I was reading the Poschle air freshener story the other day and thought to myself how lucky I was to not have had any real spills with my snuff. Well today I decided to try Bespoke Gin and Tonic as it was in a plastic baggie for some reason I knew it would be quick and easy to try a pinch. Well after my pinch I somehow dropped the bag and spilled a lot of it out on my pants, my chair, and the rug below! So I had my first spill today, and I must say it is really depressing!

Yeah that is always bad, hopefully you were able to save a little bit. My first spill was a whole container of DeKralingse Pompador, and I was outside in the yard so there was no salvaging any of it. Welcome to the spill club!

I once managed to accidentally open my usual wooden snuff box inside my dressing gown pocket. At least I was able to retrieve most of the snuff, though it was a bit fluffy!

I did a similar thing lofat with Cope. But I was out duck hunting on a cold cold morning over near Yuba City. I was in the middle of this shallow pond hunting from a little island of reeds standing in about 3 feet of water. My hands were cold when I started to pack the can. I guess with the cold I didn’t have a good grip on the can because as I packed it, the can went flying out of my hands and as that happened I guess the lid caught my fingers and it flipped the lid off and I covered the pond in cope. Luckily I had two cans with me because I would always bring another incase 1 got wet. That was the same day that it snowed in Sacramento. But if you spill snuff you can pick it up with a balloon. Just rub the balloon to create static and you have a snuff magnet.

Ha ha Troutstroker - thank God it wasn’t Cafe Royale Snuff magnet? Interesting, my friends call me the Nutcase Magnet because of the girls I attract - Cute&Crazy I spilled an entire pound of Irish Dark High Toast, sent to me from Wilson & Sharrow. Some Royal Mail worker had apparently stepped/kicked/beaten up the envelope so badly, that the container was only held together by the paper of the envelope! When I opened the envelope - one pound (250g) of awesome snuff poured out on my kitchen floor covering me in DHT and decreasing visibilty in my flat to ca zero for a minute or so (love telling stories:) Wilson & Sharrow kindly replaced the container and apart from this accident I didn’t spill too much. Have a snuphphy day

I had a tight lid on a new tin of Wilsons Crumbs Of Comfort, it flew out of my grip and onto the floor. Yes it opened, I managed to retrieve most of it.

After hearing other stories I don’t feel so bad about the amount I spilled, so thanks guys! A few times I have dropped my can of Rooster but luckily the lid stayed on and nothing had fallen out. Thankfully as the can of Rooster holds 1.15oz. @Viking - Thank god you got that refunded, I couldn’t imagine losing a whole pound of snuff! Let alone the smell and mess in your place but that is alot of snuff to lose in one quick moment!

Dajawu - ha ha yes thank God Wilson’s always were very understanding to me - but it was really a nightmare when that happened! I’ve never seen anything quite like my kitchen floor that day Wilson’s sent me a replacement. It’s by the way a wonderful snuff, the Dark Irish High Toast. Smokey flavor and very nice grinding.

About spill… my snuffbox, (whit a load of santa caterina) opened accidentally in my pocket just right now, I’m already clen up the disaster.

I have not had any major spills, as of yet. There is the occasional I lose when filling my snuffbox or bullet, and sometimes when I’m careless about opening up the tin or something. It’s bound to happen eventually though, and I’m sure it’s going to suck… Heh. ~Snuffy

I spilled half a 10g can of cherry menthol in bed. I recovered almost all of it but when I was going to sleep I felt like I had put bengay on from the residue on the sheets.

thats why they say: thou shalt not snuff in bed. (i know a few people are doing that regularly. but i canot really imagine how it works anyway.)

I spilled about half a tub of robbies top mint snuff once when out walking the dogs - whilst holding the tub open by the hinged lid i some how managed to hit the underside /bottom of the tub with my hand while going to take a pinch, on the plus side it was only like 4 grams though so nothing to major.

I fell asleep reading this site once with a full tin of Toque on my knee that I hadn’t shut properly, all gone. I wouldn’t snuff in bed, it wouldn’t seem right. I also don’t like taking it out doors for some reason.

Outdoors is my favorite place to enjoy snuff. Taking a pinch on a cool early morning sitting on the deer stand as all the critters start waking up & moving around, or on the lake as the sun rises & the fish are jumping. Thats just heaven to me.

Well, thats one of the great things about snuff and probably why it’s such a viable replacement for cigs - you can develop your own rituals. My own are a bit less picturesque; I love a shot when I am first in the office in the morning and deciding what I have to do, with my tea at breakfast, with good liquor. When outdoors I don’t snuff but fiddle with my snuff box, rotating through my fingers like a rosary. Sometimes I like to just contemplate taking a pinch but not doing. Rituals…and I think they have saved my life, I must have had two cigarettes since June

I spilt half a tin of Kendal Brown once. Worst part was, it became a snuff I really liked. Unfortunately, with two cats, you can’t always picked stuff like that back off the carpet (I don’t want to try “Cat Hair Brown”), so I had to vacuum it away.

I just thought that I would bump this thread up with something that happened to me recently. I was working on my laptop with a opened tin of Toque Toffee at the side. I was on the computer manufactures and clicked for a bios update and immediately the CD/DVD drawer popped open and knocked my tin of snuff off the bench! It was asking for a CD-R or DVD-R to make a boot disk. I never bothered with the update, just cleaned out my small battery driven vacuum cleaner and sucked the Toque out of the carpet and put it back in the tin. The snuff is as good as ever, with perhaps a little household dust

I also worked on my Computer last week, a glass of milk standing on the floor between my legs. My snuff was landing directly into the milk, got some nice cherry snuff milk

Lol, Thats Different!

Yesterday having a tremendous hangover, I was going to fill up my snuff box from my supply in the fridge! A half pound can of WS Best SP catapults itself out of the fridge, lid spinning off, hits me in the stomach and bounces to the floor emptying itself onto my socks :o)))) What a morning!

Well I just had a big spill - not bad considering its only my second since I began snuffing a few years ago. I lost half a tin of Wilsons of Sharrow Apricot. Not quite sure what happened, it just slipped out of my hand. I managed to keep hold of the tin but a ton spilled all over my right leg and some went all over the desk. Its always painful to see that much snuff go to waste.

my last spill was a bunch of tom buck in the toilet. Didn’t even think of recovering it.

I’m having trouble with the Toque 25g tins. It seems every time I go to open the tin, there is snuff in the “threads”. It spills out all over the place. So I try and clean it out, and it just happens again. Maybe 25g tins not meant for the pocket?

Thanks Roderick, looking forward to my first order of Toque.

I’ve noticed that on my wilsons tins as well its prettty much impossible to not loose a little from what gets between the lid and the base.

Had 2 spills back to back this weekend both over the keyboard luckily not much lost.

That’s funny, my keyboard both at home and at work have a light coating of this wonderful brown powder as well.

I bet it did.

tapping the tin, sitting on my bed, not really paying attention, you get the idea. luckily I spilled less than half the tin and used my pipe tool spoon to scoop up the little pile. close call!

I have a Dustbug (little hand held vacuum cleaner powered by re-chargeable batteries). It’s dedicated for the spills and all what is sucked up goes back to the box.

My youngest son (4 years old) found an unattended tin of SP100. The lid was a little stiff so he had it in his hads on its side trying to open it. He managed to just as I went to grab it from his hands and the snuff went everywhere!

Sorry to hear that, it’s just a child thing. If you haven’t got a Dust Bug, then it’s hands & Knees and nose to the floor, LOL!

My first mishap of this nature occurred last nite with my last can of Wilson’s Raspberry as I was lying in bed reading. Lost half the can in bed with me, kinda messes up the sheets, and I won’t have any more for at least a month. Wuz no happy at the time, but this thread at least shows me I’m not alone.

@snuff head If the lid hadnt been so tight i reckon he’d have opened it, sniffed the contents and then put it back. Hey ho…

Welcome to the club Wildwilliam. If you never spilt a tin, then your not a true snuffer!

In my working days I had to drive down to Boston (the real Boston in Lincolnshire), no motorway and it was early morning and I was speeding, just over the tun. A tractor pulled out of a field in front of me, he didn’t register my speed! It was drop the full 25g tin of Hedges L260, grab the wheel and hard down on the brake. For a few days, until I got the car cleaned all I had to do for a sniff on L260 was stamp my foot on the cars carpet!

@ bish777, I don’t know. My Late Farther had a shop and he sold J&H snuff, and as a young boy I asked for a tin, he laughed, gave me a tin, him thinking about when my Grandfather found him smoking his pipe. “Right I’ll fill it up and now smoke the lot”. He was as sick as a parrot. Anyway about a month later I asked him for another tin! I’m almost 69 now and still loving snuff…

I just spilled some of my precious Stokers. I managed to salvage about half the spill by sliding a card underneath it. Dropped a tin and it bounced, flipped over and landed right side up. So about half never even fell out thankfully.

To my horror, the silver flash out of the corner of my eye, was a brand new tine of Toques’ Lime Toast, on it’s way to the floor in front of my desk. I felt like Gollum with the thought of a total loss, my precious, my precious snuff. No! I manange to recover most of it, had to pick ‘stuff’ out of it for awhile. Being much more careful now, until the next time…