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

[cshubhra]

While my cellar is growing (because I buy more than I smoke) I am not actively building a cellar. Some of the reasons

1. I think even if internet sales are stopped, tobacco will continue to be available in B&Ms for quite some time
2. While tobacco may be cheaper today, the money I put in tobacco at a minimum if invested will give 9% return. By the power of compounding the money will also grow
3. Money put in discretionary goods like tobacco is sunk. If kept invested, it can be used during a rainy day. It’s the grasshopper who saves tobacco. It’s the ant who invests the money in return producing assets
4. Everything said and done - I have calculated that I need about $15,000 worth of tobacco. If I spend 15K on tobacco people will question my sanity at a bare minimum
5. I need about 1000 ball jars to store them. While I do have a small cellar, I don’t want my house to look like a tobacco warehouse

 

[saintpeter]

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.

If there is any kind of apocalypse tobacco will always be in demand.

If there is any kind of apocalypse liquor will always be in demand.

If there is any kind of apocalypse beanie babies...what???

 

[kola]

I went through a tobacco hoarding period years ago. Now I sit and just stare at the stuff. Funny thing is 3/4's of it - I don't like. And being a 1-2 bowl per day smoker I don't even need it anyhow.

My thing nowadays is paying high dollar for discontinued (or hard-to-get) blends that I really like.

I think it's nice to have a SMALL variety of different tobaccos to choose from but I think the average guy gets caught up in the frenzy and goes overboard. Like I did.

Oh, big stocked cellars? It's good for bragging rights !

 

[seanv]

I have about 16 lbs organized in tins and jars and stored in plastic totes and my pipe cabinet. I feel like I need more due to the current availability and ridiculous prices here. When I can no longer order like I do, I will be happy with my cellar

 

[sandollars]

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!


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I tried one of them Beanie Babies as a rest for my Lapua once......... Beanie guts everywhere. It was a slaughtering.......

 

[agnosticpipe]

I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I have about 100 open tins that are jarred up, and I visit them as I see fit. I have at least 60 tins in my so called cellar that are mostly something different that I have yet to open. A few are extras of my open tins that I like, but otherwise I don't smoke enough to cellar too deep. I figure that I have enough to last about 5 years at the rate I smoke and after that if I can't buy more I'll just give up smoking. (I'm 73 yrs. old) But then again, remember, that I don't know what the hell I'm doing!

 

[anotherbob]

I have a very light cellar. Mainly just the must haves.

 

[gervais]

I have a very light cellar. Mainly just the must haves.

What are your must haves, may I ask? Mine are fvf and ogs

 

[craig61a]

I’m not worried - my cellar will last until I take a dirt nap.

 

[anotherbob]

Something by Manil, GL Pease Key Largo, Peterson's University Flake, and Brebbia Allegro.

 

[bullet08]

don't really cellar. but i do buy more than i smoke and things just accumulate. usually buy tobaccos that sound good and they are queued till their turn comes up.

 

[Frozenoak]

don't really cellar. but i do buy more than i smoke and things just accumulate. usually buy tobaccos that sound good and they are queued till their turn comes up.

I’m somewhere on this sliding scale. I buy 2 tins of something I’ve never tried, shelf one, try the other. If I like it enough, the next time I need some, I buy more (usually 5-8 tins). If it turns out I don’t like it (rare) I jar whats left and I’ll come back to it someday. If I find it “good enough” (common) the one tin stays in my rotation, with one in the cellar. My current rotation will probably take a year to work through but I go through the stuff I like faster than the stuff that’s “good enough.” Someday I’ll have more time than money and that’s reason enough to have a cellar.

On the subject of beanie babies, my dog found those and I’m not sure anybody would be interested in what’s left, thankfully she wasn’t interested in the booze or tobacco.

 

[augiebd]

Not really cellaring. In Canada, B&M prices are unreasonable and online sales run the risk of high duties. Due to a slow rate of consumption, I am building an excess supply from trips to the States where my wife and I bring back the maximum duty free pipe tobacco each time (about 7 oz. per person).

 

[TinCup]

No I don't cellar or collect, I'll be lucky if I have enough tobacco to do me till end of April, I'm already panicking what i'll do before supplies can get through in June, I may have to go on half rations in the new year... ??

 

[Mtlpiper]

Not really cellaring. In Canada, B&M prices are unreasonable and online sales run the risk of high duties. Due to a slow rate of consumption, I am building an excess supply from trips to the States where my wife and I bring back the maximum duty free pipe tobacco each time (about 7 oz. per person).

Same here. Online sales - I've spent over $200 in duty payments over the last month, but I've still saved money compared to B&M buying. Then again, I only buy what they don't stock. I seem to get dinged by customs on every third order - or whenever I buy over 100g (still trying to figure that out).

I also incidentally cellar. I have probably 10lb of unsmoked tobacco right now and that's a lot of ball jars. I need to stop buying soon and just focus on smoking through my stack... but will that happen?

 

[seldom]

I don't really cellar. I anticipate moving internationally in the near future so it would be one more headache. I may move with some hard to acquire tobacco blends but certainly not the large cellars of other members here.

I also have two young sons and a wife who I'd rather spend money on then myself. I like a little pipe tobacco variety, which I have, but a large cellar of tobacco would be too self indulgent for me at this stage considering family and finances.

 

[oldguyoldpipes]

Just starting out compared to the more veteran members on this forum, but already have a "cabinet-cellar" that seems very full.
I do worry that our government will become more and more prohibitive of all tobacco availability. I'm sure I have enough, or will shortly, to keep my pipes lit into the near decade. However, half the fun is the search for additional enjoyable pipe tobacco. With that being said, I am starting to order larger amounts of the tobacco I already foresee as being "favorites". Besides, it's not like the stored tobacco is going to go bad, right?

 

[gervais]

I don't really cellar. I anticipate moving internationally in the near future so it would be one more headache. I may move with some hard to acquire tobacco blends but certainly not the large cellars of other members here.

I also have two young sons and a wife who I'd rather spend money on then myself. I like a little pipe tobacco variety, which I have, but a large cellar of tobacco would be too self indulgent for me at this stage considering family and finances.

This will be my reality in the near future. Thankfully my kids are pretty young (3, and a 2 month old) and they do not require much in terms of money at that age, besides a home, healthy food, clothes and my undying love. I figure now is the perfect time for me to build up a cellar of sorts. My family is by zero means "rich", but we both work, and didn't opt for fancy cars and an oversize palace, so we have a little bit of overflow after our essentials are paid. Once the young lads start wanting to play hockey, go to games, asking for the latest greatest toys, concerts, first car, gas money......etc etc......lmao. Then I will be screwed

 

[vates]

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

Absolutely the same here.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I cellar because blends can suddenly stop being made (Warrior Plug comes to mind) and then you've got the threat of Internet/mail order and flavour bans so I think it's just prudent to do so, if you want to smoke your favourite blends into the future anyway.
Then of course it only ever gets more expensive so it just makes sense, well for me anyway.