AimlessWanderer
Remember to forget me!
I don't hoard pipe tobacco. I'm a buy as you go type person. I did go overkill with snuff though, particularly during the EU TPD fiasco, and ended up with a snuff hoard I might never finish. It all cost peanuts though, and I was picking up 500g tubs for £15 at one point.
Pipe tobacco is WAY more expensive over here, with NO discounts for buying in bulk. I have neither the cash nor the intention to repeat what I did with snuff. I already feel like enough of an idiot for having done it once. However, some of the snuffs have aged/mellowed quite nicely, and I'm toying with the idea of aging a little pipe tobacco WITHOUT hoarding.
As an occasional smoker, I might only buy the equivalent of four or five tins per year anyway. I wondered if it might be worth vac packing four or five tins, with a slip of paper saying "to be opened in 20xx". The question is, what date should go on it?
If 5 years, then this year I'd be buying for 2025, and next year I'd buy for 2026, so I'm never buying more than two year's tobacco in a year, and only till the first vac pack is opened. Then I would only be buying for the future, as I'd already have the stuff to smoke that year. The other option would be to age half that, so I'm consuming half aged, and half fresh.
Any thoughts? Anyone else got a system for ageing without hoarding?
I've also got doubt in my mind as to whether I'll still be smoking in five years, and what my tastes might be. I don't know what food I'll want to eat tomorrow, let alone what I might want to smoke in five years. A minimalist tobacco time capsule helps lessen potential waste due to future lack of interest or being hit by a bus or global pandemic.
Pipe tobacco is WAY more expensive over here, with NO discounts for buying in bulk. I have neither the cash nor the intention to repeat what I did with snuff. I already feel like enough of an idiot for having done it once. However, some of the snuffs have aged/mellowed quite nicely, and I'm toying with the idea of aging a little pipe tobacco WITHOUT hoarding.
As an occasional smoker, I might only buy the equivalent of four or five tins per year anyway. I wondered if it might be worth vac packing four or five tins, with a slip of paper saying "to be opened in 20xx". The question is, what date should go on it?
If 5 years, then this year I'd be buying for 2025, and next year I'd buy for 2026, so I'm never buying more than two year's tobacco in a year, and only till the first vac pack is opened. Then I would only be buying for the future, as I'd already have the stuff to smoke that year. The other option would be to age half that, so I'm consuming half aged, and half fresh.
Any thoughts? Anyone else got a system for ageing without hoarding?
I've also got doubt in my mind as to whether I'll still be smoking in five years, and what my tastes might be. I don't know what food I'll want to eat tomorrow, let alone what I might want to smoke in five years. A minimalist tobacco time capsule helps lessen potential waste due to future lack of interest or being hit by a bus or global pandemic.