Tell me about your struggles with PAD

[scooterdoo]

So, PAD has hit me hard. I've bought 4 pipes this month (2 today), totaling ~ $400.
Tell me some of your worst PAD stories. I want to feel better about myself/I think it would be fun to just chat about some ridiculous purchases.

 

[sparrowhawk]

Easy: I couldn't afford it anymore. Now, if an abundance of money is your problem, I'm willing to accept any surplus funds...

 

[cortezattic]

Just a few hours ago I popped a couple hundred for a figural meer. I was motivated by the art work more than by the need for another meer to smoke. It's OK with Mrs. Cortez (aka. Shoe Lady), so I'm guessing there'll be another pair of open-toe pumps on the way too. :rofl:

 

[scooterdoo]

if an abundance of money is your problem, I'm willing to accept any surplus funds...

Not an abundance, more like just enough to be able to buy too many pipes without my wife throwing me out of the house.

 

[mso489]

It's a little like falling in love, or maybe it is. When you behold the desired pipe, your whole world revolves around it, and when you go on to other things, it keeps circling back on you. You feel that if you just buy the pipe, you'll never want another, and your whole sense of wellbeing is focused on buying that pipe. Once you do that, the whole cycle repeats itself, until they find you in the gutter wrapped around a BC bent billiard. Or name your pipe.

 

[timt]

I saw the road leading down the PAD path and I pulled myself together and said, "but I have so many pounds of tobacco to buy!"
After buying a dozen or so decent briars that are traditional shapes - nothing oddball and ranging from $60 to $120. I made a decision to by a meer for a couple hundred, then another meer for a little more. They're not ornate, just a straight smooth apple and a straight smooth billiard. I like to think I'll be content with this set up and really like being able to smoke the crap out of my meers without any concerns and watching them color over time. My briars don't see a lot of action.
I don't count the cobs. The shire cobbit is nice though, I must say.

 

[artvandelay007]

Luckily this hasn’t hit me. I’ve just been buying a ton of tobacco.

 

[seanv]

Pad is tough man. I’ve gone through it but lately I’ve been suffering from a bad case of tad lol

 

[jon11]

Said I was stopping at 100 but have 106, 107, 108, and 109 in the mail right now. Can’t shake the PAD

 

[pianopuffer]

I recently picked up both of these Jerry Crawford pipes, a Lovat (my favorite shape) and Canadian, last week. Did I need them? No. Did I want them? Absolutely. They both fit my criteria in terms of specs and aesthetic. Haven't gotten around to smoking them yet since the weather has been so crummy here on the East Coast, but they will soon enough.
PAD is a strong force, resist as we might. I've been shifting my focus to more tobacco accumulation rather than pipes, but I feel these two obsessions go hand in hand.

 

[josephcross]

I said I wasn’t buying anymore pipes.... until I saw Lightmybriars post where he was selling some vintage Dunhills. Everything was going swimmingly till I saw the part about inquiring for other years....now I have a birth year on the way.

I’m thinking this never ends.

 

[cwpiperman]

Total struggle. I have both PAD and TAD, ever since I started as a piper in June of this year. Started out with a Savinelli Rusticatd Venere bent, a, some MM pipes (2), including a Country Gent. This exploded to more Savinellis, including 2 Roma 673KSs, a Quandale Prince, a longer ChurchWarden Prince, a Bones Bent Brandy 3, a couple more MMs, a Meer (lattice) and finally my most recent purchace, a Radice Rind Pure "Faux Bamboo" billiard type, which I'm currently smoking with some C&D Oak Alley. As far as TAD, I have been trying a GAZILLION different blends in 50g tins, and some in larger sizes (read: Black Frigate, Potlatch and Oak Alley). It's.....a blast. I think I've got a great cellar started (including blending tobaccos, which I have been sampling straight in small amounts to educate my palate as to what each smells and tastes like).
Enjoy
CW

 

[josephcross]

CW, you reminded me that I also have a Bones Apple on the way that I snagged from SPC unsmoked.

 

[eggrollpiper]

I like to think as time goes on I make better decisions with my acquisitions of any kind. I try not to be impulsive or persevere and wait as long as possible so I eventually forget about it and find a new object of desire. If a year later I find myself still wanting a certain pipe then it mb time to pull the trigger on it. Although if my funds were not so limited that would all go out the window I suspect.

As for tad, no such thing. I mean unless your throwing out your bed and fridge to make more room for mason jars it's all good...

 

[Briar Baron]

I have been fighting PAD for years. I sometimes do OK for a few months and then have a breakout
Currently there are two in the post coming this week....resistance is futile.

 

[mikethompson]

lets all take a seat, shall we?
What keeps me in check is finances and the fact that I really can't enjoy a pipe as much as I'd like. That keeps TAD in check too. I don't have a pipe rack either, so space is limited as well.

 

[briarbuck]

Here's what I did. I commissioned a pipe that will deliver next year. It is a significant purchase but is still much less than buying a bunch of "nice" pipes. That also gives me something special to look forward to.
Scratches the itch and it's worked (so far)

 

[mso489]

I sent five pipes in socks with some tobacco samples to Chaplain Jim at Bagram Airfield. Now if I can evade the impulse to replace those. Then there are always the gift pipes; I can't deny those! I think this brings me to about eighty pipes, though I dread to actually do a census. I hope it is some fewer, but I doubt it.

 

[5star]

The cure for PAD . . . is TAD.
After acquiring plenty of production pipes, I decided that my next pipe will be a custom artistan one. I could have purchased several custom pipes with the money I spent on the PAD production pipes that I bought. - - The only exception I make is for the occasional MM cob. I don’t really need another cob either, but that compulsion usually costs me less than $10 so its not too bad.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Cannot afford buying any descent pipes right now,instead I'm focused on replacing factory made chubby stems with the new better German made ones ones,this is pretty ridiculous,because its been quite often when the bowl and drilling was performed more or less satisfactory but these original factory stems have left a lot to be desired,most often this has been an issue with my low-medium and or even higher priced French made pipes.