Are You a Sloppy Pipe Smoker or a Meticulous Pipe Smoker?

[Thehogfatherpdx]

I would describe myself as clean but chaotic. I always do at least a quick cleaning after i smoke, but i tend to want to open new tobacco more often than i finish tins that I've opened so I have a bunch of tobacco in different jars in my closet and around my place. usually when i smoke I have a specific pipe or a specific tobacco that I'm hankerin' for, so i just go from there and it all just kind of gets opened and shuffled around haphazardly.

 

[Dio]

I am the sloppy type.

 

[cigrmaster]

I've kept my pipes in drawers for years and have never once experienced what you wrote. The few major collections of rare pipes I've been invited to see have all been kept in drawers. Maybe it's that skunk weed you're smoking, Harris.

Jesse, you could be 100% correct.

 

[Derby]

Sloppy.

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Didimauw, I gather by your name you had an all expense paid tour of SE Asia ?

 

[didimauw]

Didimauw, I gather by your name you had an all expense paid tour of SE Asia ?

Haha nope. Just like the movie Deer Hunter.

 

[Paul lec]

I try to be neat,I have an old barrister bookcase that I keep all my pipes,tobacco and on top a humidor for my cigars. Looks can be deceiving though,my desk has bits of tobacco,some ashes and the floor is the same,I like neat,but it's hard.and I've always gone for easy!

 

[JimPM]

By admission, fastidious or OCD-in my practice. Professionally I am a Supply Chain guy and honestly my business approaches spill over into the home; can’t help it. Yes, all my tobaccos are jarred, properly labeled, sorted by blend type within the storage rack. I keep a master listing of inventory/usage/cost/sourcing. As to the pipes, they are stored and sorted by blend-type dedication as well. I systematically rotate them on a schedule in order optimize controlled use without too much frequency. Because the investment, I am particular about maintenance and preventative care. With each smoking session, at minimum, they are cleaned, disassembled for drying, and wiped down with a micro-fiber. Once a month or as needed, I hit them will a deeper alcohol-based bristle brush cleaning and re-apply a coat of surface wax. Over the top, yeah perhaps.

 

[BeachBumBri]

Here's a photo.

 

[jewman22]

Organized by blend, 8 to 12 pipes for each blend type.
Let pipes sit for 1hr after a smoke then clean with Vodka soaked pipe cleaner.
A pipe never get's smoked more than twice in the same week.
All tobacco goes into a flip top jar.
Pipes never left laying around, always put back on the rack, in the correct spot.
Only polish or re-wax as needed, but it's not a regular thing.

 

[telescopes]

Organized by blend, 8 to 12 pipes for each blend type.
Let pipes sit for 1hr after a smoke then clean with Vodka soaked pipe cleaner.
A pipe never get's smoked more than twice in the same week.
All tobacco goes into a flip top jar.
Pipes never left laying around, always put back on the rack, in the correct spot.
Only polish or re-wax as needed, but it's not a regular thing.

This sounds rather meticulous. ?

 

[1allspub]

Meticulous... definitely meticulous.

 

[jewman22]

This sounds rather meticulous. ?

Yeah, my OCD won't let me do it any other way, they are also organized by brand within the already sorted by blend.

 

[Derby]

Make sure your pipes are organized alphabetically by height.

 

[carolinasmokes]

Wow, what a thread, thanks for sharing your habits good and bad. I am neat and well organized, everything in my house has its place. I keep an open tub of Carter Hall on a shelf next to my desk to fill my roll up when needed, I have one or two cobs in rotation at any given time and a stockpile of fresh cobs if and when a replacement is needed, no need for a large rotation of cobs when you only smoke one blend. I also have a few tubs of Carter Hall in reserve. Cob maintenance is minimal, takes one pipe cleaner and a fresh filter after 3 or 4 smokes and it's good to go again. I keep my cob and roll up on my desk, ready to go. Because I smoke outdoors I never have to deal with an ash or tobacco mess indoors. So my house stays clean and fresh the way I like it.

 

[OtcBastid]

sloppy...All pipes stored smacked against eachother in a cheap tupperare container in the garage. All tins to be smoked, note I said smoked not cellared, remain on garage shelf to be dried to crisp and ignited.

Caring less is better. Lighters and discarded pipe cleaners sit on a table outside. Sometimes pipe cleaners blow in the window.

As a genuine slob, I do still use pipe cleaners. Maybe I should stop doing it, just let it goop up and "ghost to taste"

 

[burleybreath]

Jekyll/Hyde here. I've got two large racks, one a 24-pipe silhouette type shown here, and another 36-pipe regular. Unfortunately, I have more than 60 pipes, if you get the drift. And cobs--forget it. They lie around everywhere. As far as maintenance goes, I strive (heh) to keep them reasonably clean, but to go OCD on instruments for burning leaves in, to me, smacks of mild insanity.

Eeew...look: that gray penumbra around the base of the stands below...I think that's dust! Or fine gray ash. I'm so embarrassed! (Not. And, not to brag, but I do dust every decade or so.)