How much do you cellar?
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I can't afford to build a cave a mile below my house, so I just go with a plastic bin in my closet.
This guy I've mentioned before, who I've gotten a lot of tobacco from over the last couple of years, has decided to quit pipe smoking. Seems his asthma has gotten so bad the doc told him to quit. So, this morning I got a call that went something like this: "I quit! Want to buy everything I have left?" I drove over to his house and came back home with the following.
38 new pouches of H&H
1 quart size Mason Jar of H&H
About 1,000 pipe cleaners
30 new Bic lighters.
3 new small size leather travel cases
21 pipe tools ( some real nice)
New Decatur reaming kit.
A Stanwell No. 32 bulldog barely smoked
A Rossi straight apple, textured, new
A few other nick-nacks.
He said "Give me $100"
38 new pouches of H&H
1 quart size Mason Jar of H&H
About 1,000 pipe cleaners
30 new Bic lighters.
3 new small size leather travel cases
21 pipe tools ( some real nice)
New Decatur reaming kit.
A Stanwell No. 32 bulldog barely smoked
A Rossi straight apple, textured, new
A few other nick-nacks.
He said "Give me $100"
I thought I had a handle on having a reasonable amount cellared away in the basement, but then I started blending my own, and it looks like I'm back where I started. Time to smoke more, I guess. 
I am going to guess I have accumulated around 30-35 lbs of tobacco, and a portion has been sitting around long enough to say it has become a cellar.
I am going to guess I have accumulated around 30-35 lbs of tobacco, and a portion has been sitting around long enough to say it has become a cellar.
30-35 is respectable size. It’s gives the feeling where you haven’t over done it but have enough to not have the need for more, until something gets discontinued and you have the need to stock up on it.I thought I had a handle on having a reasonable amount cellared away in the basement, but then I started blending my own, and it looks like I'm back where I started. Time to smoke more, I guess.
It looks like the golden milk cow has run dry. Probably just as well as I figure I have enough tobacco, pipes, cleaners, etc. to last up to 10 years. Only thing is I'll probably have to visit the dollar store and buy some more lighters in a year or two... Oh no!This guy I've mentioned before, who I've gotten a lot of tobacco from over the last couple of years, has decided to quit pipe smoking. Seems his asthma has gotten so bad the doc told him to quit. So, this morning I got a call that went something like this: "I quit! Want to buy everything I have left?" I drove over to his house and came back home with the following.
38 new pouches of H&H
1 quart size Mason Jar of H&H
About 1,000 pipe cleaners
30 new Bic lighters.
3 new small size leather travel cases
21 pipe tools ( some real nice)
New Decatur reaming kit.
A Stanwell No. 32 bulldog barely smoked
A Rossi straight apple, textured, new
A few other nick-nacks.
He said "Give me $100"
For these couple of years I've been trying to figure out exactly what was going on with this fellow. For instance... Why would he buy 20 cans of a tobacco "just to try it"? Why would he buy a couple of dozen pipe tools and then never use them? All that tobacco and only a few pipes, most never smoked, why? Where was he getting all this stuff? And why would he sell it off at pennies on the dollar? He never offered any info and I didn't ask any questions so as not to "spook" him. Guess I'll never know the answers. He doubled the size of my stash and for that I'm grateful. I wish him the best.