Starting A New Year

I hear you , tried to explain to SWMBO that I needed to start a cellar this year. She doesn't get it!

piperl12:
Just show her eBay. Of course, it very much depends on how desirable a particular blend is, but the prices for aged tins are all going up. Maybe a few dollars. Maybe much more. A tin of Penzance that I paid $9 for in 2005 just sold for $65 on eBay. All of the Esoterica blends are selling very much higher than retail -- and these are blends that are still in production! Never mind the Pease Syrians and the other discontinued blends.
But if "tobacco is an investment" doesn't sway her, I think it's reasonable to assume tobacco will never be any cheaper than it is right now. And because it's an agricultural product that ebbs and flows like any other agricultural product -- at the mercy of climate conditions, political upheavals, etc. -- there's no guarantee that the blends available today will still be available next year or five years from now. Having a cellar helps to ensure that some of the blends you love will still be available to you in the future. And, like wine, many of them are likely to improve (perhaps dramatically) if aged for 3-5 years.
This is my thinking, anyway. I don't have the biggest cellar here (by a long shot!), but I do have a solid collection that will see me through at least the next 15-20 years.
Bob