12 SAKS, 6 pocket knives, and 4 plier based multi tools...
Quote from: _MattGyver_ on June 12, 2018, 08:44:31 AM12 SAKS, 6 pocket knives, and 4 plier based multi tools...(Image removed from quote.)
Quote from: ReamerPunch on June 12, 2018, 12:48:29 PMQuote from: _MattGyver_ on June 12, 2018, 08:44:31 AM12 SAKS, 6 pocket knives, and 4 plier based multi tools...(Image removed from quote.)I’ve got 5 or 6 SAKs, one pocket knife, one fixed blade and 2 plier based tools.
Quote from: Don Pablo on June 12, 2018, 06:20:08 PMQuote from: ReamerPunch on June 12, 2018, 12:48:29 PMQuote from: _MattGyver_ on June 12, 2018, 08:44:31 AM12 SAKS, 6 pocket knives, and 4 plier based multi tools...(Image removed from quote.)I’ve got 5 or 6 SAKs, one pocket knife, one fixed blade and 2 plier based tools. and half of them are Pablo'ed
The act of hoarding MTs and SAKs is anesthesia for this pain. The act of reading MTO, posting here, looking at MTs and SAKs on the interweb, putting those MTs and SAKs on our Amazon wish list, buying the MT and waiting for it to arrive in our mailboxes - all of this serves to distract us from the angst. And it works. When you are waiting for a new Rebar to arrive today, you aren't thinking about your crappy job or car, or wondering where Kate Upton is. You are focused on the present.
I quit drinking a few weeks after I started collecting MTs. The stupid booze was getting in the way of acquiring more of those precious MTs and knives.
Quote from: gerleatherberman on June 13, 2018, 01:20:51 AMI quit drinking a few weeks after I started collecting MTs. The stupid booze was getting in the way of acquiring more of those precious MTs and knives. A good reason to kick an unhealthy habit
When the MT hoard hit 100+, it also started feeling unmanageable in some ways. .
I have no clue what is this madness you speak of?
Let me cast the giant spotlight of Truth on this one.Compulsive behavior, including the hoarding (uh, I mean collecting) of knives, MTs, SAKs, etc., is an exercise in pain avoidance.There is a trainwreck between our ears with which we do battle - consciously or not - on a daily basis. We are frustrated with the old car we drive, with our job at Home Depot and with the knowledge that we will never play leapfrog with Kate Upton nor walk on the moon. This creates great angst in our subconscious minds.The act of hoarding MTs and SAKs is anesthesia for this pain. The act of reading MTO, posting here, looking at MTs and SAKs on the interweb, putting those MTs and SAKs on our Amazon wish list, buying the MT and waiting for it to arrive in our mailboxes - all of this serves to distract us from the angst. And it works. When you are waiting for a new Rebar to arrive today, you aren't thinking about your crappy job or car, or wondering where Kate Upton is. You are focused on the present.After we go through this cycle, and carry the Rebar for a couple of days, that anesthesia starts to wear off and the real world creeps back in. And so we start the whole process all over. And over. And over. Do this for a few years, and you end of with a box full of dozens or maybe 100+ MTs, SAKs, lights, guns and Maxpedition bags. I own quite literally hundreds of items in these categories. This is how hoarding begins, and how it is sustained. Its a sickness. But in many respects its a fairly harmless sickness, so long as your personal finances are not affected. And knowing that it is a sickness in some small way helps you to survive it.(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)(Image removed from quote.)
Well as I dug through a shoebox of knives and multitools i realised something. I'm no longer a "user", I'm a collector. 12 SAKS, 6 pocket knives, and 4 plier based multi tools...and no hopes of rehabilitation in site. It doesn't help that MTO is basically AA for multis except we tempt each other to buy more rather than quit They say acceptance is the first step to solving the problem, but is it a problem when your multis are so useful? I've sort of got it down to a system here's how you catch MMS (Multitool Madness Syndrome)1. You carry a knife, need more tools.2.Carry a swiss army knife for a while,miss having a locking blade. You also like the allure of full sized pliers3. Buy a plier multitool4. You feel like a tool is missing, or you need more variety.(at this point there is no turning back for you, the brilliant marketers and online forums you lurk in have already trapped you in the continuing cycle)5. Continue to collect,buy, and use multitools the rest of your life. At this point you have accepted your fate and are now like an archeologist looking for the Holy Grail of multi tools which you likely will never findEnter: The mod squad