How do you cellar on a budget. Buy in bulk and on sale when possible. If you are planning to continue smoking then buying tobacco now is cheaper than it will be in the future and could be considered an investment. If all else fails take the kids out of private school, they probably don't appreciate it anyway :lol:This is a great topic. I have not taken the project of cellaring very seriously until recently. I would be interested to know how some of you cellar on a tight budget. With three young kids in private schools, we do not have much coin for luxury purchases (and my wife would consider tobacco a luxury). Perhaps this topic deserves a separate thread.
The answer to this question isn't obvious, although the concerns of pipe & cigar smokers are not unreasonable. The sources of those concerns lie at the state and federal level. In states such as Wisconsin, residents have to pay an exorbitant excise tax on pipe tobacco (it's over 70% I think). I imagine other states will attempt to generate revenue through similar means (under the guise of 'public health' of course). At the federal level, the FDA's ever-increasing power to regulate tobacco sales--combined with the govt's desire to employ huge health-insurance surcharges on smokers via Obamacare--makes the aforementioned concerns pretty well founded (no one knows how this will affect *pipe* smokers). In short, there are many people who wish to use the power to tax as a form of behavioral coercion.how seriously is the threat of me actually having to rely on my cellar as my only source of pipe tobacco?
I am making sure that none of the blends I love will be unavailable to me when the shit hits the fan and pipe tobacco will be triple the price and mfgs go out of business.Are you guys stocking up for Doomsday or what?
You're not hijacking anything. It's a viable question, a reasonable evolution of this thread, and one of the implied questions I had when I started it.Not to hijack this thread, but how seriously is the threat of me actually having to rely on my cellar as my only source of pipe tobacco?