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I use Krazy Glue. Or a little JB Weld.

i can't remember the last time i had a cut. i usually just hold it til it stops bleeding and not do anything to it. 

Well, I'm an expert on this seeing as I've cut myself open more than the emerg workers at the hospital care to remember... seeing as they stopped asking for my name at one point, and would just type it in the computer as I walked in the door.

Last time I cut myself open really good, it was probably about 3 inches long, and a quarter inch wide... quite a split. I walked home (1.5 hours) before realizing how bad it was (I'm a badass who can stand pain like nothing you've see, or something like that)... oh man, it was horrible, but I didn't want to have to go all the way to the hospital! That would take forever.

So I got out some ice and froze my knee, then cleaned it out completly by hand, then used some tape (with no sticky part on the cut, duh) and used that to keep the skin close enough to heel... in reality it needed stiches... I'd say 8 approx, but I didn't have a needle/thread around... I kept my knee straight for hours and made sure I wasn't dripping blood everywhere.

I couldn't walk properly for over a week (due to my knee not being able to bend fully without splitting), but it fixed itself, and I got yet another scare to show off. I also put on some of that healing stuff, polysporin or whatever the non-name brand is. That helped quite a bit.

Usually the best thing for a cut, in no particular order, is:
a) stopping the bleeding
b) keeping the skin close together (in the even it really needs stiches)
c) that special ointment, or any is good
d) air, oxygen! Let it breath! Keeping it covered delays the process, only use a band-aid when needed.

Now for pain, I say suck it up... 95% of the time. Why? That way you build a tolerance to the pain, but if you must (say you don't want to go home yet before getting stiches after getting a g-t snow racer brake stabbed into your knee for 6 stiches), freeze it. Go walk up to that snow bank and stick your knee in there for 30 sec - 1min until it's numb, then go back and have some more fun... just don't forget to actually go to the hospital when you are done if you can't keep it shut at home.

Krazy glue for sure. Liquid Bandaid is like 9 bucks for a little bitty dropper. Krazy glue is 99 cents for 10 times as much. Smells like the same stuff to me. It sticks yer fingers together the same way too ....

The last serious wound I got had to be cauterized because there was no flesh left to  stick back together.   

The last serious wound I got had to be cauterized because there was no flesh left to  stick back together.   

Ew. Uh...thanks for sharing?

Yup.  Nothing like the smell of your own flesh burning.

I prefer elastoplast bandaid strips. They have a nice large padded area, and stick like smurf to a blanket.

First, stop the bleeding. Then, clean it with water and then some peroxide. Some Neosporin and then cover it. Do that for two days, changing the bandage out daily, if not more often. On the third day, let it air out with no bandage. Should be good after that.

I'd agree with that, but I'd clean with water then dust with Bismuth Formulaic Iodide rather than use peroxide. It's an old wive's tale that the bubbling when you apply diluted peroxide is the bugs dying; it's really the bacteria happily reducing the peroxide.

macdaddy: i had a cut like that on my arm, except not really deep, about a month ago, it healed in about a week, which was actually very very fast which was surprising. i had to wear long sleeves to school for 2 weeks after it healed tho cause it was nasty lookin

I don't use band-aids unless I happen ot have them in the house.  I usually wash it, and pat it dry and that does it.  If it's more severe than that, in my experience, then it probably needs medical attention.  But I have fashioned bandages out of miscellaneous tape and paper towels.

It depends on what I'm doing, and how I did it.

If I cut myself on some electrical work I'm doing, I've been known to just use the soldering iron to cauterize the wound.  If I'm doing car work, I just pack some dirt and motor oil into it to stop the bleeding, and then clean it later and bandage it.

If it's something really serious (like when my friend drilled through my finger), I go to the hospita..

I like to leave my wounds open. Sher, they're tough to keep clean but they make much nicer scars. All wounds will stop bleeding eventually, it just depends how much blood is in there.

I liked the options in Grapes of Wrath: cobwebs or urine.