Getting PAD under control: possible or delusional?

[Tim_McD]

I think that I may be nearing a end or at least a plateau in my PAD.

I have settled into thick walled bent stemmed pipes; basically bulldogs, Rhodesians and apple shapes. I have a couple of outliers (a churchwarden and a cherrywood shape), but day-to-day I have found pipes that suit my smoking style.

All that is left is a meerschaum in one of those styles and maybe on of those funky Tsuge tankards / blowfish pipes to ya know, mix it up.

I think that just those two items will make the voices stop. It won't quell the search for the one pipe tobacco to rule them all; my one, my only, my precious

 

[the_edski]

There will always been one more pipe, just over the horizon. It will beckon to you when you least expect it....

 

[Hangten]

There will always been one more pipe, just over the horizon. It will beckon to you when you least expect it....

+1,000.

 

[Bk124tt]

They say admitting you have a problem (of any kind) is half the battle.
I have a problem..........and its still not going away.....
Pad, rad its all bad!

 

[Hangten]

They say admitting you have a problem (of any kind) is half the battle.
I have a problem..........and its still not going away.....
Pad, rad its all bad!

You won't have a problem if you obtain everything you need....then what's left. So go get what you need!

 

[oc_in_fw]

There will always been one more pipe, just over the horizon. It will beckon to you when you least expect it....

I thought my Tinsky would be it- now I want a seven day rotation of them.

 

[the_edski]

I thought my Tinsky would be it- now I want a seven day rotation of them.

See this, gents? THAT is true dedication!

 

[jiminyshiznit]

I've fallen, and I can't get up.

 

[Commander Quan]

There comes a point when it slows down. For a while, in the beginning you're like a kid in a candy store. Lusting after 27 different pipes, and need to try every type of tobacco out there.

Then you realize that you can get estate pipes for cheap, and they can be just as good as a new one so you fill up your watch list on ebay, and by now you've found a couple tobacco blends you really like so you buy them in bulk. (You tell yourself it's to age them but in reality it's encase there's an economic collapse, or we go to war with England, Denmark, or North Carolina and you can't get those blends anymore.)

Eventually you have enough tobacco to last you and you're grandchildren through an apocalypse, and you have enough pipes that you forget about ones you have, and when you find them their like new pipes to you again, and somewhere around that point you realize that your good.

Except when you go in the pipe shop and there's that one that catches your eye, and you justify it to yourself that it's ok because you haven't bought a pipe in a while, but in reality you have, you just didn't tell your wife about that one it so it doesn't count.

 

[jiminyshiznit]

Eventually you have enough tobacco to last you and you're grandchildren through an apocalypse, and you have enough pipes that you forget about ones you have, and when you find them their like new pipes to you again, and somewhere around that point you realize that your good.

Crap, I'll have to go back and find that "realize you're good" thing you mentioned.. it's gotta be in here somewhere!

 

[Hangten]

Crap, I'll have to go back and find that "realize you're good" thing you mentioned.. it's gotta be in here somewhere!

For some that moment came and went like a cooler full of tobacco tins....

 

[Tim_McD]

Well, the honesty is overwhelming - I am lying to myself about my need to acquire new pipes.

The two posts from Blade Boy in the Pipe O' The Day section got to me, too - but I cannot act on my impulses. We are going to the House of the Mouse in FL next week and Mickey's white glove is going to be shoved so far up my.....wallet that I wont be able to sit comfortably for quite some time.

Stockpiling tobacco is another matter - because I was reading some fiction earlier this week and in the post-apocalyptic wastelands, tobacco was a valuable commodity! I am planning for my family's future, I am so responsible that I continually quality check the stores and lay in new supplies

 

[Hangten]

That's it... Prepping the BL way! Whatever lets you sleep at night!

 

[jiminyshiznit]

Yep.. I figure when it all goes zombies, I'll have plenty of whiskey and tobacco to trade for a shotgun and shells.. my stockpile is much more enjoyable in the meantime.

 

[oc_in_fw]

Stockpiling tobacco is another matter - because I was reading some fiction earlier this week and in the post-apocalyptic wastelands, tobacco was a valuable commodity! I am planning for my family's future, I am so responsible that I continually quality check the stores and lay in new supplies

That means that Blade Boy and Price will be our new overlords

 

[Tim_McD]

That means that Blade Boy and Price will be our new overlords

No kidding, if there was a fire at one of their places, the fire dept would let it burn because it would smell awesome

 

[oc_in_fw]

No kidding, if there was a fire at one of their places, the fire dept would let it burn because it would smell awesome

Some may disagree- I think Aaron may be a bigger Latakia freak than me .

 

[brother cavefish]

I am good myself

 

[conroygc]

I went on a crazy eBay binge and bought like 20 estate pipes to clean up, most of them very cheap pipes. That settled PAD for me since I feel like I shouldn't buy a new one until I clean all those up.

Also, I ran out of money.

 

[tattooed]

I was on the verge of buying everything within reach until it dawned on me that I should go about this like I did with razors. Find what works and what I enjoy and use it forever. I've been trying to apply this to everything I enjoy. Cars, guns, gadgets, etc. Something about a pipe that is mine and shared a lot of experiences with is far cooler to me than whatever the grass is like on the other side. Within reason, nothing wrong with occasional new add.