Tell me about your struggles with PAD

[josephcross]

Another thing that needs to be mentioned is; approximately 12:30-12:35pm Mon & Thurs west coast time, SPC releases their estate pipes. This causes lots of problems. I really try not to look...really.

 

[shanez]

My best example of PAD is ordering a Nording Freehand Estate and then, before it arrived, I ordered another Nording Freehand Estate.
I tell myself:
1) But the second one is not the same color as the first.

2) It was only $45. You couldn't afford not to buy it.
The things I tell myself...
Also ordered an estate meer with the second Nording. That's 3 pipes in about a week. :roll:

 

[prndl]

There is no such thing as "Pad".
I've bought a slew of pipes thru the years and I've never had no damn disorder.
8O

 

[scooterdoo]

I've bought a slew of pipes thru the years and I've never had no damn disorder.

The first step is admitting you have a problem. :nana:

 

[sablebrush52]

I have recovered from PAD. It can be done. At its height I was buying several pipes a month. Now it's maybe a couple of pipes a year. My biggest purchase, from a numbers standpoint, was a collection of 14 pipes, but it was also my best deal. A little over $400 yielded a family era Barling straight grain pot, a bunch of 4 and 8 dot Sasienis, a couple of Comoy Blue Ribands, a KB&B Rivoli, and a no-name. All of them were in excellent condition.

 

[owen]

Even when it goes it flares up from time. Visiting this site never helps.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Sometimes a long walk with a large bowlful will help, and then phoning a friend-or talking to a wife- who hates that you smoke at all....

 

[techie]

I don't think I mind a new disorder to go along with my others.

 

[ukbob]

I don't suffer with PAD ,reasons being lack of flaming funds at the moment.

 

[tschiraldi]

My rotation (I won't call it a collection) stays at around 20 or 30 pipes. My PAD affliction is that I'm always changing my mind. It started with factory pipes, Savinelli, Peterson, Icarus, etc. So the little devil on my shoulder says "You need to upgrade to fewer, but better pipes". Enter Castello, Sasieni, Comoy's, etc. Then he whispers "You have to baby these too much. You need some cheaper pipes you can abuse". On to Stanwell. But I couldn't bring myself to abuse them. They got babied as much as the higher grades. Then came my foray into artisan pipes... Jesse Jones, Mark Tinsky, Craig Cooper, etc. The little devil, never satisfied, then says to me "You don't like big pipes. You need to sell them and get some smaller ones". Okay, so I did. Just last week he comes with " All these pipes, but you haven't found any you love as much as that 1/8 Bent Brandy Jesse made for you. I think that's your perfect pipe!". So Jesse Jones is now making it's twin. Not identical, it will be darker completed than the tan blast. It never ends with me, it only changes. Hundreds of pipes pass through my hands, but the total stays about the same.

 

[wyfbane]

I have well over 200 pipes, all purchased in the last 6 years. I just created a post elucidating how my wife got me to stop buying them. It isn't a cheap solution, but it is soooo rewarding. lol

 

[workman]

I'm not badly PADed. I have 11 pipes, most of them low grade. I would like to have 12 higher grade pipes, one or two of them meerschaums. It's a process, but a slow and enjoyable one.

 

[jaytex1969]

I just defeated my PAD. I got some more tobacco.... :crazy:

 

[timt]

I just defeated my PAD. I got some more tobacco.... [:crazy:]

For a crazy pirate, that sounds totally reasonable.

 

[timt]

I would like to have 12 higher grade pipes, one or two of them meerschaums.

Love both my meers. They're always ready to go.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Tchiraldi, I'm hearing You,all this You told sounds pretty familiar to me,

 

[cwpiperman]

....resistance is futile.

This ^^^^^^
CW

 

[luigi]

My PADs have stopped at 10 pipes (in one and a half year) which is more than enough for me. When it will strike again I will probably count all the tobaccos I can get for that money and go for them.

 

[pastorpiper]

I'm in the middle of PAD right now. I've been a cob smoker who has discovered briar and loving the hunt.
I'm not going after big game hunting.....but good smokers (some no-names) some bargain ones.

I have 4 Dr. Grabows (old ones...Continential and Westbrooks that smoke great), a Savinelli pot, a Comoy, a Masterbilt, and 2 no-names (Lovat shapes each). All bought used (estates) in very good condition and smokers. My goal is to smoke all of them.....I'm not trying to buy for collecting/preserving.
I need to stop. I have way more than a rotation, and with a tendency for an addictive behavior, I need to restrain myself. This pipe thing can be a never ending rabbit hole.

 

[virginialover]

I found that the best way to get rid of PAD is to actually concentrate on smoking your pipe and not its beauty or "my precious" aspect of it. Also the tobacco you like is more important than the pipe since it will get more expensive, harder to find or even disappear. I'm selling all the pipes I'm not using as smokers, keeping the ones that make my favorite tobaccos sing.
Hope this helps.