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Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 5:56 am
by fishin1635
I’ve cut my spending on knives and alcohol way back. No purchase this year thus far. I have one on order from Frank in northfield covers but that’s the only one on my radar so far. I used to try and buy a GEC every time a new pattern came out and spend hours trying to hunt one down in every cover and if I couldn’t find one from a dealer I’d spend hours on Facebook groups or I’d give-in and spend top dollar just to have. The economy has takin it’s toll on my savings but not on my health or well being. My cousins gave me some Mad Dog 20/20 once before I was of age and I still remember the mess I made with puke ::mdm:: and the discuss ::tear:: my aunt had in her eyes. ::td::

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:30 pm
by Madmarco
Hey fishin', why the link to the Dog's profile? ::shrug:: 8)

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:44 pm
by Samb
Don't look like I'll be buying much till spring. Gas bill is $152 this month. Thanks Joe.

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:02 pm
by Madmarco
Yikes! That's worse than up here Sam, where it's ALWAYS cold. 8)

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:42 pm
by Samb
I though it was bad last month but here in Indiana we've had some warm temperatures for this time of the year. Won't be buying any more knives till spring, I hate winter.

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:22 pm
by GSPTOPDOG
Madmarco wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:30 pm Hey fishin', why the link to the Dog's profile? ::shrug:: 8)
::hmm:: Have I been "Doxxed"... ::skeptic:: ::paranoid:: I don't even know what that means... ::shrug:: ::paranoid::

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:30 pm
by GSPTOPDOG
fishin1635 wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 5:56 am I’ve cut my spending on knives and alcohol way back. No purchase this year thus far.... My cousins gave me some Mad Dog 20/20 once before I was of age and I still remember the mess I made with puke ::mdm:: and the discuss ::tear:: my aunt had in her eyes. ::td::

The Mad Dog 20/20 may be tough going down ::mdm:: the hatch ... ::paranoid:: but I just look at the $$$ 💰💰💰 saved as someday that money becoming a new GEC... IF I can ever find one NOT way above MSRP :x ::disgust:: :x

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:42 pm
by fishin1635
Madmarco wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:30 pm Hey fishin', why the link to the Dog's profile? ::shrug:: 8)
The link was meant to be quote... to your first post on this thread ::doh::

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:44 pm
by GSPTOPDOG
Madmarco wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:15 am I don't know how many off-hand, but my knife purchases seem about the same as they always were. You certainly like your Crown Royal, don'tcha Dog! Shows you have good taste! 8)
M.M. I have found some of the best things in life come out of "The Great White North" (oops! :oops: can I still say "Great White" ::paranoid:: ) Besides the Crown Royal... ::hmm:: One of my favorite axes is an "Ardex" made in Toronto I belive... ::hmm::

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:45 pm
by fishin1635
GSPTOPDOG wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:22 pm
Madmarco wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:30 pm Hey fishin', why the link to the Dog's profile? ::shrug:: 8)
::hmm:: Have I been "Doxxed"... ::skeptic:: ::paranoid:: I don't even know what that means... ::shrug:: ::paranoid::

Sorry, the link was meant to be a reply/quote to your post in the thread ::doh:: I'll try to remove the link :D

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:50 pm
by GSPTOPDOG
fishin1635 wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:45 pm
GSPTOPDOG wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:22 pm
Madmarco wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:30 pm Hey fishin', why the link to the Dog's profile? ::shrug:: 8)
::hmm:: Have I been "Doxxed"... ::skeptic:: ::paranoid:: I don't even know what that means... ::shrug:: ::paranoid::

Sorry, the link was meant to be a reply/quote to your post in the thread ::doh:: I'll try to remove the link :D
:wink: No worries mate, the Gov't already knows everything 'bout me already... :x ... Did you ever read a book in high school by some guy named George Orwell? It turns out the US Gov't thinks of that book as instruction manual... NOT as a warning to a free society ... :x

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:20 pm
by fishin1635
GSPTOPDOG wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:50 pm
fishin1635 wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:45 pm
GSPTOPDOG wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:22 pm

::hmm:: Have I been "Doxxed"... ::skeptic:: ::paranoid:: I don't even know what that means... ::shrug:: ::paranoid::

Sorry, the link was meant to be a reply/quote to your post in the thread ::doh:: I'll try to remove the link :D
:wink: No worries mate, the Gov't already knows everything 'bout me already... :x ... Did you ever read a book in high school by some guy named George Orwell? It turns out the US Gov't thinks of that book as instruction manual... NOT as a warning to a free society ... :x
Is there such thing as an "ordinary life" ::shrug::

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:30 pm
by Madmarco
Samb wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:42 pm I though it was bad last month but here in Indiana we've had some warm temperatures for this time of the year. Won't be buying any more knives till spring, I hate winter.
You and me both brother! 8)

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:40 pm
by Madmarco
fishin1635 wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:42 pm
Madmarco wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:30 pm Hey fishin', why the link to the Dog's profile? ::shrug:: 8)
The link was meant to be quote... to your first post on this thread ::doh::
I get it man, no problem! ::handshake:: As I was wondering what it meant, ::hmm:: it did cross my mind that was what you'd meant, ::idea:: but the way it was inserted is what threw me. ::shrug:: You did remove it successfully, ::tu:: although it really wasn't necessary now that we know what was intended. 8)

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:21 pm
by Madmarco
GSPTOPDOG wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:44 pm
Madmarco wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:15 am I don't know how many off-hand, but my knife purchases seem about the same as they always were. You certainly like your Crown Royal, don'tcha Dog! Shows you have good taste! 8)
M.M. I have found some of the best things in life come out of "The Great White North" (oops! :oops: can I still say "Great White" ::paranoid:: ) Besides the Crown Royal... ::hmm:: One of my favorite axes is an "Ardex" made in Toronto I belive... ::hmm::
As far as I'm concerned you can still say "Great White", cuz only the folks south of the Equator wouldn't know it refers to snow, not skin color! They make Grohmann knives in Nova Scotia/Canada also, but you forgot the most important contribution "TGWN" has made to the world, ME! lol! 8)

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:24 pm
by Madmarco
fishin1635 wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:20 pm
GSPTOPDOG wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:50 pm
fishin1635 wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:45 pm

Sorry, the link was meant to be a reply/quote to your post in the thread ::doh:: I'll try to remove the link :D
:wink: No worries mate, the Gov't already knows everything 'bout me already... :x ... Did you ever read a book in high school by some guy named George Orwell? It turns out the US Gov't thinks of that book as instruction manual... NOT as a warning to a free society ... :x
Is there such thing as an "ordinary life" ::shrug::
No such thing my friend, not in this psychotic day and age! ::facepalm:: 8)

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 12:51 am
by Samb
Lot of truth to that! Anymore I don't know what ordinary is, sure ain't our president. ::dang::

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 2:11 am
by Oledadsknives
Samb wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:42 pm I though it was bad last month but here in Indiana we've had some warm temperatures for this time of the year. Won't be buying any more knives till spring, I hate winter.
Samb, I know what you mean about the winters there. I lived in Merrillville IN. Till 1981 and said to hell with this cold weather and moved to AL.

Jimbo

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 5:58 am
by Shearer
Madmarco wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:21 pm
GSPTOPDOG wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:44 pm
Madmarco wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:15 am I don't know how many off-hand, but my knife purchases seem about the same as they always were. You certainly like your Crown Royal, don'tcha Dog! Shows you have good taste! 8)
M.M. I have found some of the best things in life come out of "The Great White North" (oops! :oops: can I still say "Great White" ::paranoid:: ) Besides the Crown Royal... ::hmm:: One of my favorite axes is an "Ardex" made in Toronto I belive... ::hmm::
As far as I'm concerned you can still say "Great White", cuz only the folks south of the Equator wouldn't know it refers to snow, not skin color! They make Grohmann knives in Nova Scotia/Canada also, but you forgot the most important contribution "TGWN" has made to the world, ME! lol! 8)
When you say Great White here in Australia we think shark. When we go to the ocean for a swim we think Great White but we spend more time look at white pointers.

Grant

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:11 am
by cudgee
Shearer wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 5:58 am
Madmarco wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:21 pm
GSPTOPDOG wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:44 pm

M.M. I have found some of the best things in life come out of "The Great White North" (oops! :oops: can I still say "Great White" ::paranoid:: ) Besides the Crown Royal... ::hmm:: One of my favorite axes is an "Ardex" made in Toronto I belive... ::hmm::
As far as I'm concerned you can still say "Great White", cuz only the folks south of the Equator wouldn't know it refers to snow, not skin color! They make Grohmann knives in Nova Scotia/Canada also, but you forgot the most important contribution "TGWN" has made to the world, ME! lol! 8)
When you say Great White here in Australia we think shark. When we go to the ocean for a swim we think Great White but we spend more time look at white pointers.

Grant
Nothing like good White Pointers. ::facepalm:: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:21 am
by Colonel26
TPK wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:01 am My knife purchases has almost come to a grinding halt. Almost. Still have my eyes open :shock: for good buys but those are hard to come by these days. Feels like I'm the only Knife-Knut around here who has cut back on spending. ::shrug::

Gotta get ready for work now. ::facepalm::

TCGB ::handshake::
No sir Tom, you aren’t the only one. I can count on one hand the knives I’ve bought in the last year or so. I did trade for a couple of cheap ones the other day, and I have done some selling and trading up on some firearms, but mostly my wheeling and dealing has come to a halt.

I was at a gun and knife show a couple of weekends ago and the knife prices were insane. Things I used to be able to pick up in the $30 to $70 range were $125 and up. And the top shelf stuff made my nose bleed it was so high.

I’m guess I’ll just dane with the one I brung for a while.

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:46 pm
by TPK
::tu:: :D

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 6:55 pm
by GSPTOPDOG
Madmarco wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:21 pm
GSPTOPDOG wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:44 pm
Madmarco wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:15 am I don't know how many off-hand, but my knife purchases seem about the same as they always were. You certainly like your Crown Royal, don'tcha Dog! Shows you have good taste! 8)
As far as I'm concerned you can still say "Great White", cuz only the folks south of the Equator wouldn't know it refers to snow, not skin color! They make Grohmann knives in Nova Scotia/Canada also, but you forgot the most important contribution "TGWN" has made to the world, ME! lol! 8)
Opps! :oops: I can't believe I overlooked that! ::dang:: ... ::hmm:: I was thinking the most important contribution "TGWN" has made to the world was*... ::hmm::

(*please see attached photos)

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 6:57 pm
by GSPTOPDOG
fishin1635 wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:20 pm
GSPTOPDOG wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:50 pm
fishin1635 wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:45 pm

Sorry, the link was meant to be a reply/quote to your post in the thread ::doh:: I'll try to remove the link :D
:wink: No worries mate, the Gov't already knows everything 'bout me already... :x ... Did you ever read a book in high school by some guy named George Orwell? It turns out the US Gov't thinks of that book as instruction manual... NOT as a warning to a free society ... :x
Is there such thing as an "ordinary life" ::shrug::

Well, ::hmm:: I reckon not nowadays... I have to agree with 'Ol Mark on that one... ::hmm::

Re: UPDATE: 2023, How is the current economy affecting your knife buying?

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 7:06 pm
by GSPTOPDOG
Colonel26 wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:21 am I was at a gun and knife show a couple of weekends ago and the knife prices were insane. Things I used to be able to pick up in the $30 to $70 range were $125 and up. And the top shelf stuff made my nose bleed it was so high.
Colonel, you done spoke the truth for how it is around here! ::facepalm:: I don't even go to the shows anymore it just makes me ... :x ::disgust:: :x
I know prices go up... but "Come on man!" (To quote a "real genius"). Everybody selling can't stop talking 'bout how much one "just like the one" on their table just sold for on "Gun broker " :x So they want the same price!