I'm bismokual

Like you, @Sir Lancerolot , I once looked with dismay at the amount of perfectly good tobacco that ended up as scrap having rolled a batch of cigars. I tried "scrap" filler cigars but (1) still ended up with a lot of scrap (yes, I know it's fungible) and (2) I didn't really like the resulting cigars - didn't burn well and were inconsistent flavorwise.

So I put out the question to the crew on the former site we used to frequent, and they suggested smoking it in a pipe. Tried it, didn't much like it. Cigar tobacco in a pipe just didn't do it for me. So I tried making cavendish out of it, but straight cavendish is pretty blah IMHO, even when flavored. So I started blending, which of course led me in all sorts of directions, and now I make and smoke more pipe tobacco than cigars. Some of its halfway decent IIDSSM.

Fast forward about a year and a half, now I have about 30 pipes (mostly cheapies incl. a number of cobs), and about 40 jars, tins, and pouches of pipe tobacco in addition to my modest selection of cigars.

So that's my story BTW, another aspect that I'm not sure was mentioned above, pipe smoking tends to be way cheaper in terms of dollars/hour of smoking pleasure, but we cancel out the savings by buying copious amounts of the stuff, and also the better briar and meer pipes tend to be a little spendy.