How Long Does It Take You to Smoke Through a Tin?

[americaman]

I saw some talk about hoarding, etc., and I largely ignored it, and then seeing people saying they buy loads of tins and then go back to purchase more (which I have no problem with), but it got me thinking:

How long does it take you to smoke through a tin?

One week? Two weeks? Do you dip in every once in a while and it takes you months? I think it took me a week or two to smoke through my first tins of Escudo and Carolina Red Flake (a sign that I liked the tobacco), but other than that I have several tins open at a time that I dip into here and there. I’m sure there have been similar threads in the past, but I’m just curious.

 

[ashdigger]

I smoke between 8 and 10 bowls on average a day.

Having said that I rarely smoke one of anything back to back to back, unless I’m traveling.

A few weeks ago I popped a tin of Windjammer and I smoked it straight through.

It took two days to smoke it.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Like 4 months, hahaha. I smoke about a bowl a week or so. Sometimes 2, sometimes 0.

As a result I have like 200 jars of opened tins.

Aside from Penny farthing, SPC PP, and McClelland VAs I probably don’t smoke a blend twice in any given year.

 

[Rockyrepose]

Like 4 months, hahaha. I smoke about a bowl a week or so. Sometimes 2, sometimes 0.

As a result I have like 200 jars of opened tins.

Aside from Penny farthing, SPC PP, and McClelland VAs I probably don’t smoke a blend twice in any given year.

This ^

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I'll have 8 to 10 tins open at a time. Probably run through them in a month or so.

 

[ray47]

I've got so much tobacco that a 1.5 oz tin could last me 2 yrs.

 

[Worknman]

I feel like a tin lasts for a very long time, probably six months to a year or even longer. I have about 40-50 jars in the rotation though.

 

[Jwebb90]

On average a tin lasts about 10-14 days for me.

 

[peregrinus]

I smoke on average 2 bowls per week with some weeks 3 bowls and some weeks 0 bowls. I have bulk FVF and SJF’s as my basic smoke along with a number of open 4oz tins and many jars.

All this translates to any additional open 50g tin may last years.

 

[glub]

I'll open a tin of my current go-to's every 3-5 weeks (currently Capstan Blue & Escudo) with another tin or two monthly as I finish off a jar or need to top it off, on average. So ~ a tin/week, apparently?

I jar all my opened tins and have cut myself off from buying additional jars, so I'm at 32 opened & bulk tobaccos currently.

 

[biz]

I've got some that are open 8 to 10 months. I usually have about 8 different tobaccos going at once.

 

[mso489]

I think I have about twenty jars, pouches, tins, and tubs open at a time, and maybe some stray samples in baggies, so a tin once opened can last for a year or more, and hopefully it gets jarred. I have had blends that I enjoyed enough to finish up, selecting them every third smoke or so. I may have finished off some of those in a month or two.

 

[augiebd]

It varies wildly, two weeks to two years. Right now I have about twenty tins opened and stored in jars and am not opening more until these are finished. Will take some time at my current pace of 3 bowls a week. The pace picks up when I am on vacation. When I clean up the mess of tins I have open I plan to only have 2 or 3 tins open at a time. Want to try consistency for a while to see how I like that compared to a different tobacco every bowl.

 

[Ahi Ka]

It varies wildly, two weeks to two years. Right now I have about twenty tins opened and stored in jars and am not opening more until these are finished. Will take some time at my current pace of 3 bowls a week. The pace picks up when I am on vacation. When I clean up the mess of tins I have open I plan to only have 2 or 3 tins open at a time. Want to try consistency for a while to see how I like that compared to a different tobacco every bowl.

Easy. Send me all your open stuff and I’ll send your three sealed ones

 

[augiebd]

Easy. Send me all your open stuff and I’ll send your three sealed ones

Thanks, you are always ready to help me out, I appreciate it! The ‘baccy will be in the post tomorrow. I’ll combine it all in one mylar bag to reduce shipping!

 

[F4RM3R]

Don't really smoke tins per say as I smoke homemade whole leaf blends, but it's about a tin a week, 3-4 bowls a day. I try to keep only 3 or 4 different blends going at one time as too much choice and I feel like I'm just juggling jars around.

 

[workman]

I'd say I smoke about a tin or pouch a week on average.

 

[karam]

A typical European tin is 50g or 100g, my pipes take between 2-3g of tobacco, my largest around 5g so that's - assuming 50g tins - 10-20 bowls per tin. I smoke 3-6 bowls per day.

There's no way to predict how fast a tin will go. The tins I smoked through the fastest were 100g Old Dark Fired (dead in two weeks), and 57g Bayou Morning Flake (dead in a week). The longest, and still going, is a tin of SG Black XX, been open for 1.5 years, still have 3-4 bowls' worth left.

 

[jewman22]

A long, long time, as I have about 15 aromatics, 9 virginias, 4 burleys and about 17 english all on the go at any given time.
Lately I've been having 1 bowl a day Monday to Thursday, and 2 to 3 Friday through Sunday.
So my guess would be a few months at least, as I rotate through everything, rarely smoking the same blend more than once a week.

 

[gervais]

I have about 40 open blends i dip into. Once I get through them I might just go one tin/jar of each genre open at a time. It'll make deciding what to smoke alot easier, because sometimes it's hard to choose when you're looking at 40+ of them at once. Lol.