Just cook your own food for a few months and you develop enough knife skills to never look back. I don't even have fancy knives--ever--I buy the $3 knives from

Just cook your own food for a few months and you develop enough knife skills to never look back. I don't even have fancy knives--ever--I buy the $3 knives from the Asian grocery store. They dull after a few months, and sometimes I sharpen, sometimes I toss.