Cellar Depression

[Ryszard]

Do you ever get this empty feeling going through your cellar, inspecting the piles of tins or jars, reminiscing about the hundreds or thousands of dollars spent, thinking: "Is this my life? Was this really worth it? What is it all for anyway?"

And then 2 hours later you get a notification that Squadron Leader is back in stock and you order 50 tins because you don't have enough tobacco in your life anyway and definitely need to stock up your cellar some more before the dawn of the tobacco apocalypse?

Obviously I'm exaggerating, but I do get this empty feeling looking at my cellar or my pipe collection sometimes - call it a moment of weakness - where I just feel indifferent about it at all and need a short break from it. Usually lasts a day at most but I wonder if anyone felt the same occasionally.

 

[litup]

Yeah, I've had that feeling before too. It hasn't always been limited to tobacco though. I've had it with most of the material things I've pursued with zeal throughout my life. I'll sit there and calculate the number of days I spent in the office to purchase it and consider whether the exchange of my life has been worth it.

 

[virginialover]

I'm done buying tobacco and actually looking at my cellar brings me peace on a job well done. While traveling abroad I might buy a tin or two but it's for personal consumption not for cellaring. My pipe collection of about 40 pipes of different grades is also complete. I really concentrate on enjoying pipe and cigar smoking and I never worry about what was and how much it cost money wise or other.

 

[Akousticplyr]

The only empty feeling I get right now is that my cellar is too empty!
Still playing catch-up compared to many aficionados here, especially with the apocalypse coming...

But I do understand where you’re coming from!

 

[petes03]

I shudder to think how much I have tied up in pipes, tobacco, guns, ammo, vintage wood working tools, backpacking/camping gear, and pocket knives. Not to mention all my Tennessee Vols and Green Bay Packers stuff, and my Harley....... I could probably buy another house with all that I’ve spent!

 

[ray47]

I think alot of us have had that feeling at one time or another, I know I have. I just ignore it and go window shopping on the net.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Nope. Other than the tobacco I buy I spend basically no money.. Hell, I'm wearing underwear I've had since 05. Haha

 

[sandollars]

Salty Dogs anyone?

Curly Block?

How about Dark Plug?


I didn't even show you the 3 pounds of KBV or the 1.5 pounds of Happy Brown bogey that i also pulled out of this bin...
And this is just 1 out of 28 bins.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I've bought around 450 pounds of tobacco in the past 2 1/2 years. The only feeling I have is satisfaction that, barring some horrendous catastrophe, I'll have something to smoke as long as I'm upright and breathing. Fortunately, no other of life's needs or family needs were compromised in doing that. My only regret is not having purchased another 100 lbs of McClelland in the first 3 months of 2018.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Do you ever get this empty feeling going through your cellar, inspecting the piles of tins or jars, reminiscing about the hundreds or thousands of dollars spent, thinking: "Is this my life? Was this really worth it? What is it all for anyway?"

Nope, mostly done and on to new things as I'm a smoker and not a hobbyist though I still sometimes buy for fun. I'm up over 350 pounds in my cellar but severely deficient in twisty puzzles.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Salty Dogs anyone?
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Curly Block?
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How about Dark Plug?

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I didn't even show you the 3 pounds of KBV or the 1.5 pounds of Happy Brown bogey that i also pulled out of this bin...
And this is just 1 out of 28 bins.

Don't like Curly Block or Dark Plug, but bought 20 packs of Salty Dogs for $9 per packing in a group buy we did on here the year it was introduced. You may want to jar the SD as those packs are not air tight.

 

[Casual]

If you are looking for meaning in life, you will not find it in smoking a pipe. You might find it while smoking a pipe, but that is another matter.

Things that really give one a sense of meaning must be profound. It is too easy these days to get caught up in acquiring things.

 

[logs]

I wonder if anyone felt the same occasionally.

A form of hoarding shame that doesn't get discussed much here. Yep. It happens to me as well.

 

[mso489]

I try to keep purchases modest, and buy only a few blends at a time, and I still buy way beyond my consumption, which is about a bowl or two a day. It is a sort of high, buying things, but I try to keep it in perspective and use it, rather than having it use me. Possessions can own us, if we aren't careful. Balance in life and thought is an undervalued virtue in today's thinking, but I try to subscribe.

 

[greeneyes]

It might happen from time to time, but when I stand back and look at myself within the bigger pictures and realize that we are part of a rich and noble tradition spanning several generations, it's difficult to feel like I'm a dead end in all this. It's easy to momentarily forget all of the friendships, past and present, moments shared, tobaccos smoked. I might just be one brick, but in its totality this is a breathtaking and hallowed edifice we all comprise. My old pipes weave a long story through the ages, of which I am a devoted participant and certainly not the final chapter.

 

[kwg116]

It might happen from time to time, but when I stand back and look at myself within the bigger pictures and realize that we are part of a rich and noble tradition spanning several generations, it's difficult to feel like I'm a dead end in all this. It's easy to momentarily forget all of the friendships, past and present, moments shared, tobaccos smoked. I might just be one brick, but in its totality this is a breathtaking and hallowed edifice we all comprise. My old pipes weave a long story through the ages, of which I am a devoted participant and certainly not the final chapter.

Well said.

 

[voorhees]

I haven’t bought any lately, my feelings towards things in general have changed quite a bit. Life has a way of keeping you on your toes and things that seemed important become less so.

 

[captainsousie]

Thanks for the inspiration to look for Squadron Leader. I just spent money I shouldn't have on 750 grams of the stuff. That brings my SL cellar up to a kilo and that should last me the rest of my life.

 

[seanv]

I understand the feeling. I have a 20 lb cellar and about 40 pipes. I sometimes wonder why? But then I snap out of it and enjoy a bowl of haunted bookshop

 

[weezell]

I'm gonna retire in January 2021. No regrets on my tobacco holdings. Hope I live long enough to smoke it all...