Pipe Collection Succession Planning
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I don’t have nearly the collection of valuable pipes that many on this forum have, but...
Considering I’m only 31, I’m sure my wife would be absolutely devastated if I passed anytime soon and would just want the pipes out of the house as quickly as possible, as the sight of them would tear her apart. She’d likely give them away or throw them in the bin. The total value of my pipes can’t exceed $1000 so I don’t care much about what she decides to do with them. It would hardly be worth the effort to resell them.
Considering I’m only 31, I’m sure my wife would be absolutely devastated if I passed anytime soon and would just want the pipes out of the house as quickly as possible, as the sight of them would tear her apart. She’d likely give them away or throw them in the bin. The total value of my pipes can’t exceed $1000 so I don’t care much about what she decides to do with them. It would hardly be worth the effort to resell them.
I dunno what’s worse, the thought of Sutliff’s equipment torched for scrap, or your meers in a landfill…but I respects a man’s choices.
They were just pipes.I still have a couple of meerschaum Falcon bowls. I sent the Weavers to Bruce's daughter.
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Yeah I sent those to his daughter. My pipe days are coming to a conclusion.
That was a nice thing to do.
There might be about 50 pipes on my property at a guess. The kids might pick a favourite I guess, if I go before @Ahi Ka then he will probably come and scoop up the rest (he can try and guess which stem I used to lever out belly button fluff).
I had to face this question last summer after my wife passed away.
I had thought to outline what I wanted done with my possessions including the pipes and tobacco but my lawyer convinced me to just leave the final decisions to my executor as once I'm gone I will have no way of knowing if my wishes are carried out. (I'm not so rich that I need to specify who gets what.)
That being said, he did say I could write a letter stating what I would like to have done. Like all my camera equipment going to the daughter who has a degree in photography.
It also helps that both of my sons are pipe smokers and one of my grandsons is occasionally enjoying a pipe or cigar. (The other two oldest grandsons are also occasional cigar smokers.)
My "instructions" are that my two daughters, four granddaughters all be given the option to take a pipe as a keepsake if they want one. The rest of my pipes can then be divided between my two sons and five grandsons. I also have a document identifying each pipe and their value and which ones I have an emotional attachment to. (These are mainly pipes my wife bought me as gifts.)
My sons will divide any pipe tobacco I have left between them.
I had thought to outline what I wanted done with my possessions including the pipes and tobacco but my lawyer convinced me to just leave the final decisions to my executor as once I'm gone I will have no way of knowing if my wishes are carried out. (I'm not so rich that I need to specify who gets what.)
That being said, he did say I could write a letter stating what I would like to have done. Like all my camera equipment going to the daughter who has a degree in photography.
It also helps that both of my sons are pipe smokers and one of my grandsons is occasionally enjoying a pipe or cigar. (The other two oldest grandsons are also occasional cigar smokers.)
My "instructions" are that my two daughters, four granddaughters all be given the option to take a pipe as a keepsake if they want one. The rest of my pipes can then be divided between my two sons and five grandsons. I also have a document identifying each pipe and their value and which ones I have an emotional attachment to. (These are mainly pipes my wife bought me as gifts.)
My sons will divide any pipe tobacco I have left between them.
I'm being cremated but I have asked that a pipe, some pipe tobacco and a shot of rum be added to my urn.
More importantly, my two sons know I would like them to occasionally have a pipe when they visit my wife and I at the cemetery. I'm also not opposed to him pouring an occasional shot of rum on me either.
I’m hoping it’s only a short stay in purgatory before moving upstairs.
Those were the ones I was most worried about going to the dump. Glad to know they went to her.
To quote Billy Joel, “better to laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints”
Remind me never to borrow a pipe from you again
Though doctors have given me an expiration date, nothing so sinister. I've just gotten to a point that I derive more enjoyment from other forms of tobacco use than I do pipe smoking.
You and I are both a hell of a lot closer to the end than the beginning. Knowing how close is both a comfort and, at times, a distraction. I find myself more often with a cigar in my mouth than a pipe lately. Tastes and desires change.
I can't even express how true that statement is. I find peace in knowing.
