maggid_1
Age : 58
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Posts : 22
Location : Tulsa, Okla
|  Subject: A fine cellar  Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:30 pm | |
| Indeed, a very well organized cellar and well stocked, congrats on a job well done.
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Tennessee Dave
Age : 57
Joined : 12 Feb 2008
Posts : 156
Location : Dayton, Tennessee
| | Subject: Re: TJ's Cellar Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:12 pm | |
| Awesome cellar!  |
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thefes
Joined : 18 Apr 2008
Posts : 9
| | Subject: Re: TJ's Cellar Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:43 pm | |
| | TJ - Forgive a question from a novice here. I notice that only a few tins come with an actual manufacturers date stamp. For the rest, do you just date them from the date of acquisition? It seems to me that in some of the more out of the way tobacconists things have already potentially been on the shelves for years. I suppose there is no way of knowing if the tins aren't stamped. |
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Wet Dottle
Joined : 27 Feb 2008
Posts : 138
Location : Littleton, CO
| | Subject: Re: TJ's Cellar Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:36 pm | |
| Hey! Thomas, want to come by my place and organize my cellar? 
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thomas james
Italian Stallion
Joined : 09 Dec 2007
Posts : 1258
| | Subject: Re: TJ's Cellar Fri May 02, 2008 5:00 pm | |
| Wet Dottle,
Didn't mean to ignore you.
I haven't had access to a b&m for about 30 years. Everything I have cellared has been bought on line and should be relatively new stuff. Everything is dated with the acquisition date. I just started doing it about five years ago and got into the habit with each purchase so it really wasn't much of a project. If something is obtained in trade from a member here and has a date on it, then I go by that date. I keep everything seperated by blends. Every year or so I will "pull" one tin of each blend and constitute a "rotation." I just trudge through them one at time after taking them out of the "cellar" and seperating them. As I "pull" a rotation, I validate my inventory list. Takes about two hours every year or so. I then systematically replace the pulled tins in order to maintain the aging process. I pull the oldest tin of each blend for a rotation. If a new blend is tried and liked, I will buy 10 or so tins and add them to the cellar. If something is opened that I do not like, only rarely, I'll trade away the entire inventory of it. This has only happened twice that I can remember. Both times it was aged virginias that just sweetened up too much. I am a type "A" "OCD" person, probably the most advanced case here. "Stuff" is aging much faster than I can smoke it. On the bright side, I have never been afflicted with pad. I only have 19 pipes. Of course, they are in a systematic anal rotation too.
Like everyone else here, "it" just happened. Woke up one day and it all appeared out of the blue.
The BEST to you. Welcome aboard.
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jhuggett
BoB's Pioneer & Founding Father
Age : 36
Joined : 09 Dec 2007
Posts : 1018
| | Subject: Re: TJ's Cellar Fri May 02, 2008 5:17 pm | |
| | Quote: | | Of course, they are in a systematic anal rotation too. |
Umm... never mind I'll leave it alone.
Filling in for 
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thomas james
Italian Stallion
Joined : 09 Dec 2007
Posts : 1258
| | Subject: Re: TJ's Cellar Fri May 02, 2008 6:04 pm | |
| Left myself wide open on that one.
Damn!
Did it to myself.
Damn!
I'll get it straight.
Damn!
In a tight spot here.
Damn!
Sure hope it brings out of the closet. Miss his ass.
Damn!
Thanks  .
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jeepernick
Mud Flaps
Age : 33
Joined : 13 Dec 2007
Posts : 282
Location : Good o'l Kantuk
| | Subject: Re: TJ's Cellar Sat May 03, 2008 3:57 pm | |
| TJ, Just remember it is better to be anal retentive than anal expulsive!   
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