I have found another therapy to avoid buying knives: work on those I have even if they don't really need it. As long as I have a knife project going, I'm not even browsing knives in a day sometimes. It's just that I'm getting to the end of that too. I need more knives to have projects with them and not buy others...
Goddamit!
Sounds like an argument for practicing mirror- or kasumi-polishes. But for a more practical matter, wouldn't you be better off choosing a good EDC ulu since you had some threads some ways back about having trouble opening boxes?