Opening a New Tin/Creating a Ritual?

[Kooky]

Title edited. See Rule 9.

What determines whether you open a special tin you've been saving, or create a ritual (like smoking the same more easily available blend every year on your birthday, holiday, special occasion)? Perhaps opening a special tin could be the ritual itself for certain days?

As today is my birthday, I will have to decide whether to create a ritual with bulk tobaccos or pop a special tin of this 2022 St. Patrick's Day reserve. Since I have two tins, I can age the other...

 

[TheWhale13]

I don't really have rituals. I smoke what I want to smoke when I want it. I would open my cellared stuff when I'd want it too. The only thing I'd save for a special occasion would be a cigar since I don't have many or like them as much as pipes.

 

[bullet08]

I've been smoking one form or the other type of tobacco for over 40 years now. Nothing ritualistic about my tobacco use.

 

[AcesAndEights]

I have marked a few special tins with “Do not open till 50th birthday.” A few gifts for my future self. But I haven’t gotten much more disciplined than that! It’s pretty random for me.

 

[LotusEater]

HBD
Smoke something special it’s your birthday.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Almost everyone who's been smoking for years has some aspects of a ritual, even if it's only tamping 2x after the first light, or twiddling of the fingers before loading.

You can set out to consciously create a ritual, but you may have to get to the point of doing something pretty automatically before it becomes embedded.

 

[seanv]

Smoke your favorite blends in your favorite pipes as often as possible. You never know when you're last day will be

 

[Chasing Embers]

No rituals here, just fill the pipe, light it, smoke it, dump it, clean it, repeat. My cellar is there to be smoked and any aging that happens is just due to the lack of smoking it. Smoking a pipe is little more than a cigarette that I don't have to be mindful of.

 

[dctune]

Smoke your favorite blends in your favorite pipes as often as possible. You never know when you're last day will be

There it is. Also, you never know when you’re favorite blend might no longer be available.

My aunt always eats her dessert first. She says that way if you choke and die during your meal, you don’t miss out on the best part. She’s a little kooky, but fun. And while dessert is not my favorite part of a meal, I think about her saying/doing that often. It makes me smile.

Oh, happiest of birthdays to you!

 

[condorlover1]

Everyone has a ritual - I would image the one for opening a tin of tobacco would not be so different from this one on flower arranging....

 

[skydog]

I enjoy cracking a McClelland Christmas Cheer every year in December. And I stocked up enough McClelland 40th Anniversary to crack a tin of it for my birthday every year. The other special tins in my cellar just get cracked when I'm in the mood. I think there is a balance between enjoying today and preserving some of your favorites as a present for your future self.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I believe we need a working definition of "ritual".

 

[Grangerous]

Pull the metal tab. Scoop with pipe. Lol. I guess I enjoy burying my nose in a freshly cracked tin. Who doesn’t?

Happy Birthday!

 

[telescopes]

Life is an endless stream of rituals, unconsciously performed or not.

 

[telescopes]

I believe we need a working definition of "ritual".

A series of actions that are repeated either before, during, or after a task.

I am amused that so many people deny the obvious.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I am amused that so many people deny the obvious.

For the same reason I'm amused how many deny pipe smoking as a habit.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Title edited. See Rule 9.

What determines whether you open a special tin you've been saving, or create a ritual (like smoking the same more easily available blend every year on your birthday, holiday, special occasion)? Perhaps opening a special tin could be the ritual itself for certain days?

As today is my birthday, I will have to decide whether to create a ritual with bulk tobaccos or pop a special tin of this 2022 St. Patrick's Day reserve. Since I have two tins, I can age the other...

Happy Birthday!

Prior to coming to this forum, I would just load a pipe and smoke. Now I suppose the ritual is I decide what I'm going to smoke and smoke it in, take a photo to post, then load and smoke.

 

[Staggerlee]

Every tin I open is special to me. To take that first whiff of tobacco and enjoy the wonderful tin note is always a treat, even with my everyday smoke. If I do get a truly special tin, say an out of production blend or just a hard to come by blend, I like to open it with some other pipe smokers and share it. That is when the best smoking experience takes place.

 

[jpmcwjr]

What a nice ritual!

 

[telescopes]

For the same reason I'm amused how many deny pipe smoking as a habit.

By habit do you mean addiction? They are two different things. .