Sometimes we just want what we want. Sometimes we spend the money, but sometimes we can't. Fred tells his story in his February Pipe Pundit column.
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Lovat’s Labor’s Lost
Does Your Spouse Know How Much Your Pipes Cost?
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What happens when you have a library at home, with thousands of books? I love literature, books on history, philosophy, anthropology, politics. I understand the sadness of the narrator of the story. When you love something, you can't stop thinking about getting it. The woman's conversation reminds me a lot of my wife. Although I am very lucky to have a woman who enjoys my library, and my modest collection of pipes.
My marriage lasted 49 years (my wife passed last summer) because neither of us hid how much we spent on "luxury" items and we always set a limit on how much we would spend on gifts. About third of my pipes are ones which she had bought me new for birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, etc. It's a little hard to hide the price of pipes when the wife goes buy them.
I don't know what that pipe cost, but I think any pipe that I need a payment plan for would be out of my budget.
That said, my wife only knows the value of the two pipes she bought for me and both are the most expensive I own, around $150.
On a related note, I am personally, vehemently against pipe racks and pipe displays. When I started out on this journey, I was looking at a vintage Decatur Pipe cabinet for a modest $70 that displayed 14 pipes. At that time I owned three or four pipes and my wife told me to get it, but then I heard her voice in my head, "When did that fill up?" That's when I knew my pipes would be kept in a felt lined drawer out of sight.
That said, my wife only knows the value of the two pipes she bought for me and both are the most expensive I own, around $150.
On a related note, I am personally, vehemently against pipe racks and pipe displays. When I started out on this journey, I was looking at a vintage Decatur Pipe cabinet for a modest $70 that displayed 14 pipes. At that time I owned three or four pipes and my wife told me to get it, but then I heard her voice in my head, "When did that fill up?" That's when I knew my pipes would be kept in a felt lined drawer out of sight.
This is interesting and relatable to me.I don't know what that pipe cost, but I think any pipe that I need a payment plan for would be out of my budget.
That said, my wife only knows the value of the two pipes she bought for me and both are the most expensive I own, around $150.
On a related note, I am personally, vehemently against pipe racks and pipe displays. When I started out on this journey, I was looking at a vintage Decatur Pipe cabinet for a modest $70 that displayed 14 pipes. At that time I owned three or four pipes and my wife told me to get it, but then I heard her voice in my head, "When did that fill up?" That's when I knew my pipes would be kept in a felt lined drawer out of sight.
I keep my pipes hidden from my daughter. As far as I know, she has no idea I smoke a pipe. I could be wrong.
I have massive TAD and virtually no PAD and I wonder if that’s because my pipes are stored out of sight? Your take on filling up a rack made sense to me.
Not only “when did that fill up” but also, “I guess I need a new rack to fill”.
I’d be curious about the relationship between prominence and method of pipe display/storage and frequency of pipe purchases among forum members.
My pipes are "relatively' inexpensive (compared to some of my other hobbies). Tobacco, on the other hand...
More or less.
She’s just glad I no longer smoke cigarettes and spend it on Watches, Motorcycles and Firearms.
I can always fall back with the I don’t have anymore pipes than you do shoes thing too
She’s just glad I no longer smoke cigarettes and spend it on Watches, Motorcycles and Firearms.
I can always fall back with the I don’t have anymore pipes than you do shoes thing too
My SO is the one who buys me most of my pipes. I'm too miserly to spend $150 on a pipe so she does hahaha. But I'm more of a tobacco guy anyway so I spend more on the things I smoke. My pipe collection is fairly circumspect. I have about 15. 2/3rds are basket pipes. I have a few cobs and two meers. I have a few Petersons a few Nordings. The fanciest pipe I have is a Boswell freehand. She took me to Boswell's and got it for me. I don't think I have a pipe worth more than $180. Most are less than $50. The only blend she complains about as far as the smell is concerned is Pirate Kake haha. I seldom smoke it anyway. She is a keeper. There certainly are many I want, but, as I said, I probably won't buy them. What I really wish I had is one of those Eldritch pipes. Someday when I have money....
I wish I was around during the time of this story so I could give him better counsel on how to hide pipes.
No relation. Pipes are small.
I’ve kept my pipeweeding habits away from my elementary-school-aged children. My unsmoked pipes are in my bedroom closet. My smoking pipes are in my pipe drawer in my garage. My pipe collection at my dad’s grew from 1 to more than 1. This hobby doesn’t abide space constraints.
My biggest fear is always that my wife will sell my stuff for what I told her I paid for it LOL!!!!!! So the answer is no its always $30 lol
I'd never hide it. But I bought many before we got married. I honestly wish she did know because I can't remember the price I paid for many of my pipes.
ADHD sucks. Lol
ADHD sucks. Lol
I don't own any fancy pipes. Most are run of the mill Savinellis and Petersons with a few other brands sprinkled in (all in the same price range).
She's bought 3 or 4 of them as gifts, so she's aware of how much they cost.
She's bought 3 or 4 of them as gifts, so she's aware of how much they cost.
I hold myself accountable. The two most expensive pipes still in my collection were both about $50, and the rest are under $30. I don't have many pipes now - I think fewer than 20, not counting my stash of unsmoked backup cobs.
Tobacco, on the other hand... that's where the money was spent.
Tobacco, on the other hand... that's where the money was spent.
My wife and I each have our own hobby money. I don't ask about her crafting supplies; she never asks about my pipe collection.
So, no.
So, no.
Same. She even bought the majority of mine.