Your Athame?

Cake • It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-- I got an athame for my dedication ceremony this past Imbolc, and I realize I can't do any actual magickal workings with it yet (I'm still in my year and a day), but I'd still like to use it somehow. 
-- It's just been sitting in my cupboard all this time with my other would-be alter type things. It's fully blessed and consecrated and it just seems like a waste not to use it somehow. I've always loved blades (my next athame will be a one handed sword <3), but this one isn't sharp. It's got a blunted edge. 
-- So what do you all use your athames for when you're not doing rituals and the like? I heard someone used it as a regular knife for making things in the kitchen - would it be beneficial to get it sharpened for this purpose??