At least I'm old is right. I don't get depressed over it, but, in many ways and over a myriad of roiling issues, I'm quite happy that I'm as old as I am. The world isn't friendly to those of us with a pronounced libertarian bent. Live and let live. We choose to enjoy tobacco and we should be left alone to indulge our desires.
How Much To Cellar
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I feel good where my cellar sits. It takes a sale anymore for me to make a large purchase. I miss the 20% off store wide days.
I just keep buying more than I need. The tobacco will accumulated. Too much math for me to try to figure out how much I'll need. I'm guessing I have around 27 years left from when my uncles and my father passed away. But I'm worst when it comes to taking care of myself, so it has good chance of being early.
How Much To Cellar
as much as you can! Better to much than to little... ?
as much as you can! Better to much than to little... ?
I put away 20 years worth, at least I hope I did. Seems like more when I look at it.
Like the old saying goes, A guy can never have enough tobacco, guns, ammo, high end scotch, etc., etc., etc., on and on, ad infinitum...
At your funeral, let them comment about how much tobacco you had accumulated and how they have no idea what to do with it. Some closet smoker will raise his hand and tell them he'll take it off their hands. That's how I started pipe smoking when my father-in-law died.
Seriously, when you said you were smoking Cosmic mixture, I really thought you were smoking a blend that our very own @cosmicfolklore made. I asked you about it in another thread but I guess you didn’t see it (maybe you blocked me? Haha) I’ve never heard of this blend until you brought it up.
Man! Man oh man! Seriously! Hahaha, I think you could have made a good stand up comedian. I mean I dunno how it would come through in real life but your posts are very articulate and I always get a good hearty chuckle out them. It’s never too late!
I sweat too much to do stand up. Comedy isn’t pretty.
BTW, I’m not producing any commercial blends. If there is one called that, it’d probably taste funny, ha ha.
See, my bigest fear isn’t running out at this point, but what will be left behind. All that crap I bought early on... when I am gone they’ll look at what’s left that I didn’t smoke, and say, “he really loved the hell out his Molto Dolce and Hobbit blend.” And, I’ll just spend eternity tossing and turning in my hole.
As the comedian Louie Anderson said:
” Forgive me for sweating otherwise I would explode”.
The answer to your question is "All of it"! Collectively, we should be buying the entire stock for our cellars and merely trading amongst ourselves until we shuffle off this mortal coil.
The calculations are pretty simple and once you have the formula it's simple head math to determine what you will need to have in your cellar:
The average pipe holds 2.13 grams of tobacco in my collection but for the sake of argument I rounded the calculations up to 2.5.
A small pipe (group 3) will hold an average of 1.5 grams
A medium pipe (Group 4) will hold an average of 2.0 grams
A large pipe (Group 5) will hold an average of 3 grams
If you have an average mix of small, medium and large pipes in your collection the average smoke will be 2.5 grams.
2.5 grams x 365 days is 912 grams.
912 grams is 32.19 ounces or 1 pound.
SO, 1 pipe a day = 1 pound per year. 2 pipes per day = 2 pounds per year and so on.
The pipe capacities above come from 16 months of (enjoyable) research by weighing every single bowl I smoked prior to drying with a scientific grade scale which has an accuracy to 0.01 grams.
Sorry...... I'm a Stanford Nerd, it's a curse....
The average pipe holds 2.13 grams of tobacco in my collection but for the sake of argument I rounded the calculations up to 2.5.
A small pipe (group 3) will hold an average of 1.5 grams
A medium pipe (Group 4) will hold an average of 2.0 grams
A large pipe (Group 5) will hold an average of 3 grams
If you have an average mix of small, medium and large pipes in your collection the average smoke will be 2.5 grams.
2.5 grams x 365 days is 912 grams.
912 grams is 32.19 ounces or 1 pound.
SO, 1 pipe a day = 1 pound per year. 2 pipes per day = 2 pounds per year and so on.
The pipe capacities above come from 16 months of (enjoyable) research by weighing every single bowl I smoked prior to drying with a scientific grade scale which has an accuracy to 0.01 grams.
Sorry...... I'm a Stanford Nerd, it's a curse....
This is a good realistic estimate.Others who estimate 3 g per bowl is overestimating. Then they always round up at every step, so the eventual result is overestimated by a factor of 2 or 3.
My approach is different but leads to the same kind of numbers. I count the bowls from each tin, and calculate a statistical average.
The amount of entertainment I get by doing math may be shocking to some.
My approach is different but leads to the same kind of numbers. I count the bowls from each tin, and calculate a statistical average.
The amount of entertainment I get by doing math may be shocking to some.
The calculations are pretty simple and once you have the formula it's simple head math to determine what you will need to have in your cellar:
The average pipe holds 2.13 grams of tobacco in my collection but for the sake of argument I rounded the calculations up to 2.5.
A small pipe (group 3) will hold an average of 1.5 grams
A medium pipe (Group 4) will hold an average of 2.0 grams
A large pipe (Group 5) will hold an average of 3 grams
If you have an average mix of small, medium and large pipes in your collection the average smoke will be 2.5 grams.
2.5 grams x 365 days is 912 grams.
912 grams is 32.19 ounces or 1 pound.
SO, 1 pipe a day = 1 pound per year. 2 pipes per day = 2 pounds per year and so on.
The pipe capacities above come from 16 months of (enjoyable) research by weighing every single bowl I smoked prior to drying with a scientific grade scale which has an accuracy to 0.01 grams.
Sorry...... I'm a Stanford Nerd, it's a curse....
You have to account for all the tobacco that ends up on the ground after packing a bowl.