What do you spend in a month?

You are making a smart move...getting what you can get while it is still available...if/when they put an end to internet sales of tobacco it is gonna look like a fire sale...so stock up now not some time in the future...you may find you are out of luck by then.

I for one don't want to know !

It's kind of like similar threads on an airplane owners and pilots forum I hang out on... When we tally it all up and then try to justify the expense of maintaining and caring for a plane, along with the hangar, insurance and fuel, let alone the acquisition costs, it rarely makes sense on paper. ;-(


Much the same story here...

thebriarpatchforum.com/thread/3354/acquisition-disorders-all-pic-heavy

When I got back into piping, about 2 1/2 years ago, I had one pipe and one pouch of Borkum Riff. I'd conservatively guess that the pipe total is now upwards of 140 to 150 pipes and close to 150 lbs or so, taking this months acquisition of 45 lbs or so.

I truthfully don't want to know how much I've spent thus far. ;-)

Probably $100-200 a month, no more than that, though.

can't help at present. At one time had over 30lbs. No purchase since '07. At my age, can't see that much ahead, presently 4lbs unopened, around 2 lbs open. Still plenty to enjoy

Ed Duncan, 78
Batavia, NY

I really don't have a budget for tobacco now, I probably have more than I can consume before the Grim Reaper taps me on the shoulder.



About four years ago, I set a budget pretty much where you are at Highwaycobbery, and it put me in the sweet spot for cellaring blends that I knew would be in my wheelhouse by their genre, and I am there....I will pick up a few pounds here and there, watch city's blends are definitely on my radar, but at this point I am pretty content with what I have.

My grandpa had a single medico or Grabow, and bought Prince Albert a tin at a time, and he was more of a contented soul than I am....something to be said for that.

In the past month I have bought.

20 tins Doblone d'Oro

20 pounds of Stokkebye Balkan Supreme

5 pounds of Luxury Bullseye Flake

5 tubs of Angler's Dream

2 500g bags of Grasmere

2 500g bags of Glengarry

4 250g boxes of 1792 Flake

6 1 pound boxes of Old Dark Fired

5 pounds of Sutliff Match Elizabethan

10 tins of D&R London Dock

1 tub Captain Black Grape

I'm also in a position where I should never need more, but man there were some great sales this month!

Prohibition was an immediate act, they have decades of anti smoking propaganda behind them and a majority of tobacco haters to back them. 

Try smoking in a bar. They lose no revenue if they legalize one smoking substance to abolish another.

I spend under $50 a month on tobacco, and then it is usually just replacing a couple of tins I've finished off. My cellar is very small with maybe a total of 12 lbs. so I'm pretty much set for 5 or 6 years.

I haven't bought any tobacco in at least three months.  It takes me forever to get through a pound of tobacco.  I don't ever buy tobacco in pounds.. 8 ounces is a huge purchase for me.  I have lots of jars.. However, most of them just sit.  The tobacco ages nicely.

On the one hand, my wife is ok with the fact that I haven't bought a new pipe (she bought me one for my birthday) or a lot of new tins (what she doesn't know won't hurt me). But now she is questioning whether I needed a new hat. I told her to relax, the hat was way cheaper than a new pipe.

Spending probably $200/mo. Slow and steady. Last summer had about 5-6 lbs and now around 26 lbs. 40 years worth is a lot of tobacco! If I was going to do that it would be close to 750 lbs assuming 5 bowls a day or about 1 oz.

Geoff, I run about 4 bowls day which is probably an annual tobacco burn rate of 10-15 pounds. I therefore have about 2 year supply on hand. I am nearly 70 and expect I'll be smoking for the next 10 years. So I probably need another 40-50 pounds anyway. But I'm not worried about it. A lot of folks here think tobacco will be completely outlawed, but I don't expect that to be the case. It will certainly get more expensive over time. However if I deplete my cellar, I'll just get more of whatever is available. I enjoy a variety of blends.