I recently thought I had enough for two years, but it seems I use less per day than I thought. I reckon with what I just ordered today, I’ve got enough to last me four years … at least. I didn’t set out to achieve that … I just get a bit carried away sometimes :-" If you didn’t place any more orders for snuff, just counting what you have stashed away or what’s already on it’s way to you - when would you run out based on your rate of consumption?

assuming I live another twenty years my widow will still have enough to take an occasional pinch in my memory

Around 15 years if my consumption stays the same. It’s so cheap and is’nt taxed as yet. A couple of grand spent over a couple of years ensures years of pleasure and even if you stopped, you would’nt have spent as much as on the fags. Why wouldn’t you stock up? I should add that there are three things in life you can’t have too much of. Money, booty and snuff.

Agree with the above and would have to say at least 10 years, but hey, I do have my eyes on some more… you never know…

5-10 years but I’m not done stockpiling, or even sampling. Man, I hope I can get a job soon so I can start up again.

Like Mouse I probably have more than enough to last my lifetime, but that doesn’t stop me from buying more

Few days. Maybe.

6-8 months if I used it all. My Kailash would be gone in about a month as I tend to order this about 3 months at a time. Then I’d be using all the stuff I’ve got lying around that I use very occasionally.

I have enough for the next 100 years, but that don’t stop me from buying more! 8-} :-? :-?? $-) :-bd *- 8-X :)) :x

Years and years and years…

I’m sure I could last more than a few years But with me always buying more…

Thanks guys. I feel so much better about my shopaholic tendencies now

Thanks guys. I feel so much better about my shopaholic tendencies now

I like to think of it as ‘investment strategy’ and ‘prudent reserve’ rather than shopaholic tendency

Thanks guys. I feel so much better about my shopaholic tendencies now

I like to think of it as ‘investment strategy’ and ‘prudent reserve’ rather than shopaholic tendency

I would to … if I wasn’t the same with buying knives, axes, torches (flashlights), multitools, … :-"

About 1 year. I’ve got some in the freezer, but I’m working on 1 kilo of 6 Photo that I recently bought.

A few month. More than a few if you count the large can of Square scotch that I keep around for emergencies. But that is for hard times where I have run out of everything else and am too broke to buy more.

About two years.

Four or five years.

Im pretty confident I have enough to last the rest of my life…unless of course I lived to be over 100 or something crazy like that. Im still always on the lookout for that next great snuff that needs to be ordered in bulk quantity though.Sitting here doing some Toque quit rite now thinking man I sure could use to have 500 or so grams of this one tucked away.

I like to think of it as ‘investment strategy’ and ‘prudent reserve’ rather than shopaholic tendency

I agree and believe tobacco is the best investment fiat money can buy.

Im pretty confident I have enough to last the rest of my life…unless of course I lived to be over 100 or something crazy like that. …

Not so unexpected; I was talking to an Actuarist & he told me that it is believed that the first 200 year old person (when they die) has already been born.

I guess I better keep stocking up then.

Bumping an old thread… I reckon I now have around 5kg in total. That’s got to be around 5 or 6 years supply at a guess. Quite impressed with myself that my stockpile hasn’t grown too hastily in the couple of years since starting this thread.

I am content with what I have. I have to be. I have no spending money. Just another reason to stock pile snuff. I never dreamed I wouldn’t be able to buy more. I am glad I did when I could.

Mine will last until I’m dead, unless there are amazing medical breakthroughs in the coming years. Will that stop me from buying more? Of course not.
8-}

I just counted and in my short snuffing career I managed to collect for at least 300 days… :"> But there is still so mutch to explore…

I grow and make my own, albeit (with a few exceptions) a more amateurish product than I buy so I guess I couldn’t run out, ever. If you counted just purchased snuff than I guess I only have a few years on hand atm, maybe 5, maybe more. If consumption was always like last night then maybe a year heh.

@basement_shaman I am pretty much in the same position. I have only bought 70g of snuff since the money stopped. Thankfully I already had a good stock of snuff, a few tins of pipe tobacco, and a couple of bottles of vape fluid. I’ll certainly be putting more pipe tobacco aside if I can get the cash flowing again.

@snuffsahoy Ha Ha! I have days like that too

2-3 months. I am trying to order by the Canadian safety strategy and order no more than a few months supply, less than 50g.

My snuff order just came in… so think I’m good for the next decade or so :]

I think I have 3 years in White Elephant alone ( I hope ) I just keep hoarding and using / replenishing hoping the world doesn’t notice our Snuff Affection ( Affliction :-)?

One good thing for me is that Old Mill is a day’s drive ( if the Telegraph ever went down ) Seriously, enjoy it while you can and save some for later.

Started snuffing in Nov’ 2015 and since then I’ve purchased 20 10g tins of Toque, a 50g bag of rustica, a 25g tin of Viking Dark, a 35g tin of 41P WE and maybe ten other small tins of various others - all for peanuts here in the UK and postage so cheap it’s not worth factoring into the cost. I’m maybe halfway through that lot so there’ll still be some left come Christmas, though no doubt I’ll have bought plenty more to add to my stash by then. All this parsimony is great fun!

I don’t have a big stash, but it could last me a decent while. I started snuffing because I usually smoke a pipe and I didn’t want to go outside in the middle of the night in winter to smoke a pipe bowl for 10-30 minutes in the freezing cold. I have 3 tins of various 5g silver dollar snuffs, we garrett sweet snuff 1.15oz, 10gm of poschls gletscher prise and gawith apricot. I’m not going through these too quickly. Some days I do several pinches(more than 10), others none.

A couple years at least. Like four or five. And I haven’t been snuffing even a year yet.

@Tobe how many gram or kilo do you have ? Than I know where I will end up …

@Marielle32 I have no idea how many grams I have, but I have all manner of 5 and 8g tap boxes, 30 and 45g tins, and now a few 50g bags… I just ordered stuff to try it and threw in a potluck or three and reorder what I liked. Now I’ve got more snuff than I really need, but there’s still tons I haven’t tried so I’ll be ordering more!

This is actually difficult to work out. At present, in tins alone, im set for ~1 year only, maybe. Now considering all the other tobacco products i have on hand, consumption rates(and how that would change if i could never again purchase it) i could probably grind up the pipe tobacco and extend the reserves to 1.5 years, so its really not enough comparatively speaking and im alarmed with how underprepared i am!

Almost two years, a little over two years if I add in things I don’t like at the moment. I hit a $ bump, too. It’s put my pipe tobacco hoarding on hold, and I had planned both a MrSnuff order for favorites and samples, and direct order to Toque for a few bulk favorites and maybe some rustica and TUSA W&H. I have a lot of snuff, I guess. I need a lot more snuff, for sure. When in history has the average person bought more tobacco than they would use “fresh?” I could convert a lot of my tobacco to snuff and make my cellar last for decades if the axe falls soon.

I had some downtime, so since I keep a list of what I buy and in what quantities, I decided to add it all up. Turns out that I was right on with my original estimate, though I was WAY off with my personal estimate of the range of snuffs I had in my collection. Since August 13th of last year, I’ve accumulated 109 different snuffs totalling 3,597.9 grams. That’s enough based on my present usage to last me at least five years (though this doesn’t include what I’ve already got coming in the mail or the large order I’m currently putting together).

As of now, 6 months. But I intend to stock more up. 

I’ve got about 6-12 months of snuff on hand. It’s time to do some serious stocking up.

Since my last post on this thread, my stash has increased quite a bit. I’ve added bulk Grand Cairo and SP Scotch, as well as snaffling up 20 cans of discontinued SGs which were on clearance. On top of this, I’ve also picked up a load of miscellaneous snuffs in smaller quantities (one or two tins). Obviously I’ve been keeping my nose fed as well, but this is still a net increase and I think it puts me somewhere between 7 and 8 kilos. I have “changed focus” with my snuffing lately too. I’m not chasing more bulk, nor am I chasing new flavours. I am simply working my way through snuffs that are already open, as I have far too many tins in play at the moment. I’m not banning myself from buying more snuff, but buy less than my consumption rate, and keep new purchases sealed till I reduce the number of tins in play.

I think I’m good for about 4 years. I could be wrong…and I seem to be a shop-o-holic whenever I go to a snuff website. I have an incredible collection of every snuff I like, and an equally large amount of snuff I just collected over the years on eBay…like the 1943 one pound tin of Gallagher’s Irish, which, by the way, is still good, and travelled from Belfast(I think) to Australia during WWII, then sat unopened until I bought it from an old guy down under. Same goes for American Scotches, of which I have almost every conceivable type in old, rusty tins, mostly. Ran off topic there a bit, but still, I can’t see me ever running out of snuff…

Good snuff is so rare here that my friends usually buy all of my order from me a week after I get it.

I usually have to hide a tin for my self.

That being said, the bullets are pretty safe, no one knows what to do with them.

I would say I have a 1-3 month supply very hard to judge.

The rest of my life easily, but I will buy odds & ends here & there, G’Day

I use approximately a gram of snuff a day, so I have roughly three years of snuff on hand.

I know!!! It’s not nearly enough.

That being said I have about ten years worth of my favorite pipe tobacco ( straight VA’s) and another ten years worth of other pipe tobacco’s I like. 

I also have close to eight hundred cigars, and at a rate of one to two cigars a month that is good for thirty three to sixty six years.

I also have thousands and thousands and thousands of rounds in two calibers I use, plus about a thousand each 20ga and 12ga shells.

My wife used to tease me and tell me I was a “hoarder”. I told her the price of ammo and tobacco will NEVER go down, nor will there ever be less legislation.  Only higher costs and less availability.

@moemojo were you on that doomsday preppers show?  

Sorry couldnt resist  

I have around 3kg  or 6  1/4  lb. hoarded,    Includes a good assortment of F&T and the rest mainly in plain and medicated.  I am not into fruit and other food snuffs.  

Need to check myself and use up the numerous opened tins before I start buying anymore different flavours.  I have an awful  collectors compulsion to buy and hoard more, just in case the whole snuff business goes tits up.

I think I have 400 tins, plus 5+ pounds of bulk stuff.  I should be good for about 100 years.

?@ my consumption rate, probably two lifetimes but still manage to acquire more and more.

I have about a kilo. Don’t use more than 10g a day (probably more like 5) so in theory 3-6 months. Having said that, don’t have all the snuff I like at moment so having to exercise self control not to order more.

I think I need to revise my usage down … again :-? I opened a fresh 10g tin of Toque Chocolate four days ago, its the only snuff I have used in those four days, and I have barely made a dent in it. This is a BIG reduction in what I use, and has got to be less than 1/2 a gram a day, and with 3 or 4 months off a year for seasonal intolerance, that’s probably a usage of about 100g to 150g a year. I currently have about 7kg of the stuff I used to get through 1 or 2g per day, and would expect to use a 10g tin in under a week, easily. That would have put my stash at well over a decades worth of stock, and now I am using maybe a quarter of that! I don’t have that many years left. Maybe my intake will pick up again over the winter months, that does happen sometimes, but it seems that I may already own all the snuff I will ever consume. I’m having trouble getting my head around that.

Another old thread bumped and this is an interesting one!

I think I got around 250 grams from my last order that was with 6 Photo. That definitely would last me a year. And after last weekend’s meet with @newbiesnuffer, I think I now have atleast a couple more years worth snuff on me!

I’m 56. As long as I don’t live past 100 I should be ok. Of course I’ll still probably buy more.

The pleasure was all mine to share and make you a hoarder like I @bolbam420 ! From the last update I think my stash will now last at least 3 years or little more than that.

I’d probably max out at a kilo per year, possibly coming in more around 750g. My intake is extremely variable, usually based on how much I’m working from home vs the road. So I believe I have well over a year’s worth. I like the idea of stocking up to insulate a bit from price changes and snuffs becoming unavailable. I also don’t want to leave my dream snuff out there undiscovered!

@ar47 I found my favourite snuff quite early, then bought several kilos of other stuff making sure that there wasn’t anything I preferred more 8-| Not that I mind really, as I did find a heck of a lot of other enjoyable snuffs along the way. Will I buy more snuff? Well, while I have enough snuff for the rest of my life, not enough of that is Berwick Brown, Grand Cairo, Santa Domingo or Mild Lemon … and I’ll probably need to top up on some other Toque flavours I tend to only get in 10g tins at some point too Your rate of consumption is roughly what I was doing when I was shopping like a maniac, buying at around 4x the rate I was using it. To be honest, there’s very little of that 7kg that I regret buying, as it was all at the right price when I got it. It also means that when I take my last pinch, whenever that may be, it will be one of several enjoyable options at my disposal, and not just me having to settle for whatever barely tolerable snuff happens to be left after I’ve used all the good stuff (assuming it doesn’t spoil in storage of course). However, if I was able to turn back the clock and start again with snuffs that are now lost, I’d probably get higher quantities of fewer snuffs, rather than some bulk and the rest being a wild assortment. @Zanaspus You’re about 10 years ahead of me, but I doubt I’ll reach mid 80s which is when I’m currently due to run short. However, even if I did last that long, I somehow expect to have even more snuff then than I do now…

11 days after opening, and still not using any other snuff, that same 10g tin of Toque Chocolate is now about half full. I guess that puts me about 0.5g per day, which surprises me, as while I haven’t been gorging on the stuff, I haven’t exactly neglected it either. I think my usage has actually creeped up a little while I’ve had this tin on the go, so my default setting might be on around a third to a quarter of a gram. I must say, while I’ve had this tin in my stash a fair while, this is my first in of Toque Chocolate, but I don’t think it will be my last

Im sitting on well over 2kg between USA W&H, HDT, #22, and schmaltzlers alone. 5-6 years Im guessing.

I have no idea… let

Lets not find out. Tad to the rescue!

Some of you amaze me with your stockpiling! Maybe I’d do that more if I wasn’t in the UK though. I try to keep only what I really love (or what I think I’ll really love) on hand. I’ve found that in the past I bought stuff but by the time I got to it my tastes had changed and I was less interested! I think what I have at the moment will only last me about a month or two:

Toque Ambrosia 10g

Taxi Red 15g

6 Photo Cheeta (about) 4g

Dholakia White 50g  

@JDU44 Your tastes will tell you what you can’t live without in due time. For example, I really like Dholakia White too. It’s why I’m sitting on a kilo

Agreed! @JDU44 Your tastes may well change again. Sometimes snuffs become seasonal, and you appreciate them more at certain times of year, and they don’t appeal at others. If you get any that don’t sit well with you, put them to one side, and revisit them in a few months. Oh, and I’m in the UK too I didn’t intend to build up several years of stash, I just pounced on bargains when I had more disposable income. I was also snuffing about 4x the amount I’m now using

@Zanaspus- I agree, and I think that my tastes are finally settling down a bit (onto Indian whites). The more I order, the more I found that I was mixing toasts and then whites into my orders. I love the nic-heavy and more naturally-scented snuffs because they’re generally available at good prices, they sit wonderfully in the nose (less need for blowing!) and they can be stored for longer periods in the containers they come in without spoiling (can Dholakia White go bad?). It’s my first time trying DW and I’m really looking forward to it. 

@50ft_trad- Yep, I don’t doubt that come Spring, my nose will be crying out for something else! I tend to go for more fruit-flavoured stuff in Spring (toasts and whites in the Autumn/Winter) but I’m going to wait until my stock is really low and then decide what to go for. In previous years I’ve gone mad on Toque Blueberry Menthol in Spring, but that might not scratch the nic itch by next year

About 3 months worth. Because of our customs law I can’t buy in bulk.

I may have just ordered another 150g of 6 Photo Cheeta…

I tend to go all in and buy tons off snuff at a time. Most of it will rot before I end up using it so I toss it. I order to many different varieties to try, but I only end up using a handful regularly. Gotta experiment I guess. But manufacturers keep coming out with different scents etc etc

Done! If you had have told me four years ago, that it would take me 19 days to get through 10g of snuff, I would have sprained something laughing at you. I’ve just redone the maths … and it’s embarrassing.

@50ft_trad Is that a bit of dusting left in the tin? At this new rate that should cover you for a few hours

Ha! Yeah, I must confess, I didn’t bother scraping out the corners

I think, if you include the order I placed today that I obviously haven’t received yet, probably a year. Related note, I have at least two other orders I want to place which would add at least another year on. Probably more actually. These orders are (combined) around 30 snuffs I’ve never tried. I’m a long way off from being at a point where I could narrow my collection down to four or five favourites that I’d buy in bulk, although to be honest I don’t think that day will ever come. When I smoked cigarettes it was for around 15 years and in that time I changed my brand just three times. I love the variety snuff brings Edit: I’ve just remembered I actually have THREE orders I want to place when the time is right, so that’ll probably bump it up to three years!

@Bizzle I bought my bulk as I went along. When I found one that I was sure I want with me long term, I placed an order for bulk and stash it away in glass jars. Most of my bulk has not been touched! A couple of others were added during the TPD fiasco, when a couple of retailers were clearing out their stocks cheap. Out of general interest, the ones I got in bulk (over 100g containers) are these: 6P Anarkali 6P Super Kailash GH KB Plain SG Celtic Talisman SG London Brown SG Firedance SG SP Scotch Toque Plain Coarse Toque Berwick Brown WoS Brunswick WoS Burgundy WoS Best Dark WoS Tom Buck WoS Grand Cairo Viking Thors Hammer I also have about 500g of a reject blend, where I chucked in anything that didn’t work for me on its own. This turned out to be a really nice snuff. I also built up bulk of SG Yellow Crest and SG Grousemoor by buying several tins of each, which have now made their way into glass jars. These bulk snuffs will remain mostly untouched, until I’ve used up, or discarded into another reject blend, all the remaining tins and tubs which haven’t made it to glass storage. Those assorted tins and tubs will probably see the through another five or more years on their own.

@50ft_trad Where did you get the SG bulk from? I’d happily bulk buy Celtic Talisman but haven’t seen it. I should probably get some of Wilson’s Royal George as well. I’m really paranoid about not storing it correctly though. I bought some Toque Spanish Gem and also Coke in bulk (100g each I think) a few years ago during my first snuff stint and they faded quickly which I’ve always put down to using the wrong jars (old instant coffee jars) and it’s put me off

@Bizzle my SG bulk came from mysmokingshop.com but their stocks have changed since then, so might not still be available. For storage, you need airtight, in a stable cool area, away from sunlight. If scent does fade, indirect rehydrating can sometimes reinvigorate it. I rehydrated some GH Western Glory last night, and the scent has come back at pretty much full volume, however some scents will change/mellow over time and not recover. Nature of the beast. For rehydrating, I seal an opened tin or snuffbox in an airtight tub, alongside damp tissue. For most grinds, an overnight session is enough, but really dried out coarse snuffs can take up to 48 hrs.

@50ft_trad I’ve had a nose around mysmokingshop before but unfortunately they don’t have Celtic Talisman as one of their bulk options. Once I’ve finished my open tin and ploughed through the two I have on the way I’ll drop them an email and see if they can get hold of it. They say the bulk is made to order so presumably they could ask whoever makes SG these days to do one for me

I have about twenty years’ worth, going by present usage - I did a big panic buy of snuff a few years back when the EU came dangerously close to banning all smokeless tobacco. Mostly W&S Irish High Toast #22. 

Like @barredbenny, I bought a lot of snuff when it looked bleakest. I am still pissed about EU putting Molens out of business. I reckon I have a life time supply from now (I’m 47). A photo of part of my stash in an old hatbox the wife gave me. Rest is between my desk and a cabinet https://photos.app.goo.gl/9X6Lp4DusLhtjnce8

@JosephJames Molens got put out of business because of the new mill owners. If I remember correctly it happened before the whole EU thing. It’s somewhere on here the full story. 

I remember when I kept buying three pound drums a month from Wilson’s, their administration person sent me a personal message to thank me for my kind custom - saying I was the best snuff customer they ever had  :)) 

@JosephJames @bob

That sounds right - I think snuff has been untouched by the EU apart from laws around marketing flavours, hence “Rows of Sharrow” rather than “Rose”, etc. It is a true shame about the Kralingse Molens, especially given that they maintained truly traditional production methods. It is historical vandalism, really. We still have the English mills and the German Schnupftabak makers so let’s support them while we can.

@bob @barredbenny I missed the rest of the story on Molens. I thought it was over EU, that they would have to have mixtures lab analyzed. I still have 100 grams of Pompadour and Chocomint along with some smaller tins of other Molens snuffs. I haven’t bought any drums from Wilson’s. At one point I tried and couldn’t get them. I was trying to buy up Grand Cairo because no one knew if it would be a continued flavor or not. Despite having a lifetime supply, I just placed an order last week. It’s a hobby for me as well as a habit.

@barredbenny not to get too political but the tobacco rules the E.U. set up are quite reasonable except for the fact they’re the same rules for snuff and any tobacco compounded by it just not being an interest for most people that could do anything about it. It seems like a case of “Friendly fire” a.k.a. unintended consequences. @JosephJames who knows how Molens would have fared but all things most come to an end and Molens was done before any of this. 

@bob; @JosephJames: You are both right. It was the combination of new owners of the mills and the new EU regulations including the demand for values of pH and concentration of nicotin of all our products. 

Jaap Bes.

I thought the new owner wasn’t going in for snuff no matter what the legal situation was. Oh damn it either way. Well we lost some great snuffs. 

@snuffmiller Hello, Mr. Bes! I didn’t know you were a member here. Last night, I was showing my daughter a YouTube of the mill. You were being interviewed in the video. They showed you taking a pinch. Also watched some that showed the complex machinery working. I have to say that Pompadour is my favorite snuff of all time. That is saying a lot considering the variety of snuffs I have. I make it a treat because I have a 100 gram container that has to last me a lifetime. Also, the plastic snuff boxes were excellent and I don’t know why other manufacturers don’t use a similar box. The are just like some of the antique paper mache boxes of old.

Thanks for all the kind words. Yes on YouTube there are several videos of me and the mills a historical reminder of the historical snuff manufacturing, 

By the way I imported fhe snuff boxes from a Chinese customer of me.

Jaap Bes.

longer than i can even predict. but i do rotate the ones that are still easily available