Would you like to play a game?

I am hoping the rest of my life...I'm 76 presently.

Global Thermonuclear War?

My cellar will outlast me.

That was the first thing that popped into MY head. Movie "Wargames".

Oh, you were quoting WOPR.


As long as we're doing this ;

Gen. Beringer: Well hell, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it would do any good!

My cellar would probably last me at most a year..I'm probably the worst Chess player ever.

I thought this was going to be a thread about sick ways to kill people... I'm pleasantly surprised.

I did the calculation and worked out that it would be around 16 years.

Based on smoking roughly 2oz. a week and possibly living to 80 I would have about 20 lbs left over after my demise. 

Haha same here, except I don't know if I'd say I was ever "very good". I'm certainly out of practice now though; a few years ago I taught my eldest boy (he'd have been around 11), and the little bugger beat me on the 2nd game, and I did NOT let him win. Those odd moments of pride mingled with embarrassment..

As far as cellars go, I've been building one in an unintentional manner. This time around with the pipe, I've been buying tins to try many different blends, and jarring them up. So I don't have more than a few ounces of any one blend, but the stacks of jars are getting high. It's almost all lat/oriental blends, and I've definitely found some I do need to start cellaring in earnest. I was just in Boston and came home with many 1oz bags of Peretti's lat and oriental blends... very excited to try them!

In terms of time, I'd say I've got a few years worth "cellared". I only smoke a few pipes a week.

Twenty years probably at my current rate of smoking.

Well... you win the game. There wasn't any rules and wasn't win-lose. However, you won. Beautiful cellar!

I've done some actual calculating on this, when I was trying to figure out how aggressively I needed to stock my cellar.
The starting point is how much tobacco per bowl. This measurement makes a lot of difference. I took an average size bowl and a my largest bowl and packed them in a normal fashion with three different types of tobacco to work out the average. I settled on 2.5 grams or 0.088 oz. I built a model with 2-5 bowls per day and calculated tobacco consumption for each week using seven day weeks. Then calculated per year and with the value on how many pounds in my cellar, I know roughly how many years of tobacco I have for the 2 - 5 bowls/day. All this is in a spreadsheet so it is easy to manipulate the model with different variables.

While I'm sure this all sounds extremely nerdy, it was a fun exercise and told me I needed more tobacco! Imagine that.
As with any predictive model, there are a lot of assumptions. I have about a 90 percent degree of confidence in the model, which is close enough for me.
FWIW: My 60 lbs of tobacco will last me somewhere around 10 years at 3 bowls per day. If you want a copy of the spreadsheet, let me know.

Current state of the cellar in its temporary home in a basement closet.  We will see how things shake out after the big remodel project is complete.  Like kbareit, I've been at this accumulation for a year.  Note that this is a rather humble cellar compared to some who have been at it far longer.  

Very nice cellars folks! Glad I started back in 2013 when McClelland was in operation and all was well as far as buying tobacco goes. Happy with my McC stash...although probably most of the McC stash will go to Josh either as gifted or trade.