Sharp People "
 
Maybe I don't qualify to answer this because I'm only engaged. ;-)
But once when my fiance and her sister were taking a package camping tour of Turkey, I went out and bought her a SAK Spartan for the trip. I thought it was a nice gesture, and so did she. So the night before they were to leave, I was helping her pack. Rearranging her things in the pack, I noticed she had stowed the manual can-opener from the kitchen drawer. I asked why she would be lugging about that bulky thing when she had the SAK I'd given her. "Oh, I'm afraid of sharp things," she told me, "I always think I'm going to cut off my finger." So I asked her why bring the SAK AT ALL? She said because I gave it to her. Oh, and she might need the tweezers.
Sigh.
Actually, for a blade-phobic, she's remarkable tolerant of my collecting and carry habits. I guess I'M her SAK!
 
I had probably the greatest night of my life last night. First of all I am poor as dirt so its kind of a moot point, but...my wife is always borrowing my knives to do this or that and asking me to open this or that, or she wants to carry one to feel safer or something. SO anyway, last night she uttered the most beautiful words in the english language..."I think I need a knife of my own". Now, this may not seem like much at first blush, but this opens up the doors for me...when I actually have some money...to buy knives, you know so she'll have a selection to carry!
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Up untill now, she has been totally disinterested.

The only thing now is I am infected with the knife making bug...something new for her to complain about me buying.
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Jared


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Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me?

I hope that after I die, people will say of me: "That guy sure owed me a lot of money."

[This message has been edited by Flesh Gordon (edited 03-03-2000).]
 
My wife definitely falls into the "Sheeple" categorie. Although she wants to be interested in what I do (LEO) she doesn't like the tools of the trade. This allows us to "have our own interests". She does try though. She got me a Benchmade 910 for christmas, even though she didn't want to look at it. She (and the Stryker) are great.
 
At this point, it's more knifemaking tools than knives.
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It would be easy enough to slip a knife by, but try doing that with a 200 lb. bandsaw! Especially when it's going in the bedroom!

I just try to make sure that I sell a bunch of knives whenever I get a new acquisition, whether it be a tool or an expensive knife, so that the net impact isn't too great. That, and I don't wince (at least not in front of her) when I look at the bank statement and see that she spends a couple hundred bucks a month on haircuts and manicures!

Ryan




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For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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I like my husbands knives.
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My list of knives is short but is growing.
I have a MOD Lady Hawk, BM Leopard (purple)and a custom knife on order from Newt Livesay.
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For Valentines I received a Spyderco Mini Police Necklace, a huge stuffed Eeyore and a few other things (He spoils me!!).

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[This message has been edited by Mrs. 4th (edited 03-03-2000).]
 
Hello Mrs 4th! My, that's a lovely knife your wearing. The 4th is a Swell guy, and we sure like talking about knives with him and having some good clean fun with him here at the Forums. Please, don't ever let my wife know that there are other wives here, that would not be a Good Thing!
 
Until last Christmas, my wife barely tolerated my knife collecting. She would say "How many knives do you need blah blah blah...".

SO, Christmas 1999 her mother gives her "Precious Moments Collection" figurines, and I think (but didn't say) "How worthless!".

Then, my wife says "Great. I can collect one every year at Christmas, and maybe even my birthday!". She looks at me and says "Now I understand about you collecting knives"!!!!!

COOL! Way to go, mother-in-law!

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Alan L. Burnham
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My wife is the best.. She shoots with me, somethimes without me but she does understand. For Christmas she purchased a Brend SOCOM set for me!! Could not want anything better than what I have. My friend!
 
As long as I keep the yard and take out the trash, she couldn't care less. She's into clothes, I think I have the better deal.

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Brandon

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"You should never never doubt what nobody is sure about..."
 
My wife and I live real cheap. Virtually everything we wear comes from Goodwill, we drive 10 year old used cars. Our idea of sport is dumpster diving. What we do with our savings is pay for the house in the forest and buy stock for our retirement fund. I told my wife about my last purchase in an email where I told her that our stock had been going up $5,000 a day this week. She said "way cool".

Of course the knife I got was only $63.50 (a Greco Little Companion made from A2 alloy, 15% off list price).
 
guess i am lucky...my wife enjoys knives
as much as i do...she never questions my
purchases...she even surprises me with
a knife that she purchases...she knows
more about knives than most women...
 
My wife has her collections(lately it has been Cameo rings and pins) and I have mine. We both understand the others addiction.
Eric

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Outside of a dog, a Knife is man's best friend. Inside a dog it is very, very Dark.
 
Mine is also a saint. She puts up with me and my spending. All my hobies are expensive, guns, knives, fishing, etc. The only grief she gives me and my son for that matter, is that she is afraid when we handle the knives that we will get cut. Imagine that! She really wasn't too happy to spend three hours in the emergency room two weeks ago when my Ascent and my left index finger got a little too friendly. Eight stitches later and a few I told to so's and all is better now. She just gives us that look, when the knives come out to play!

John
 
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