It is the most beautifully presented tobacco I have ever come across.
Monthly Spend?
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Hahaha The responses here are fascinating. It's a hobby, after all, and the way we spend seems unrelated to need, even if it were assumed that we need to smoke 10x daily. I'll tell you one thing though - I have exceeded my tolerance for lousy pipes whose only attraction was that they provided a non-committal entry into an uncertain new interest. I'm certain and committed, and my expectations are higher now, so my monthly spend is going up, unless some of you want to buy some crappy pipes. I can inflate the price if it makes you feel better about the purchase.
Entirely depends on how you look at it. For some its just something they do, for me its about nicotine. Excluding pipe tobacco, I also have been putting away vacuum sealed cigarettes and chewing tobacco for when I could no longer afford them.
Haven’t really got one , just varies from month to month.
If I had been offended I wouldn't have bothered with an answer. One gets a ton of intrusive questions daily, telemarketers, children, the rude, the curious, and so forth. I very rarely get offended when people let their curiosity over-ride good manners. Curiosity is tough to internalize I find. I've made the error myself much as try not to. I usually start such inquiries with, "Please excuse my impertinence but, what did you pay for your car/horse/camera/etc." Sometimes you just gotta ask I suppose.
Euros 250- 300 per month. Some particular month 500 euros. For the moment everything in general tobacco, of course habano cigar, and corn pipes, tool and some favorite lighter. Next year, I'II try to buy a couple of briar pipes............
So, right now I am accumulating the shapes I prefer because that's what makes me the most satisfied. Since I don't know enough to appreciate a good pipe from a poor one, shape is all that matters. In the past month I've spent $100 on two estate "author" shaped pipes, and $21 for a vintage mid '70's MM Freehand.
Yesterday a Mastercraft (Mastercraft - Pipedia ) $16 for a COL. HENRY FRASER LOVAT. Colonel Henry Fraser Lovat (France) - Very Keen on Pipes (vkpipes.com)
My last tobacco acquisition cost $14 from a local tobacconist.
I bought 600 Diamond wood matches for $3.
Besides their custom blends, the local shop carries MacBaren tobaccos and I am thinking about getting a tin. Not sure the cost, but probably $12 or so.
So far, it has been much fun learning from the seaconed members here and also the histories using Pipedia.
Yesterday a Mastercraft (Mastercraft - Pipedia ) $16 for a COL. HENRY FRASER LOVAT. Colonel Henry Fraser Lovat (France) - Very Keen on Pipes (vkpipes.com)
My last tobacco acquisition cost $14 from a local tobacconist.
I bought 600 Diamond wood matches for $3.
Besides their custom blends, the local shop carries MacBaren tobaccos and I am thinking about getting a tin. Not sure the cost, but probably $12 or so.
So far, it has been much fun learning from the seaconed members here and also the histories using Pipedia.
Probably $200/month on average. Knowing when enough is enough is going to be the hard part, as I'm sure it is for many here.
Likely we all spend differently depending upon each's situation. However, I think a lot of us who have recently joined this endeavor to sustain the culture? will spend more in the beginning as they accumulate experience.
I think pipe smoking has helped keep me alive because it has provided a relief from stress in so many ways.
When I bought my first cob, I had no idea, I had only recently returned to tobacco smoking, and that was ryo and after about yet another 5 yr quit. Once again...stress caught up with me.
In desperation, I smoked a cigarette. It seemed to help. I was rolling from an old batch of Drum or OHM that i'd kept hanging around. When I could get those papers that came with Drum, I was ok, but I was still not happy inhaling burnt paper.
I decided to go get a cob at the drugstore and within a month I found this forum and learned so much!
Nowadays I buy tobacco only, and only once or twice a year typically, in bulk, and about $200 at a time.
I live on a fixed income, within my means, and that too helps with stress relief.
I think pipe smoking has helped keep me alive because it has provided a relief from stress in so many ways.
When I bought my first cob, I had no idea, I had only recently returned to tobacco smoking, and that was ryo and after about yet another 5 yr quit. Once again...stress caught up with me.
In desperation, I smoked a cigarette. It seemed to help. I was rolling from an old batch of Drum or OHM that i'd kept hanging around. When I could get those papers that came with Drum, I was ok, but I was still not happy inhaling burnt paper.
I decided to go get a cob at the drugstore and within a month I found this forum and learned so much!
Nowadays I buy tobacco only, and only once or twice a year typically, in bulk, and about $200 at a time.
I live on a fixed income, within my means, and that too helps with stress relief.
Estervals has been my downfall every victory spurs me on to order another.I now salivate at the sight of an Estervals box with its orange tape that says fragile glass, don't touch, go away.
Not sure. In the last 3 years though probably in the range of $7-8K between everything I have. Pipes, tobacco, cleaners, accessories, etc, you name it. I don't think that's too bad. However I could have saved a lot of money by just buying some corn cobs and PA for the rest of my life.
I might have spent $200 on tobacco since January of this year. And that may be shooting high. I just don't need or want anything. I don't buy pipes or tobacco on a whim. I'm well stocked on tobacco and supplies. I have more great pipes than I can keep up with. My humidor is brimming with good cigars........ What in the world are you guys spending $100-$1000 a month on?
So, it's your natural state of being. I can understand that.If I had been offended I wouldn't have bothered with an answer. One gets a ton of intrusive questions daily, telemarketers, children, the rude, the curious, and so forth. I very rarely get offended when people let their curiosity over-ride good manners. Curiosity is tough to internalize I find. I've made the error myself much as try not to. I usually start such inquiries with, "Please excuse my impertinence but, what did you pay for your car/horse/camera/etc." Sometimes you just gotta ask I suppose.
This. Plus, for my own sanity, I don’t total the amount. Ever.
I've written before, "Always expect the worst from people. You will never be disappointed and sometimes, infrequently, pleasantly surprised." Rudeness, a lack of manners, are all part and parcel if human interaction.
I don't understand why some spend small fortunes on pipes and/or tobacco. I kinda understand treating an expensive pipe as a handmade work of art, therefore justifying a high price tag, and I can understand stocking up on your favorite blends so you never have to worry about them getting discontinued or having to smoke them fresh or with altered recipes, etc. But I don't understand the massive cellars and hoarding more than could be smoked in a lifetime.
I smoke 3 "average" (group 4-5ish) sized bowls a day. Sometimes more. At that rate it takes me about a month to smoke through 2oz. If I average out the prices of the few pipes I buy each year by month, not including the first year of overexcited impulse buying, and the few tobacco purchases from b&ms and online retailers, I'd say it would be around $25 per month.
Even at that lowly pittance, my cellar continues to overflow any space it occupies, and my pipe racks are loaded with pipes I wouldn't part with. I feel a certain shame when I count my pipes and multiply that number by even the lowest price I've paid for one.
I admit, I've never commissioned a pipe, or even purchased a >$200 pipe. And I've certainly never paid scalper prices for tobacco (even though I've managed to acquire several unicorns, I've always traded on their retail value) but I have more great pipes and tobaccos than I know what to do with, and I think I'd be set for a good 6 or 7 years if I couldn't acquire any more for whatever reason.
I smoke 3 "average" (group 4-5ish) sized bowls a day. Sometimes more. At that rate it takes me about a month to smoke through 2oz. If I average out the prices of the few pipes I buy each year by month, not including the first year of overexcited impulse buying, and the few tobacco purchases from b&ms and online retailers, I'd say it would be around $25 per month.
Even at that lowly pittance, my cellar continues to overflow any space it occupies, and my pipe racks are loaded with pipes I wouldn't part with. I feel a certain shame when I count my pipes and multiply that number by even the lowest price I've paid for one.
I admit, I've never commissioned a pipe, or even purchased a >$200 pipe. And I've certainly never paid scalper prices for tobacco (even though I've managed to acquire several unicorns, I've always traded on their retail value) but I have more great pipes and tobaccos than I know what to do with, and I think I'd be set for a good 6 or 7 years if I couldn't acquire any more for whatever reason.
Spending on the addiction is another of its forms, especially when you know you're spending too much and can't stop.
My budget is $150/week for hobbies, which pipe smoking is for me at this point in time. Sometimes, that whole $150 goes to a SP order. Other times my motorcycle or aquariums may need some financial loving.
Warren, forgive me for being nosey, but how much were your K1's this year? I am quite sure that can't be intrusive, but you might find it to be so. Or were a 1099 guy, and have to pay quarterlies? If you feel I am being nosey please let me know and tell me to piss off.
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