Are There Any Members Here That Do Not Worry or Bother With Building A Cellar?

[tokerpipes]

I don't have an actual cellar, as I'm sure most of us here don't. That being said I don't actually "cellar" tobacco either.

What I do is buy one or two tins of MANY different tobaccos that I am curious to try, so I end up with a bunch of jars and tins that will inevitably gain some age as they await their demise.

So it's not intentional, but rather a side effect of me wanting to try various blends. I always envision myself narrowing it down to just a couple VAs, a couple VaPers, and a couple English blends, but lately I wonder if that'll ever actually happen

That is actually how I started cellaring. I thought the same, but with so many blends out there and the itch to try a different one. It’s going to be months or years before I get back around to them.

I did find a few that I liked and got more in bulk to jar or be a continuous go to blend.

 

[danish]

I have a cellar but only two open tins. I should have cellared, while I could afford it, during my almost 40 years pipe smoking career but not until recently have I considered doing it, after being influenced by joining forums
I don’t remember it being a subject in the heydays of pipe smoking, decades ago. Guess most of us, then thought tobacco should preferably be smoked fresh, ha ha!

 

[jaytex1969]

In three years, I've amassed enough tobacco to get me to the era of incontinence.

I have been Lady N's bitch since age 13 and have no intention of changing.

 

[funtimespipesmoking]

Good thread.

I buy as wanted/needed, and don't cellar or save for future consumption.

 

[lightmybriar]

I didn’t ever buy more than I was currently smoking until McClelland closed down and I was left without all of my favorite tobaccos. I used to think cellaring was just a specific preference for some, but after that hard lesson, I started buying two of whatever I was ordering, to slowly build up a supply of things that I liked in case something like that ever happened again.

Now I have an okay supply of tobaccos I like and I’m happy about that.

 

[oldred]

I have been Lady N's bitch since age 13 and have no intention of changing.

She's a mean one.

 

[tokerpipes]

I buy two of every tin and split my bulk down into jars. One for now and one for later. That way I don’t feel like I am buying and not enjoying anything now. Drives my wife crazy. Gonna need a storage unit at some point.

 

[sandollars]

My thoughts on the subject:
The Ants & the Grasshopper

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, taking inventory of the tobacco they had cellared before the FDA imposition, when a jittery Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a tin of Esoterica.
"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"
"I didn't have time to store up any tobacco," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."
The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.
"Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

With our prices and assortment here up north there is no brand name one would want to cellar, but regardless of this, I shall concentrate on buying tobaccies from 2020 and on, eventually I plan on taking short border-crossing trips yet will use my C cards and connections overseasall this in order to replenish my modest cellar

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

My life wouldn't end or come close to falling apart without tobacco. But it is more pleasant with it. I'm blessed to have the means to have invested in a decent cellar. Now I just hope I'm blessed with years of life to enjoy the cellar, my Granddaughters and other aspects of my life.

 

[Akousticplyr]

I tend to add a few extra tins to my orders with the thought of cellaring due to upcoming legislation. Not to mention what that will probably do to manufacturers closing doors.

 

[shanez]

I cellar simply because I have the money right now. Maybe in the future I won't.

I do the same with wine & liquor. And guns & ammo. And beanie babies.

 

[spartacus]

My life wouldn't end or come close to falling apart without tobacco. But it is more pleasant with it. I'm blessed to have the means to have invested in a decent cellar. Now I just hope I'm blessed with years of life to enjoy the cellar, my Granddaughters and other aspects of my life.

+1

 

[kurtbob]

I also buy tins X2 of new tobaccos i want to try which means a lot of times I end up with 1 tin in the cabinet for later down the road. Stuff that can be hard to get that I really like such as Hal O The Wynd can be hard to to find so, when I come across it I will buy as much as I can afford to put up.

 

[Elric]

I also buy tins X2 of new tobaccos i want to try which means a lot of times I end up with 1 tin in the cabinet for later down the road. Stuff that can be hard to get that I really like such as Hal O The Wynd can be hard to to find so, when I come across it I will buy as much as I can afford to put up.

<humor>
I've done this as well from time to time. Now I have a bunch of single tins like Volcano TongueBurn #1, Dental Nightmare Mixture, Old ToothDarkener, and SootWeep Special Edition (the Everclear of Tobacco)!
</humor>

 

[kurtbob]

<humor>
I've done this as well from time to time. Now I have a bunch of single tins like Volcano TongueBurn #1, Dental Nightmare Mixture, Old ToothDarkener, and SootWeep Special Edition (the Everclear of Tobacco)!
</humor>

Yeah, learned that lesson early on! If is seems kinda sketchy and not 80% or better in my taste wheelhouse I don’t even buy any tins. Fortunately I don’t currently have any tins of stuff that I wouldn’t smoke again

 

[olkofri]

he difference between somebody with 5 pounds of 'baccy in the cellar and someone with 200+ pounds is generally more of a difference of economic means than a difference in philosophy.

Embers the Millionaire!!

Who says piracy doesn't pay?

 

[danish]

My thoughts on the subject:
The Ants & the Grasshopper

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, taking inventory of the tobacco they had cellared before the FDA imposition, when a jittery Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a tin of Esoterica.
"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"
"I didn't have time to store up any tobacco," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."
The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.
"Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.

Ha ha! I guess I am a grasshopper!

To add pain to my earlier mentioned ignorance, I was some years ago, through friends, gifted a fine, decades old tobacco cellar from a late ant. It consisted of dozens of unopened tins from late factories.
I found them just as good (or better) than the fresh tins I usually bought. Gave a few tins away and immediately smoked the rest till my cellar was again empty....I didn’t know at that time what I know today.

 

[Ctbill]

I cellar simply because I have the money right now. Maybe in the future I won't.

I do the same with wine & liquor. And guns & ammo. And beanie babies.

1. Tobacco generally betters with age...?
2. Booze in bottles won’t change... (not a wine guy tho...)?
3. Properly stored ammo NEVER ages!???
4. No comment on the Beanie Babies...?

 

[jaytex1969]

You can use beanie babies as pipe rests, reactive rifle targets or to keep your booze bottles from clanking together in transit.

Make sense to me!