Days of pipes and no money are better than days of money and no pipes, or something like that… 
Rationalizing Spending A Lot On A Pipe?
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How I rationalize my pipe, pipe tobacco, and/or cigar purchases is... is the wife is going to kill me!!! If the answer is yes, then I don't buy it. LOL
Reading through replies here...this might be the absolute simplest and best serious advice I've seen.
We'll talk you into a pipe...but if that's what you're looking for then maybe that's not the advice you need.
The fact that you want to justify it, might, maybe, I don't know, mean,... convince your wife? Happy wife happy life.
This is something I think about all the time. I'm not a cheap person. But there's something about spending a lot of money on something like a pipe that stops me from doing it. I love all the artisan pipes I see on the forum. I'd love to have a Jack Howell bent apple or bent brandy. But spending a significant amount of money on any sort of "hobby" seems wild to me at times.
I play bass, and have done so for 25+ years. I have more than a couple guitars. I have two that are pretty expensive. I follow a lot of guitar stuff online and see guitars being sold for thousands of dollars to people that have dozens of guitars that all cost thousands of dollars. And many of them aren't professional musicians, just people that play as a hobby or collect guitars. It blows my mind. Anyway. This was a long way of saying I'll inevitably spend a ton of money on a pipe in the next few years.
I play bass, and have done so for 25+ years. I have more than a couple guitars. I have two that are pretty expensive. I follow a lot of guitar stuff online and see guitars being sold for thousands of dollars to people that have dozens of guitars that all cost thousands of dollars. And many of them aren't professional musicians, just people that play as a hobby or collect guitars. It blows my mind. Anyway. This was a long way of saying I'll inevitably spend a ton of money on a pipe in the next few years.
Rationalization is not the way. There is either do or no do, unless you get in dodo.
Possible scenarios, all of which I've done at one time or another:
1) I've just come into a lot of "extra" money. Someone died and left me money (very unlikely) or I've received an annual bonus payout.
2) I can scratch together the money somehow, and I've got a special occasion to commemorate -- something of lifelong significance. Starting a new job. Surviving major surgery. Birth of a child. Be creative.
3) I've made a bunch of extra cash by selling off a lot of less desired pipes, thinning out my collection. What better way to mark the occasion than to reward myself with a really desirable pipe? I'm just swapping several OK pipes for one great one.
1) I've just come into a lot of "extra" money. Someone died and left me money (very unlikely) or I've received an annual bonus payout.
2) I can scratch together the money somehow, and I've got a special occasion to commemorate -- something of lifelong significance. Starting a new job. Surviving major surgery. Birth of a child. Be creative.
3) I've made a bunch of extra cash by selling off a lot of less desired pipes, thinning out my collection. What better way to mark the occasion than to reward myself with a really desirable pipe? I'm just swapping several OK pipes for one great one.
Not yet. It is being sold on Ebay as an auction that hasn't ended yet. The part I'm rationalizing is how high to bid.
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If they could truly afford it would they have made a post about rationalizing the purchase? I think not.
I completely disagree. Rationalization of expenditures is as much about what we subliminally feel we shouldn’t do as it is about what we can’t afford to do. Those are two different causes of hesitation. Puritan guilt affects more than Puritans.
I could re-buy my whole pipe collection for less than a mortgage payment. Must have cheap tastes...
It can’t be rationalized. It can only be enjoyed. Or, not.
Sometimes an item just presents itself that you didn't think you knew you wanted until you accidentally opened up a page and saw it.
There's no real logic behind it. It doesn't do anything a $20 basket pipe can't do. Sometimes you just see something you want that is more expensive than the bulk of the heard and the price is what the price is. It's all a luxury at the end of the day and it's just a matter of making peace with that.
For sure, and I'm not out to judge anyone!
I just remembered, and should have mentioned, that we have a 15-year mortgage. That definitely skews how much a payment would buy!
yeah, it doesn't really make any sense. I wasn't even looking for a pipe (cheap or expensive) and recently procured an expensive-ish one.For sure, and I'm not out to judge anyone!
I just remembered, and should have mentioned, that we have a 15-year mortgage. That definitely skews how much a payment would buy!
For the context of this thread, it was roughly the price of 1 mortgage payment but it's also a small mortgage payment (I live a small life, no kids). The literal questions I asked myself was "Am I fine with setting this amount of money on fire? Yes? OK. Wife is fine with it? Yes? OK. I can live with that".
Don't get me wrong, I savor my (to me) several higher end pipes. But I have some great smokes out of nearly all of my pipes, including cobs, basket pipes, and econo-pipes of various kinds.
The fundamentals of a chamber and an airway properly drilled bring out the best in blends, no matter how much the pipe cost.
I still marvel at the quality of a Tsuge "tasting pipe," which I thought would have a small chamber and just adequate quality, at about thirty dollars. Instead the chamber is large-medium, the fit and finish is entirely Tsuge quality, and the delicate blast finish is kind of fetching, like pattern-woven fabric, nice.
The fundamentals of a chamber and an airway properly drilled bring out the best in blends, no matter how much the pipe cost.
I still marvel at the quality of a Tsuge "tasting pipe," which I thought would have a small chamber and just adequate quality, at about thirty dollars. Instead the chamber is large-medium, the fit and finish is entirely Tsuge quality, and the delicate blast finish is kind of fetching, like pattern-woven fabric, nice.