There should be no "rules" in knife collecting! It does sound like your wife might have a trick up her sleeve, keep us posted...........

Interesting. I've just come to the rule that I have to REALLY want something to buy it. Not just "sort of interesting and I'd like to hold/play around with it sometime".

I've found that when I only go for stuff that I really want very badly I really do limit my purchases and am building up a collection in which I really love each and every piece.

A wife with a trick up her sleeve?  Say it isnt so

No, no, no.......there's no rules in knife collecting! I'm having a nervous breakdown just reading about rules!

"A wife with a trick up her sleeve?  Say it isnt so"         LOL!!!

I try to spend more time looking and educating my self on the knife I want to buy, than really buying.

     Guy's I was married for 42 years and I only won, one disagreement. Now, I can't remember, what it was about.  If, I get to Heaven, I'm gonna find out. I might have lost that one too.........I figure, it's a man's world, run by "Women"....lol

Honestly guys before I became a "collector" I always figured there were worse thing he could be doing.  As long as we can pay the bills...by a knife, honey

You know when someone asks her about my collection she always tells them. At least he's not in a bar !!!

Yes, there is a lot worse things a person can do than collect knives.  I have always said this , and a person that buys a $10 or $100 or $1000 knife, it all about the enjoyment not the price. Please, forgive me, if I'm preaching..........................lol

Well said, Ivars. Good buddy!

I have just ONE rule; do whatever Cass tells me. Well, it's her rule, but.....

Rules?? Seriously? My dear wife has never said a thing about my knives. If I want to buy 30 of one patter, so be it. If I want to buy and expensive knife (GEE that would be a treat) I can do so. My knives are rapidly taking over our guest room  AKA the Cutlrery Cave but that's OK by her. I sometimes have knives on towels on the dining room table that I'm cleaning that I picked up at a yard sale and that's OK with her too as long as the table is cleared and all my toys are put away in time for the kids to come over for dinner.

But this is a great give and take situation. You see, my wife loves to quilt. I take her to Amish country to buy special pattern cloth. I take her to the fabric stores and tell her to take her time. I always bring a couple of knife catalogs and sit in the car and patiently wait for her. She sometimes has the dining room table set up to cut fabic and layout patterns. Fabric and QIP (quilts in progress) are stacked in the dining room and I also built her a sewing room after our son moved out. (LESSON, when a kid moves out, IMMEDIATELY convert their old room into something else without a bed. This discourages any returns.) Therefore, she has her quilts and sewing and I have my knives. We each have our own rooms and share a common area, at least until meal time. We have never had a disagreement over hobby or space. Am I the luckiest gut around town or what??! Rules? If you have them in your household and it works for you, then by all means go for it. However, be careful when they say "sure thing, honey" and look at you with that certain ominous stare.

LOL... i have heard it all... from "hey when you send the knives incude a note that they were all GIFT knives because my wife opens all my packages and checks them.{DIVORCED}

  this as just to much... i knew a guy that collected knives all year round...but had them sent almost always to his brothers house... then his brother would pack them up in what looked like some old clothes once about every 3-4 months... all just to lie to his wife...IMAGINE THE MONEY BEING WASTED ON THE SHIPPING ALONE!{again ,divorced now} ... im about where CHUCK is..although i am going through the big D myelf..it didnt have to do with money or knives.

i remember when i would go to my knife meets and i one time actually brought a awesome box my wife bought me with different levels and compartments perfect for carrying knives... no one cared about the knives in the box... they were all busy ohhhing and ahhhing over the fact that my wife bought me anything that had to do with knives.
i mean they were in SHOCK.. must have talked 20 minutes about just the fact that my wife gave me a knife related anything.it  floored these guys..some of the guys are on this club just not active.LOL!

Luckily, Cass likes knives almost as much as me! And unfortunately my "defined range of knives" is "does it have a blade or blades"! LOL!

I'm like you Steve. I AM on a budget, though at times it probably doesn't seem like it. We had a bit of a wind fall the past couple of months so we treated ourselves. Otherwise I get a portion of my Social Security as an allowance. And of course I spend it on knives.

And I'm like you Ron, I don't drink, smoke, or gamble. Shoot, I don't even have a cell phone plan......'cause I don't have a cell phone! LOL!

My wife and I have an understanding --  If I don't complain about the cost of her tattoos, she won't complain about my knives.