Well, I must admit have made a few preparations...
I DO have a spreadsheet listing all my pipes, Brand, Date purchased, Description, Price paid and valuation, partly for insurance and partly for my kids so when I die they don't put a Dunhill Root Briar Dead Root ** on the garage sale table for 50 cents.....
Stupid kids.....
This always confuses me. Why would buying a pipe have to be justified with a spouse?
You're right, that's twice as much as they're worth.
Mine will likely just be thrown out.
?Naooooo!!! Not the Magnuuuum!!!
Wait until you see the Christmas pipe a buddy of mine made for me this year.?
I buy cheap ass pipes and I have no offspring on whom to unload them.
Once the genetically modified corn takes over, my unmodified bag of MM "seconds" could be the last, invaluable source of unmolested corn DNA essential to the survival of mankind...
Too soon?
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Wow, I wish! Something a little more local and Santa-like, deer antler.? I had been looking for someone to do surprise commissions with since Bruce retired in 2016. I set up a story for this fellow that ended with Santa sitting in a recliner smoking his pipe. I told him that whatever pipe he saw Santa smoking in that story was the pipe I wanted. My only request was that it had antler accents.....he knocked it out of the park!
+1
Indeed. No one has ever made real money "investing" in pipes. By real money, I mean enough to live off the proceeds. Carvers and dealers aren't really investors, by my book, at least.
