Do you Cellar or just Smoke?
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So, tomorrow, a blight falls upon the African tobacco crops, sending the market into pandemonium. Tins jump to $60+ on the US market ($754 Canadian +tax). Where will you be? Will you reduce how much you smoke? Do you smack yourself in the head for not putting back an extra tin while it was dirt cheap? Me? I'm smoking aged Virginias all day long.
People sometimes complain that tobacco is too expensive, but that is the stupidest way to look at it. In comparison to my old $300+ a month cigarette habit, or a $10-20 cigar a day, I can get by on three tins a month. So, I take my old budget for $300 a month for cigs, and put that into pipe tobacco, and in two years, I have to add on to the house to hold it all. Cheap, cheap cheap.
But, I am not going to peer pressure anyone. Heck, it's actually good that not everyone sets back tobacco for the future, or sees the current prices as being so cheap. When the price shoots up to $100 a tin, I'll just sell the whole wad and retire, maybe I could afford some really nice cigars, ha ha!!
People sometimes complain that tobacco is too expensive, but that is the stupidest way to look at it. In comparison to my old $300+ a month cigarette habit, or a $10-20 cigar a day, I can get by on three tins a month. So, I take my old budget for $300 a month for cigs, and put that into pipe tobacco, and in two years, I have to add on to the house to hold it all. Cheap, cheap cheap.
But, I am not going to peer pressure anyone. Heck, it's actually good that not everyone sets back tobacco for the future, or sees the current prices as being so cheap. When the price shoots up to $100 a tin, I'll just sell the whole wad and retire, maybe I could afford some really nice cigars, ha ha!!
Both. Not much to say after Cosmic, 'cause ...yeah.
It also reminds me I said in another thread recently I was gonna take some pictures so I'd better stop being lazy.
It also reminds me I said in another thread recently I was gonna take some pictures so I'd better stop being lazy.
In the beginning of my pipe journey, cellaring out paced smoking. Now that I am looking at a full(ish) cellar, I can comfortably say my smoking is out pacing cellaring.
All that being said, 100% of my cellar has been purchased for personal consumption, not for resale or anything like that. I bought all my tobacco to hedge against future price increases and discontinued blends.
All that being said, 100% of my cellar has been purchased for personal consumption, not for resale or anything like that. I bought all my tobacco to hedge against future price increases and discontinued blends.
I take interest in those who just smoke. Find a favorite and maybe purchase one similar at some point down the line. I think my Uncle Jim was a lot like that. I picture it was just him and Prince Albert or Sir Walter Raleigh. No room or need to expound.
I'm a calculated adventurer and that bleeds over into my hobbies. However, I've come to the point of purchasing more cellar than smoke.
In attempts to come to terms with my TAD habits, it was curious that I just automatically assumed everyone cellared for the obvious price hike ("sin" tax vs. tobacco blight) or even resale. I tell my wife at least I don't turn my love of scotch into a collecting hobby.
I would like to get to a point of making at least one purchase a quarter (as finances allow) to cut down on the TAD. I'm thinking 8 oz. of a favorite, 100g of something I've tried and enjoyed, and at least 50g of something I've never tried.
I've read the rule of purchasing at least one tin to replace a tin from the cellar you open to enjoy. Any other cellaring "rules"?
I'm a calculated adventurer and that bleeds over into my hobbies. However, I've come to the point of purchasing more cellar than smoke.
In attempts to come to terms with my TAD habits, it was curious that I just automatically assumed everyone cellared for the obvious price hike ("sin" tax vs. tobacco blight) or even resale. I tell my wife at least I don't turn my love of scotch into a collecting hobby.
I would like to get to a point of making at least one purchase a quarter (as finances allow) to cut down on the TAD. I'm thinking 8 oz. of a favorite, 100g of something I've tried and enjoyed, and at least 50g of something I've never tried.
I've read the rule of purchasing at least one tin to replace a tin from the cellar you open to enjoy. Any other cellaring "rules"?
I'm just starting my journey and am buying a little bit of everything to see what I like. When I find blends I like I'll buy some extra to stash but certainly not pounds in case my novice taste evolves. That said I'm buying more types than I can smoke each month so a bit of a cellar and a bit of a tasting menu.
I have decided on my favorites and am in my happy place. I now buy extra of my favorites to hedge the rising cost of tobacco. I guess you can say I cellar to smoke and not cellar to age, although the aging is a side benefit.
Just went into full on cellaring mode, after several years of "trying" to cellar. My last TAD, due to arrive this Friday, consists of two lbs. Luxury Navy Flake, and a pound of Old Dark Fired. That puts me at one pound of Mac Baren's Virginia No. 1, two pounds of ODF, and two pounds of LNF- minus what I've smoked over the last two weeks. My next order will either be a duplicate of the last, or five pounds of LNF, depending on the price discount for five pounds.
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