Secret Pipe Santa 2016

[Haebar]

If you are interested in participating in a Secret Pipe Santa gift exchange please read on. It's a little late to start this up, so act with haste. It will be just like in previous years:

Signups will run through Saturday, December 10th; gifts should be mailed by Saturday, December 17th (International friends will need to account for the added time in both giving & receiving, please).

Participation is simple: each Secret Santa will send a minimum of two tins or four bulk ounces of tobacco to their Christmas Pipe Smoker. Anything beyond that is up to Santa. When adding your name to the list please:

*specify what type of blends you would prefer to receive and whether or not you are alcohol (must be over 21), cigar, snuff, or sweets friendly just in case Santa wants to include something extra!
*Also, please specify if you are willing to ship Internationally.

Once you've added your name and Christmas list to thread, please PM your address to me (Haebar) using the title "Secret Pipe Santa". I will use MS Excel to randomly pick Secret Santas and assign them to a Pipe Smoker.

As with all Secret Santas, you must have been around long enough to be known here and/or have one positive and no negative trader feedback.

A new thread will be created for tracking numbers to be posted, holiday banter, photos of gifts, etc.

Above all, remember that this is supposed to be fun and its purpose is to GIVE. :santa:

And, of course, Happy Holidays! :santagrin:

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[BryGuySC]

If we get some more guys, I'm in.

[Haebar]

If we get some more guys, I'm in.

We really only need 3 people to make this work. But more is better.

[Tombstone]

1. Haebar
2. BryGuySc (pending more signups)
3. Tombstone - I enjoy long walks on the beach, holding hands with a big hairy... I mean Virgina Perique blends tend to hit the spot, also love Pipes and Cigars Snow Drift and Peaches. Conus shipping only, Booze/Cigars are welcome. I am still exploring the pipe so I am open to trying new things.

[Haebar]

1. Haebar - I like all types of tobaccos, but especially VAPers and English blends. Also open to cigars, alcohol, etc. Will ship to the US and Canada.
2. BryGuySc (pending more signups)
3. Tombstone - I enjoy long walks on the beach, holding hands with a big hairy... I mean Virgina Perique blends tend to hit the spot, also love Pipes and Cigars Snow Drift and Peaches. Conus shipping only, Booze/Cigars are welcome. I am still exploring the pipe so I am open to trying new things.

[BryGuySC]

I'm in! I'll update my "dating profile"when I get back home! :-)

[BryGuySC]

1. Haebar - I like all types of tobaccos, but especially VAPers and English blends. Also open to cigars, alcohol, etc. Will ship to the US and Canada.
2. BryGuySc - I love Vapers and lat-heavy English blends. Craft beer and bourbon are also enjoyed. These are just my favs, and certainly do not preclude anything you'd like to send. I'll give anything a shot! Prefer Conus shipping
3. Tombstone - I enjoy long walks on the beach, holding hands with a big hairy... I mean Virgina Perique blends tend to hit the spot, also love Pipes and Cigars Snow Drift and Peaches. Conus shipping only, Booze/Cigars are welcome. I am still exploring the pipe so I am open to trying new things.

[Haebar]

Nature has agreed to randomly assign secret Santas and will be contacting each of us sometime tonight with the assignments.

[Nature]

You all should have received a PM with your designated Secret Santa Kid
BryGuySC Haebar Tombstone

Let me know if you didn't get something.

[BryGuySC]

Time to start packing!

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[Tombstone]

Waiting on a few things to arrive. Then Santa will let his sleigh loose.

[Haebar]

Time to start packing!

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Is that a tank or an artillery vehicle?

[BryGuySC]

Is that a tank or an artillery vehicle?

It's my local USPS driver! ;-)

jk. I think it is a tank.

[Tombstone]

My mail man throwa packages from the street to the porch on a regular basis

[Haebar]

When you open your Secret Santa package on Christmas eve or Christmas, be sure a post a picture of your gift here on this thread. Not saying you have to wait until then though.

[BryGuySC]

Mine showed up today! Deciding on if I can wait till Christmas or not!

[BryGuySC]

I got some beer in me last night, and the willpower disintegrated! I couldn't wait.

Tab blew me away!

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I got tins of:
Dunbar
Margate
Dunhill Deluxe Navy rolls
Dunhill Elizabethan

And bulk bags of:
McClelland 5110
C&D Poplar Camp

Aaaand:
2 MM cobs
a bent briar pipe (I think Caledonia. I'm at work and don't remember)
3 lighters (all different, and pretty neat)
3 tamping devices
softy bits
a roll-up baccy pouch
pipe cleaners

You've blown me away Tab. Thank you for your generosity.

[Tombstone]

9405503699300452556161 in the mail tomorrow

[BryGuySC]

We have liftoff!
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[Haebar]

BryGuySC - The black lighter is refillable with butane; I use mine until the flint wears out.

[Haebar]

You all should have received a PM with your designated Secret Santa Kid
BryGuySC Haebar Tombstone

Let me know if you didn't get something.

Thank you for assigning Santas for us Nature! Merry Christmas!

[BryGuySC]

BryGuySC - The black lighter is refillable with butane; I use mine until the flint wears out.

Those are some pretty cool lighters. It's neat that the middle pulls out of the black one to tamp cigarettes.

[AlanS]

Yuck, did you say cigarettes. I aint had a fag since April of 1997. Too many better things to smoke!

[BryGuySC]

Yuck, did you say cigarettes. I aint had a fag since April of 1997. Too many better things to smoke!

I agree. I've never smoked a single cigarette.
I was just commenting on the uniqueness of the lighter.

[Haebar]

Those are some pretty cool lighters. It's neat that the middle pulls out of the black one to tamp cigarettes.

When you say middle, do you mean the flint/striker assembly? It pulls out so you can replace the flint. The Linse lighter flame head pops out so you can adjust the angle of the flame for pipe lighting.

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[Haebar]

My Secret Santa package arrived today from Tombstone and it has some of everything!
He sent me a bunch of cigars, pipe tobaccos, pipe cleaners, pipe tools, candy, and a Stanwell butane pipe lighter!

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Here's what he sent me:
*Half Pipe Corona
*Nica Puro Robusto
*Cifuentes Partagas Toro
*Aging Room box pressed Toro
*Alec Bradley Maxx
*H&H Ambassador's Blend
*H&H AJ's VaPer
*Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bulls Eye Flake
*G&H Louisiana Perique Flake
*H&H Delta Days
*H&H Frenchy's Sunzabitches
*tin of Russ Ouelette's Fire Storm
*Borkum Riff Pipe Tool
*Rockwell Pipe Tool
*Hydrostone humidifying stone
*Package of 100 pipe cleaners
*Stanwell Butane Lighter
*Two boxes of Chocolate Truffles
*Bag of Werther's Original Candies
*Candy Canes
*Skittles and Whoppers

Thanks for your generosity and thoughtfulness Ryan!
I've had my eye on that lighter for some time now!
This gift blew me away!

Merry Christmas Ryan!

[Tombstone]

My Secret Santa package arrived today from Tombstone and it has some of everything!
He sent me a bunch of cigars, pipe tobaccos, pipe cleaners, pipe tools, candy, and a Stanwell butane pipe lighter!

http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah50/haebar/Cigarbum%20002_zpsg9qnudri.jpg
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Here's what he sent me:
*Half Pipe Corona
*Nica Puro Robusto
*Cifuentes Partagas Toro
*Aging Room box pressed Toro
*Alec Bradley Maxx
*H&H Ambassador's Blend
*H&H AJ's VaPer
*Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bulls Eye Flake
*G&H Louisiana Perique Flake
*H&H Delta Days
*H&H Frenchy's Sunzabitches
*tin of Russ Ouelette's Fire Storm
*Borkum Riff Pipe Tool
*Rockwell Pipe Tool
*Hydrostone humidifying stone
*Package of 100 pipe cleaners
*Stanwell Butane Lighter
*Two boxes of Chocolate Truffles
*Bag of Werther's Original Candies
*Candy Canes
*Skittles and Whoppers

Thanks for your generosity and thoughtfulness Ryan!
I've had my eye on that lighter for some time now!
This gift blew me away!

Merry Christmas Ryan!


Your very welcome. My wife actually helped pick a lot out. She is way more knowledgeable about pipes and such than I am.

[Tombstone]

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BryGuySC

Thank You very much for the great assortment of gifts. I kinda feel like you were peeping in my window, making a list, checking it twice. All the those tobaccos are new to me with the exception of Viprati. The dice were my wife's favorite color so I will probably never be able to use them. The bullet tack put a smile on my face and now I got me a fancy corn cob, I will feel like a high class bum when I light it up. I look forward to checking every thing out. I will have to try my hand at some pipe reviews and such. Thanks to all the Pipe bums and for having a pipe specific pass.

[BryGuySC]

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BryGuySC

Thank You very much for the great assortment of gifts. I kinda feel like you were peeping in my window, making a list, checking it twice. All the those tobaccos are new to me with the exception of Viprati. The dice were my wife's favorite color so I will probably never be able to use them. The bullet tack put a smile on my face and now I got me a fancy corn cob, I will feel like a high class bum when I light it up. I look forward to checking every thing out. I will have to try my hand at some pipe reviews and such. Thanks to all the Pipe bums and for having a pipe specific pass.

Glad it got there intact.
The Deep Hollow is from 2010, and has been in the jar several years.
The Standard Mixture was opened and sampled at Thanksgiving. I wasn't going to send it since it had been opened, but I had room and figured more tobacco is always better!