How Large is Your Pipe Collection in Proportion to How Much You Smoke?

[tobefrank]

I have settled on 10 or so pipes that I really like and smoke regularly enough. I smoke on average about once a week, so about 50 bowls per year. That means that each pipe gets used on average 5 times per year.

How does your pipe collection relate to how much you smoke? How many runs does each pipe get in a year?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

To me, there is no correlation between one and the other. I have way over 100 pipes, so many that I don't even care to count them. I do smoke a lot, but I am trying to cut down from 12 or so to just six bowls a day, maybe less. This however doesn't mean that I want less pipes. I will probably continue to collect them till I quit or die. I just love a new pipe.

 

[ashdigger]

Well, not to humble brag, but today is Thursday, that means I’ve smoked about fifty bowls this week. I have no idea how many times each pipe gets smoked. All I know is my pipes get smoked. He’ll, I honestly don’t know how many pipes I own. Lol.

 

[Latakia Dave]

I try to stay somewhere around 50 pipes or a few less most of the time, but as far as how that correlates with the amount each gets smoked , I really have no idea. I just smoke whichever pipe happens to call me at any given time, some more often than others, some maybe once a year.

 

[daberman]

To me, there is no correlation between one and the other. I have way over 100 pipes, so many that I don't even care to count them. I do smoke a lot, but I am trying to cut down from 12 or so to just six bowls a day, maybe less. This however doesn't mean that I want less pipes. I will probably continue to collect them till I quit or die. I just love a new pipe.

ha, Im the total opposite! I have about 10 briar pipes but mainly just smoke cobs; I rotate all day through 5 of em. I cant stop collecting tobacco though!!! Had to pickup a few tins of rustica yesterday, and also had to buy a few other tobaccos to make the free shipping!

 

[Chasing Embers]

How many runs does each pipe get in a year?

Mine get smoked 70-100 times before switching but I do smoke them 5-6 times per day. More so if work is slow.

 

[falconsmoker]

I currently have a Falcon stem and four bowls in rotation, another stem and four bowls in reserve. I usually smoke early mornings and late evenings. All four bowls get smoked regularly, sometimes multiple times a day on weekends.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

7 pipes and one tobacco blend from a local tobacconist. Probably too many pipes…lol!!

 

[warren]

How many runs does each pipe get in a year?

I've no way of figuring that. I suppose I could start a sheet, list the pipes and put a "tick" marl each time I smoke one. But, why in the world would I or, anyone else do such a thing?

 

[jpmcwjr]

The proportion is just fine! 80-100 pipes, smoke on average 4-5 bowls a day. Rotation is down to about 30 pipes.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I've no way of figuring that. I suppose I could start a sheet, list the pipes and put a "tick" marl each time I smoke one. But, why in the world would I or, anyone else do such a thing?

It'd just be easier to scratch a mark into the side of the pipe each time you smoke it. Ha ha.

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

Alot of pipes and a fairly sizeable cellar relative to my rate of smoking, which is 2-3 times a week.
Call me not a dilettante!

 

[mso489]

Proportionately, my number of pipes is huge. I have ninety some pipes, despite three or four cullings. I smoke a bowl a day, sometimes none, sometimes two, but usually one. My stash of tobacco is large for my smoking habit. This is attributable to a number of gift pipes, two from Forums members, and my own pleasure in moderately priced U.S. factory pipes and mid-price pipes in standard brands, and to my buying just enough tobacco in small amounts so it accumulates. I find the disproportion a little annoying when I sit back and look at it, but the pleasure outweighs the annoyance.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I don't see a correlation. After 4 or 5 pipes, it's more about wants than needs.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

I have five pipes, all cobs, all in rotation. And I smoke about 2 bowls a day lately. I've been smoking pipes about three years now (though I was smoking a little clay with straight rustica a long time before that). I have been focusing on finding the tobaccos I like best, not so much the pipes. They were just the way of exploring. But now I'm finally figuring out that I seem to be a straight burley person, so I'm beginning to pay more attention to the pipes, so I can see the number of pipes going up soon, and the number of smokes per pipe going down--at least until I start figuring out which pipes I like best.

 

[mso489]

Diction Dick: By the olden times standards of word choice, there is different usage of fewer and less. Things that can be counted -- people, pipes, and so on -- when there is a lesser number are said to be fewer. If something is more abstract like enthusiasm, liquids that aren't being measured, and such, you say less. There is less water in the lake. There are fewer boats on the lake. All that being said, broadcasters making ten million a year say it "wrong," so I guess I can too. But I thought I'd mention this quaint old rule of word choice.

 

[sablebrush52]

Small.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

It takes over six months to get through my pipe rotation now, not including Cobs.
I assume most people are going to have a one or two week pipe rotation.

 

[timelord]

50+ ? I gave up counting them when I had 30. Do I need that many? Nope but I like collecting them.

I don't have a regular or timetabled rotation, I just pick a pipe I feel like smoking. Most days I typically smoke 4 or 5 times a day... ...but... ...I do often smoke the same pipe twice as do all my smoking outdoors and don't want to carry more than a couple of pipes with me.

 

[timelord]

Diction Dick: By the olden times standards of word choice, there is different usage of fewer and less. Things that can be counted -- people, pipes, and so on -- when there is a lesser number are said to be fewer. If something is more abstract like enthusiasm, liquids that aren't being measured, and such, you say less. There is less water in the lake. There are fewer boats on the lake. All that being said, broadcasters making ten million a year say it "wrong," so I guess I can too. But I thought I'd mention this quaint old rule of word choice.

Supermarkets in England used to have 20 items or less lanes for fast checkout. After much ridicule most now have 20 items or fewer lanes.

I know I often make grammatical errors but I do appreciate it when people point it out (well, providing they are polite and not rolling around on the floor in fits of laughter whilst calling me blithering idiot - a technique much favoured by my late step mother).