Cleaning - you must be kidding

That's a good idea.

I clean with a bandana after every smoke.... And a pipe cleaner.

About once a week I take out rum and clean all my pipes with that too.

Its about bacteria but also buildup

Caking can get really bad and ruin a good pipe- you can avoid overreaming your pipes with a proper cleaning regimen.

I could kinda understand weekly cleanings, but I think daily cleanings qualify as "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" -- or OCD for short -- and there are treatments available. 

I only clean my pipes when they start giving me trouble.

Think how clean you'd be. You'd be cleaner than your pipes.

...if you are a piper who subscribes to the idea of "cake" in the bowl, then you have more maintenance than those who eschew the "cake" idea... not to mention... why do you want your pipes to look "brand new"? Why polish and fuss?" My body has all kinds of scars... so do my pipes.

Whatever floats your boat. Personally, I prefer my pipes clean. I'm not a fan of rancid stale tobacco oils, nor having what I'm smoking affected by the ghosts of past smokes. Yes, I know it's strange. But stink has never been a plus for me. I remember some years ago when I was in Montreal on business I had occasion to enter an elevator inhabited by five very elegantly dressed gentlemen, none of whom had encountered a shower in memory. Maybe they thought their body odor was a gift to the world, but the combined redolence severely challenged my ability not to violently hurl all over them. Fortunately for international relations, I managed to hold it down until I could exit.

I'm not quite as meticulous as once I was, doing a thorough cleaning at the end of a day's use. I sometimes let it go to the next day. But I have a practice that works for me, that keeps my pipes smoking sweetly, that minimizes the build up of a useless soft crumbly cake, and rarely requires much of a really deep cleaning. I smoke a pipe more than once a day, and occasionally even use more than one blend in it if I'm feeling really lazy. Shameful.

I suppose part of the reason for people's maintenance choices depends on why they smoke a pipe. If all one cares about is getting a good nicotine buzz then who cares if the pipe is as nasty as Typhoid Mary's nether bits. Nicotine passed through a sewer will still do its job.

I am most emphatically not a nicohcolic. I smoke for flavor and I love the flavors I can get from the various blends that I stock. Keeping my pipes in good, clean, working order fulfills that brief. If you prefer smoking oozing pustulent stink, rock on!

I don't clean my pipes. I snap my fingers and my wife cleans them for me and puts them back on the rack.   
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  Joe, may I talk to your wife for a second 🤪😜😜😂😂😂. You want dinner tonight....lol.

Gave my Grabow freehand a deep cleaning on Friday and forgot I did it. The first smoke in it was Brown Bogie. All I can say is, I should have burned a few bowls through it first. It got me!