Pipes for the eye and hand, tobacco for the heart, heh heh. A financial advisor recommended that to reduce your purchasing expenditures, you should reduce your temptation. Throw the catalogs away unopened. Avoid eBay. Don't go to the grocery on an empty stomach, things like that. Psychology tells us that as we reach midlife, a person tends to seek out experiences rather than survival needs. Perhaps if someone built a pipe museum and tobacco bar.....