Lots Of Open Tins

[huckleberry]

I have probably, 75+ jars, from 1/2 Pint, which will hold 2 oz of Tobaccy, to 1 gallon jars, which will hold 1.25 lb. of tobaccy....all depending on the cut of the blend.

I do have them labeled pretty good so I know what they are, but there are a few "unknowns."

Maybe I'll get it straightened out this upcoming Winter, at least I'll give it a shot...

 

[AcesAndEights]

I can't tell you how encouraging this pic is! I have maybe 10 or 15 tins opened and jarred because I only smoke maybe four or five bowls a week, but I always want to try to the new arrivals. Now I can open tons more!

Love this forum. “Encouraging” is spelled the exact same as “enabling” here, and I’m all for it!

 

[JRW11b]

Don't worry about it. Its your tobacco. Open what you want and smoke what you like. Eventually you'll find what you really prefer and then you'll begin to cellar those particular blends. When I was getting started, everything I bought was opened because I wanted to try it. Now I've got an ides for what I really like and have started slowly cellaring those particular blends. Enjoy. Have fun. Don't over think this. Its supposed to be relaxing! Take care...

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

At one point I had over 75 mason jars in my cabinet, but I've slowly been smoking them down to just over 50 at the moment. In my venture to eliminate some of my jars I've found blends that I forgot about and have really enjoyed, and blends that I didn't enjoy which is why I buried them in the back of the cabinet.

 

[Scriptonic]

I don't like having many tins open. I try to keep it under 8, right now I have 10 open tins/jars. To help combat this I keep my cellar of tins and jars in some waterproof storage totes in our storage locker. I think combined I have about 180 tins/jars in there.

 

[ThermionicScott]

I've got, let's see... 20 open jars, totalling a little more than a pound. Some of them are straight blending tobaccos like red Virginia, dark Burley, Perique, Dark-Fired Kentucky, etc.

Inside of us there are two wolves: one wants to keep the jar count small, the other wants to try more blends!

 

[Lumbridge]

I always have a tub of codger blend going and a few other staples, such as Newminster Navy Flake and a decent black cavendish. Beyond that, I don't like to open more than 2 or 3 tins at a time (or jarred bulk that I'm working through) . This forces me to take my time getting to know the blends and learning to appreciate things that don't click at first, rather than sampling and moving on, sampling and moving on...

 

[jpmcwjr]

Two years ago I had over 15 jars and tins in rotation. Now under 7 and happier.

 

[starrynight]

I've got, let's see... 20 open jars, totalling a little more than a pound. Some of them are straight blending tobaccos like red Virginia, dark Burley, Perique, Dark-Fired Kentucky, etc.

Inside of us there are two wolves: one wants to keep the jar count small, the other wants to try more blends!

Yeah, I think Hesse wrote a book about that…

 

[B.Fee]

Hmm i have a few i smoke from … i was too lazy to do a good job labeling so paper tape it is, there are 2 or 3 mystery jars as well.

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Looks like my cabinet.

 

[TexJake]

I can relate, I have probably 50 or so 1/2 pint jars at various levels of full. They disappear rather slowly but I keep at it… this chore I’ve created for myself … I try to maintain some kind of balance between spending time with a specific blend to find the right pipes and situations that work best and keeping my curiosity and interest in other flavors alive. It used to be a source of internal frustration, even bordering on self shaming, but I have come to terms with the fact that I enjoy the variety and will not allow this thing that I enjoy to become another source of overbearing structure.

 

[Michigan_Bill]

I have 18 open jars at the moment. When I started smoking about 2 years ago I tried different blends to see what appealed. Some forum members made suggestions and one even sent me some samples (thanks again! You know who you are.) So the number built up.
Then I got Covid last October and it changed my sense of taste. The blends which previously were favorites tasted terrible. But two blends which I had disliked, now tasted at least acceptable. As time goes on, those two have begun to taste better and better, and the former blends are improving, slowly.
So my point is that having the open jars was a benefit because I had the two blends to fall back on. Who can say what life will throw us next? I'm glad I have my open jars, and when my sense of taste fully returns I will be spoilt for choice.

 

[brandaves]

Tobacco cellar says I have 76 opened containers at the moment . I don't doubt that number for a moment. I have loads of unopened blends I've never even sampled. Oh well. My 401T is appreciating well.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

I won't let myself open any other tins until I blow through some of these jars. This is after giving away a bunch of jars with blends i didn't care. I reckon its a good problem to have

 

[mso489]

Whoa, I have a plenty of tobacco, but nothing like that. I'm a moderate smoker, a bowl or two a day, sometimes none, and I buy just a few tins or baggies at a time, but I buy more than I smoke, so it accumulates. I tend to just "shop at home" and discover what's good that I forgot I had. I like most genres, but burley is my weakness.

 

[Piping Abe]

If you have only bulk tobaccos and store in mason jars then technically every jar can be opened and enjoyed. So theres no need to worry about how many open blends you have. They are always bulk, once opened!

 

[mbmoehl]

I have 18 open jars at the moment. When I started smoking about 2 years ago I tried different blends to see what appealed. Some forum members made suggestions and one even sent me some samples (thanks again! You know who you are.) So the number built up.
Then I got Covid last October and it changed my sense of taste. The blends which previously were favorites tasted terrible. But two blends which I had disliked, now tasted at least acceptable. As time goes on, those two have begun to taste better and better, and the former blends are improving, slowly.
So my point is that having the open jars was a benefit because I had the two blends to fall back on. Who can say what life will throw us next? I'm glad I have my open jars, and when my sense of taste fully returns I will be spoilt for choice.

I may have had Covid over the winter without knowing it. Everytime I was sick I tested negative, but my taste was off. I didn't realize my taste was as bad as it was until a week and half ago when blends started both smelling and tasting better.

 

[ThermionicScott]

I may have had Covid over the winter without knowing it. Everytime I was sick I tested negative, but my taste was off. I didn't realize my taste was as bad as it was until a week and half ago when blends started both smelling and tasting better.

It might not have been Covid. My sense of smell has taken a serious hit every winter that I can remember. It's just recently that we've started freaking out when we notice it.

 

[Zamora]

I made my first tin purchases over a week ago, I bought four tins and I still haven't popped any of them open because I need to buy some half pint mason jars to put them in and some tape to label. I'm not in a particular rush because I have plenty of bulks and codgers to smoke plus a full Tupperdor of cigars.

 

[wyfbane]

I feel that. I have at least 60 of the tiny jam jars with partials in it, as well as larger jars of open this and that. I think it is the way of the modern pipe smoker. lol