Who carries a utility (box) knife?

[brickeyee]

Stanley Hand Tools 10-499 Retractable Blade Quick-Change.
There are three or four scattered around my shop.
Handle holds at least four blades.
Push the blade all they way forward and hold down the yellow button.
Blade releases and is easily revered to the other end or replaced with a new blade fro the handle.
And just over $6 each.

 

[Sovblocgunfan]

I have several box cutters all over the house. I most often am found with a red-handled Husky like that one in post #5.

 

[John Joseph]

I definitely carry one on St Patrick's Day.
I help cook close to 500 lbs of corned beef at a fund raiser and that's a lot of packages of corned beef to open!
Pink slime will make a real mess out of a pocket knife, I learned.

 

[tactikel]

+1on the screwpop. On my key ring for 2+ years. It has cut countless boxes, security straps, letters. When it gets dull reverse the blade, then replace.

 

[KevininPa]

I do not trust or carry those evil items! I've carried and sharpened pocket knives since I was ten. Even worked in an old school butcher shop in my teens. My knives are are as sharp as razors. The only thing I usually manage to cut with a work razor is.......my hands! Thus my chagrin.

 

[DrDeFab]

These: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JRNAQ2W
I find them superior to my Gerber in comfort, weight, ease of use (no screw to lose), sturdiness of liner lock, and price.
I use them constantly for things I don't want to inflict on my nice knives.

 

[danez71]

These: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JRNAQ2W
I find them superior to my Gerber in comfort, weight, ease of use (no screw to lose), sturdiness of liner lock, and price.
I use them constantly for things I don't want to inflict on my nice knives.

Do you see those is stores?

Kinda interested....

 

[CapnMac]

Classic Stanley is in the pouch on my carpentry belt, have one of the folding ones that use the same blade on the electrician's bucket (my Klein gimmie walked away <grrr>)
Most of my tool boxes have the disposable flat-style box cutters.
Around the house, it's a multi-toool more often than not, though.

 

[DrDeFab]

Do you see those in stores?

Kinda interested....

I've only seen them online.

 

[W.E.G.]

I have a dozen or so box cutters.

Usually can't find one when I need it. Then sometimes I open a drawer, or knock something over. And there they are. All huddled together being lazy and shiftless.

On account of the box cutters always be hiding, I have a couple cheap switchblades that I just keep clipped to the pocket of my two pair of jeans. I wash a pair of jeans when the get too smelly. Or maybe just when my sinuses clear from time to time, and I notice the odor. The switchblades get washed sometimes. I can hear it when it gets into the dryer. Motivates me to fetch it out and clean it up proper. When it gets gunked up, its way more hassle to open than the box cutter. I should probably just start carrying a box cutter instead. Probably wouldn't be able to find my jeans if I started doing that.

 

[Wyo82]

I carry one every day. Only time I carry a regular pocket knife is if I have my “go to town / nice “ clothes on. I’ve used the Milwaukee fastback knives for the last 5 years, just picked this one up last year - it has a folding screwdriver on it. Phillips/flat and quarter inch nut driver on a knife. Super handy, use it all the time at work ( I’m an electrician).

 

[Zaydok Allen]

I've never had the need to be honest. In my day to day life I keep two knives on hand, a good folder in my pocket, and a total beater that is kept sharp enough for anything it'll get used on.

 

[theotherwaldo]

My city had its dine-in holiday celebration yesterday.
Part of the celebration is a lottery for distributing random gifts.
My gifts were a set of slip-joint pliers, a tape measure, a $50 bill, some fancy pens - and a folding box cutter.
I may have to start carrying it... .

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

My gifts were a set of slip-joint pliers, a tape measure, a $50 bill, some fancy pens - and a folding box cutter.
I may have to start carrying it... .

That's a nice haul.

 

[rust collector]

My city had its dine-in holiday celebration yesterday.
Part of the celebration is a lottery for distributing random gifts.
My gifts were a set of slip-joint pliers, a tape measure, a $50 bill, some fancy pens - and a folding box cutter.
I may have to start carrying it... .

Those are some great gifts. Someone did an excellent job of purchasing, and fortune smiled upon you.
Some years ago I stumbled upon a Lowe's sale and bought 5,000 Stanley utility knife blades for something like $20. The small packs of 20 have been perfect stocking stuffers and small gifts to friends and family, because for some reason the blades in utility knives are invariably worn and dull.

 

[Keyfer 55]

Had a utility knife in my pocket for the last
20 yrs.

 

[Rubone]

I've carried them for work for the last 30 years or so, and now in retirement I find I still do. I've carried all the standard to fancy types and find them handier than a pocket knife. Good surgical tools too! My dogs could hear me coming from the clink of the spare blades...

 

[tactikel]

+1 on the Screwpoptool. It is so light, practical, economical. I’ve carried a pocket knife daily since 3rd grade ( times were different back then). It’s been on my key fob for 2 years. Great product!
It’s opened countless boxes, cut hundreds of security straps; going thru TSA, launch the blade and pick up blades at your destination!