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dog_park_piper

Can't Leave
Jun 15, 2021
485
3,295
The Woodlands, TX
Has it happen to you?

You are about to click "buy" on a pipe more expensive than your means should allow and, instead, you go outside and smoke a corn cob and realize just then that you just needed a smoke?
 
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OzPiper

Lifer
Nov 30, 2020
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31,689
71
Sydney, Australia
Has it happen to you?

You are about to click "buy" on a pipe more expensive than your means should allow and, instead, you go outside and smoke a corn cob and realize just then that you just needed a smoke?
That is your subconscious trying to save you from yourself?

The time spent smoking the cob allows you to re-evaluate whether that expensive pipe is truly necessary ?

Of course it is ! Why procrastinate.
You know you're only going to obsess about it until you pull the trigger.
So save yourself some angst. Don't over-think. Just DO IT (buy that pipe) ?

Sorry, I'm really not helping, am I ?
 

dog_park_piper

Can't Leave
Jun 15, 2021
485
3,295
The Woodlands, TX
That is your subconscious trying to save you from yourself?

The time spent smoking the cob allows you to re-evaluate whether that expensive pipe is truly necessary ?

Of course it is ! Why procrastinate.
You know you're only going to obsess about it until you pull the trigger.
So save yourself some angst. Don't over-think. Just DO IT (buy that pipe) ?

Sorry, I'm really not helping, am I ?
You can help!

You can just buy it for me.


Thanks so much!
 
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jaytex1969

Lifer
Jun 6, 2017
9,524
50,676
Here
These days, when PAD strikes, I go to the shelf holding the two boxes full of pipes that I've not smoked, the "strategic reserve" and thumb through them.

Everything from cobs to Dunhills hiding in there.

If I still feel compelled to buy, I give it a second look, but it is getting less and less frequent.

I did recently buy a grudge pipe or two, after losing a small box of favorites during an interstate move.

I must admit, though, that my PAD rarely exceeds my means. TAD, on the other hand.....



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Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate
Nov 12, 2014
43,584
110,144
Has it happen to you?

You are about to click "buy" on a pipe more expensive than your means should allow and, instead, you go outside and smoke a corn cob and realize just then that you just needed a smoke?
SPC has an eight week layaway.
 
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PipeIT

Lifer
Nov 14, 2020
4,526
27,597
Hawaii
Pipes are cheaper than tobacco down under. So like, by giving into PAD rather than smoking a bowl, I’m saving money!

Hey wait a minute, if Castellos are cheaper than tabac, what’s your PayPal, so I can wire you some money? LOL ?
 
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