There’s no such thing as too much. I always try to pick up a tin or few oz of something I like every time I go to a b&m, because you never know how long that blend will be available (looking at you McClelland)
Cellaring: How Much is Too Much?
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I have 5-6 lbs cellared. For my current rate of smoking I have less than two years worth of tobacco but I do continue to add to it whenever I see fit.
I am a 2 bowls a week piper on average, so I think I have enough tobacco in tins to last me about 10 years, if I bought nothing further. But that's almost all tins of Virginias that I am going to leave alone and put age on. I also have a few bulk purchases in mason jars that adds up to several more years worth. But this wasn't a lot of money and it's all hiding in one cardboard box, basically. So it's not too excessive to me.
I smoke roughly an ounce per week. If I stopped buying tobacco today my stash would last me about 4-5 years at that rate. I’m trying to whittle down 6-8 blends to cellar deeply, not to age them per se but to garner against extinction of my favorites. Blends or entire blending houses can vanish with little to no warning and I have a handful of blends that I simply do not want to ever do without.
My cellar isn't huge but it will last me about 25 years of daily smoking. That said, I still add to it when so inclined. Been going through a Country Squire streak lately. I have yet to find anything in their line I don't enjoy a lot.
I have specific instructions on who to contact if I croak so my family won't be wondering what to do with it all and can recoup some of my "investment" (ha!). Another part of the master plan involves some sharing with this forum, as you lot are the only ones that would truly enjoy it. Think of it as a final box pass.
I have specific instructions on who to contact if I croak so my family won't be wondering what to do with it all and can recoup some of my "investment" (ha!). Another part of the master plan involves some sharing with this forum, as you lot are the only ones that would truly enjoy it. Think of it as a final box pass.
Yeh, so like the first person to get the box, gets a cellar, ha ha. I wish that I could have as much faith in forum membership as you.
Point well taken. I will be specific who runs it and let it go from there. Hell, I won't care.
It would be fun to have a traveling box, where someone starts it with 5 or 10 random tins, and it gets passed around perpetually with everyone receiving it taking one tin from the box and putting in another of their own, then sending to the next person.
Box passes, we've done that before. The problem is that occasionally, someone gets the box and then disappears from the forum, never to be heard from again. I want to say that we are all good guys here, but sometimes, someone...
For many years, I enjoyed my weekly walk to the local tobacconist, to buy another 50g tin, just before or after having emptied my 'cellar'. You never know when you decide to quit someday and I tend to drink, eat or smoke too much, when I have more than sufficient beer, chocolate or tobacco in stock. I know, I am not that smart...
WTF?! Ha ha. you lost me at this sentence. Like I'm going to wake up one day, and just forget to pack a pipe, and then keep forgetting, ha ha.
I could never forget my pipe in the morning. Or during the day. But these days, you know, I am told so, when eg my wife has prepared a nice breakfast, lunch or dinner and when my boss wants me to do some work. All day! We pipe smokers face so many disturbances during the day, that I unfortunately had these blasphemish thoughts of quitting. Actually, several times during the last 40 years!
$5 in 2001 that turned into $65 in 2012 is roughly a 23.85% annual rate of return.
i'm just starting to cellar, but really enjoying the anticipation of future bowls. that being said, i've likely got 2 years of tobacco on stock, and the collection just keeps growing...
I’m glad I’m a way. Keeping manufacturers profitable and healthy is key to enjoying this for many years to come.
No ROI, no well resourced future.
Speak for yourself, I have a pipe going through most of the day when I'm not sleeping.
Here is the key phrase, or sentence or whatever: "One who dies with most tobacco wins."
You are right. I should have used 'most' instead of 'we'. Like in: 'most pipe smokers love dunhill pipes!'
Throw away pipes are always good to have around.
There’s always the probability that your smoking pace fluctuates over the course of 100 years.