The one that bugs me most is not a kitchen knife, but an Iwasaki kiridashi being sold on BST at an extremely good price. Iwasaki makes my favorite razors on the planet. I have (clears throat) several of them, and I love everything about them. I even love buying "used up" ones and using files and sandpaper to shape them and give them a second life. I am not really a collector, but if I were going to collect anything, just for the joy of having it and being able to handle and look at it any time I wanted, it would be something made by Iwasaki.
I go through cheap, miserly phases, which is probably a good thing for my solvency. I was in one when this Iwasaki kiridashi came up for sale, for a mind-bendingly good price.
You're not a collector, I told myself.
You don't need a kiridashi, I told myself.
If you spend the money, you will regret it, I told myself.
So I didn't spend the money. And boy do I regret it.