Diminishing Returns Mind Experiment

[snag]

I think I would appreciate the favorites more...And wonder why I ever really needed the others at all.

 

[lucky695]

well If there is no one to blame and nothing to explain the missing pipes of lesser value, I am left with starting at step one. I would be inclined, as I must have been to begin with there was a sound reason for splitting up my collection into favored and expendable. So once again, logic would tend to make me halve the lot once again into the remaining treasures and those now that are expendable now. I mean I must have had good reason to do it. such it the diminishing returns, soon, if the cycled continued I would be left with one pipe that is both my favorite and yet the most expendable.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

This has been the rationale keeping me from buying any more pipes for the last little while.

Smoking the most that I'm comfortable with (two bowls a week) I can barely smoke any given pipe more than once per-year, for me to buy more basically puts something else in permanent storage.

I should really sell the majority of my collection...

Unless I just want it to be a collection. That's just about the only thing keeping pipes in my hands right now.
With IPSD looming I've got about as much internal conflict as Darth Vader.

 

[saltedplug]

The OP's scenario devolves to learning to appreciate that which was not originally favored. I would, but the inertia of pipe mania would seem to carry to the grave. I can't arrest that motion because I don't want to do so. Money can apply the brakes, but just yesterday I made a deal on a sweet Castello by trade. It's taken 15 years and more or less daily pipe cruising for me to define what I like and why I like it.
Stop? No, too much fun, but now I'm much more aware of the "we" consciousness of me and my wallet instead of the "me" who buys cigars, pipe tobacco and pipes with abandon.

 

[mso489]

sable, "too many pipes" is, I suppose, entirely subjective. If some is restoring pipes and turning them over, and buying lots to get the best ones to restore, 200 pipes might seem like a standard inventory. If you just buy them and smoke them, and smoke moderately as I do, a bowl or two a day and sometimes none, my 80 or so pipes seem like an extravagance or overabundance. It's an odd collection. I have some up-market pipes, a number of middle market, and quite a few cobs, basket pipes, and down market factory pipes, and some of these less expensive smoke really well.

 

[disinformatique]

If I lost half my collection. I will cut my losses, mourn over the pipes and then start rebuilding the colletion. Albeit with similar pipes.
Cheers,

Chris

 

[toobfreak]

What's this thread about again? :mrgreen: Depending on how you smoke, I can easily see why some people might want to collect up to 60 - 80 pipes or even more. If I lost any pipes I would value the remaining just the same then turn the loss over to my insurance company for the others.

 

[addamsruspipe]

Almost every pipe I have is an estate pipe that I worked to make something that I liked and wanted to smoke. The ones I did not like I have moved on. So every pipe I have has a emotional value to it, so I think that I would value the pipes left even more because of the emotional piece.
As a add. on to the "to many pipes", my current rotation is 20 pipes. I tend to smoke two different pipes a day, till I start over. I see no problem with having a 365 day rotation. As long as I am enjoying them and smoking them no number is too much.