And now if a guy wearing a hockey mask invades my kitchen I have an easily-accessible weapon...

My wonderful in-laws gave me one of those magnet strips for Christmas and I finally got around to installing it.  I had one of those wood knife blocks that take up a good square foot of counter space.  Now it's replaced with this:

Nice, neat, easy to get to, and the counter is available and simple to clean.  I think I like it.

And if I'm ever stuck in a nightmare-ish horror movie, backing away from an evil murderer, groping around behind her on the kitchen counter for some sort of weapon... yeah, I have a sick mind.