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cosgringo

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 17, 2019
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CO Springs
Welcome aboard! Texas or Georgia might be calling your name. Colorado Springs is expensive!
Damn straight. Thank God I bought and paid off my home in a handful when I was still useful. These days it's the darn upkeep and car taxes. Really- $500 registration a year for my 4Runner?
 
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cosgringo

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 17, 2019
242
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CO Springs
Welcome from the SF Bay Area. I'm in kind of a similar situation. Not working right now. Just driving a bit for uber/door dash. I have found that even with money a bit tight i can pipe pretty well. I would say my monthly pipe/tobacco purchases have been averaging about $150 a month and i don't feel deprived. And that's half what i was spending buying a pack of Black American Spirits every day!
So true. I am lousy at budgeting as I never had to until VERY recently. I was thinking of starting up some ride service for extreme weather and well- charge a ton. I have the vehicle for it so might as well but we don't get enough 6+ snows lately.
 
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cosgringo

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 17, 2019
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CO Springs
Welcome, I'm also from Colorado Springs. Is Stag your local go-to?
Yes- I am not sure there's another. I realize there's a club like one near downtown but I am not sure that would be worth it.
Frankly- I am cheap lately and have been buying online. I can find more selection.
THOUGH- they did turn me onto Dorchester which I do quite like.
 

cosgringo

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 17, 2019
242
261
CO Springs
Welcome from central N.C. I think your budget will prefer pipes to cigars. One tin of premium pipe tobacco will give you twenty average size bowls at the price of one or two up-market cigars. Forums has members who smoke mostly artisan pipes, some made on commission, and the finest tobacco, and others who smoke mostly or only cobs and bag and pouch tobacco, and everyone in between, with no snobbishness going either way usually. Whatever you can afford, enjoy, and can get your hands on. Some make their own pipes, some with few tools. Welcome again, and have fun.
Thx- I think I went a tad over the top last evening and caught my comeuppance. I guess I am still a bit stirred up from being zapped down too young.
 

peregrinus

Lifer
Aug 4, 2019
1,205
3,794
Pacific Northwest
Hope the weather is good out there. Snow or rain?
Rain or drizzle is always a great guess this time of the year but is just “gray” out today.
We seldom get snow, a few times a year at most. The weather pattern that brings rain comes in from the Pacific Ocean and this is relatively warm air. The weather pattern that brings freezing comes down from the north and it tends to be dry. It is the rare occasion that these two patterns collide over us that we get snow.
 
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Fooberticus

Might Stick Around
Dec 14, 2019
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I lived in Fort Collins for a few years, really miss that clean Northern Colorado air and beautiful sunrises/sunsets. Alas, I had to leave for Silicon Valley and now Pittsburgh for work. Hoping one day to make it back there, maybe live off grid like Sam Elliot... I mean Kola :col:
 
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cosgringo

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 17, 2019
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261
CO Springs
I lived in Fort Collins for a few years, really miss that clean Northern Colorado air and beautiful sunrises/sunsets. Alas, I had to leave for Silicon Valley and now Pittsburgh for work. Hoping one day to make it back there, maybe live off grid like Sam Elliot... I mean Kola :col:
I missed a chance to move there when I was with HP. I like Fort Collins also. Plus- not far from Rocky Mtn Natl Park and some other great spots
 
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cosgringo

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 17, 2019
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CO Springs
My darn connection crashed- was gonna say besides how wonderful Fort Collins is- there are some wonderful wooded areas outside Pittsburgh. I've backpacked out there when once upon a time. Some nice rivers out there.
 
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