Anyone Given Up On PAD for TAD?

[diamondback]

Personally, I’ve around 20 briars and an army of cobs.
I still drool over some pipes I want, but given the... uncertainty... of late, I’m in full-blown TAD. Pockets turned out empty and a wife who doesn’t understand for the life of her (bless her) why I need to keep my focus to stocking ‘baccy. My Lat needs are met, so I need more VA, VA/Per, and Burley. To her it’s all the same “You’ve got a mountain of tobacco in mason jars in your closet,” etc.
Well, anyway, no more PAD for me.
Just TAD, pipe cleaners, and butane.

 

[aro222]

Nowadays it’s all about the TAD

I still toss in a pipe every now and than but I’ve seriously slowed down since I learned what was happening with tobacco as of late. My cellar is still considered very small but it’s growing every couple of weeks.

 

[xingpao]

I have much stronger TAD than PAD. Probably bought my last pipe for a while.

 

[diamondback]

Don’t forget those pipe cleaners my friends!
/cheers

 

[5star]

Yep,I mainly buy baccy now. I've got plenty of pipes already.

 

[olkofri]

Don't forget this either:

 

[didimauw]

I've given up PAD, and TAD.
Wait no I haven't.
Wait, yes I have.
It depends on the day.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

My focus has been on tobacco since I got back into pipe smoking. Tobacco is a consumable, pipes are not.

 

[tennsmoker]

Giving up PAD and TAD!

Really?

Not on my watch. I recently purchased two pipes from the same B&M.

Count 'em, one and two. That's because both of them spoke to my heart.

And, no, I have certainly not given up on TAD! For goodness sakes, you gotta keep purchasing tobacco to go with your new pipes.

Am I right?

 

[3rdguy]

TAD all the way.

 

[bassbug]

Never had either, so no need to give up.
I have 6 briar pipes that cover my tastes in style and chamber size that will last me the rest of my life and then some. I own one meerschaum pipe just because I think every pipe smoker should have one.
At the rate I smoke, the cost of tobacco is not significant enough to warrant hoarding and the tobaccos I like have been around quite a while so no immediate risk of losing availability.
To me, pipe smoking is not a hobby, so I never understood the allure of collecting pipes or tobacco, but if thst's your thing, carry on.

 

[mso489]

It's unlikely I've bought my last pipe if I have a good lifespan, but these days, I certainly spend more time window shopping blends, even though my rate of consumption is pretty glacial compared to many Forums members. Even pipes that delight me on sight usually remind me of something the same shape or general profile of pipes I already own, in my "home pipe shop." I have literally dozens of excellent interesting blends yet unopened, but when the restless shopping instinct strikes, it's more the leaf than the briar that draws my attention.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I've temporarily stepped out of retirement to bolster the wife's cellar and to put up a little more Latakia.

 

[didimauw]

The....wife's....cellar?

 

[seanv]

Focusing more on tad but I have bought three pipes in the last month or so.....

 

[Chasing Embers]

The....wife's....cellar?

Yep. She's been pilfering mine so I'm making sure she's well stocked.

 

[weezell]

TAD for me. I'm hoping to retire in the next year or so and things will tighten up considerably...

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I like that wife thing. I think I need to get some pipes and cellar some tobacco for her ... just in case she decides to take up pipe smoking sometime in the future.

 

[eaglewriter1]

I am currently in the process of thinning out my Pipe Collection but only to then invest the money gained into PAD and propably some TAD^^ So no End in sigth here. And as far as tobacco is concerned: I have a rather large plot of sunny land behind the house. Would hold enough tobacco for years if I decided to grow my own and I already experimented with liquor and tobacco creating some aromatics of my own. ( Off-Topic: Get your hands on some white chocolate liquor, thin it with some water and spray it on some burley its great)

 

[marc75]

I've been holding off for the last few weeks. I'll be going to the Raleigh show and hope to pick up a few pipes and some tobacco's.