small humidor & a few cigars!

[Phrankenstein]

Just wondering about others experience. For about 8 years I used a tobacco jar and never had a problem. Never had it stocked with more then 6 to 12 cigars during that whole time. I didn’t smoke many on regular basis, so I simply bought 4 to 6 cigars at a time from my local B&M and put them in the jar. I can remember looking at the jar and if it contained 8 to 12 cigars I thought, ” Boy, I got a lot of cigars!” LOL…The point to this is I never used a real humidor and purchased so few cigars during that first 8 to 10 years of my cigar smoking experience and never had want for a humidor. Not once did I have any problems. Sometimes as the seasons changed the jar would go a little moist, but it never dried out or had a beetle infestation. It was one of those jars that people store pipe tobacco in with a Drymistat in it for humidity. It worked so well and was so simple!

About three months ago my cigar smoking really picked up. I now use a coolidor for boxes & 75 count humidor for singles. My wife now wonders why I require such a stock of cigars. Best I can come up with is “taxes may go up, so I need to stock up”! LOL! And now if I open a fresh box I get a sudden urge to buy a couple more boxes.

Anyway, the subject here is how happy I was with that little jar of cigars for all those years. A simple life! It never bothered me to stop at the B&M and pick up a few sticks and I always tried a wide verity of cigars. It was great to go in the B&M and find some new brand or release. I’d pick up 4 or 5 cigars and be “as happy as a pig in slop”!
I don’t think I’m a cheap ba$tard, I’m sure others have had the same type experience.

I’m a newb here, and this subject has surly been touched on before, so pardon me if that’s the case.

Can any of you relate?

 

[DSturg369]

For several years, all I had was a small, 50ct desktop......

UNTIL........ I discovered the JR board back in 1998. Then it was a 48qt cooler, then a 150qt cooler, then additional, LARGER desktops, and then...........well, you get the idea.

With that single, small humidor I was very content. For my needs at that time, it served me very well.

 

[jmatkins]

About the same here. I started with the 75 count Hummi which I had kept for years. Only about 20-40 in it. Then I started making more money so I tried to collect a few more and saw a primer for the igloo cooler (sorry not yours Steve) and then I have not looked back. I am toast!

 

[dpricenator]

I was content for years, buying a stick whenever I wanted one. once a week from the B&M gas station humi. Until i started smoking more it made sense. Now that I smoke 4-5 cigars a week, to pay the premium from a b&M on a single stick basis, doesn't make sense. After some small intial inve$tments, It is less expen$ive to have a larger stash. Also, I don't really buy anything unless i'm getting a deal on it. Oh yeah...It's FUN to collect/swap/bomb em.:halfgrinw

 

[bballbaby]

I started taking cigars seriously by working a smoke shop and smoking on a daily basis. Then i go this small 50 count humidor with something close to a box of Macanudo churchills and a box of Montesino coronas from some guy my girlfirned at the time worked with. he needed money. I paid 75$ for all of it. That was about 12 years ago. i was content for the longest time just keeping maybe 15 cigars in it and restocking when i got low. i would usually buy 6 o6 7 at a time. If i had 20 cigars at once i felt like a rich man. I kept that up until about the last year or so.

I have since purchased an additional humi that is probably something like a 75 count. My first humi is now used for aging my best of the best cigars that i don't plan on smoking for at least 3 years. it currently is stuffed with 35 cigars of about 12 different brands. The other holds all the lesser quality cigars that i won't mind smoking if i have to. I've got maybe 40 in it now. I need another humi or maybe just one big one.


Currently i can't seem to get enough cigars. Over the past 3-4 weeks i'm buying maybe 15 sticks a week and only smoking one or two a week. My collection is growing fast. I like that. ALthough come warmer weather i'l lbe smoking a lot more, probably like 5 a week.

My 5 year plan includes building a new house with a bar/gameroom that will be my smoking room. I plan to include a walk in humi that will be big enought ot hold everything i can get my hands on. Until then i'll probably try to be content with my desktops.

 

[RigilKent]

when i started out i was smoking a cigar from time to time from a gas station humi were i worked. then found a small 40 ct humi online that came with cutter, ashtray, hygro, for real cheap. i picked that up with about ten cigars. stayed like that till about two months ago upon joining this board. now i have about 200 cigars. just say that they get better with age so you have to save them.

 

[Rich K]

I still don't have a huge stockpile of sticks lying around--yet. I just got a bigger humi, so some boxes will be coming my way soon. Time to start hiding the credit card bills? haha

 

[TexaSmoke]

I started with a 50-100 count humidor and then bought my cabinet. I did this mainly becasue I look at cigars like I do wine. They are a collection and though I like the way they smoke now I know many will be even better with age. I also like to share them with guest who come over for dinner or for a drink. Therefore I need multiples of the same stick. Plus I just like cigars and it is a vice I'm willing to spend money on.

 

[thecatmac]

I still don't have a huge stockpile of sticks lying around--yet. I just got a bigger humi, so some boxes will be coming my way soon. Time to start hiding the credit card bills? haha

Glad I'm not the only one!

 

[kyleb]

Yes, ditto what has been said already. I started out the exact same.. a few sticks here and there.. now its a few boxes every week.

 

[Halon]

Cigars are Pokemon for old farts. Gotta catch 'em all to keep up with your friends.


TYLER

 

[gbpacker66]

I started with a small tupperdor which held about 10-25 cigars. As the years passed I went to a 50ct, now at a larger desktop which can hold about 100-150. Niw I am looking for something a little bigger. I do keep my CC's in my 50ct with some others that I wish to save (out of site, out of mind theory, but does not always work.).

 

[jwintosh]

i'm screwed! i ned a cabinet.

 

[CWS]

The problem is those darn boxes. Your buy a box and fill your humi and think, this is cool. Then another box catches your eye. Now the humi is almost full and they are mixed and...you know the story. I love being able to open a box and choose knowing that I have many more for the future. More cooledors or like Jeff, gotta have an armiore humi.

 

[Mickeyray5]

I would pick up a stick or two every couple of weeks. Kept saying I needed a humidor but never bought one. My wife got me 150 count for Christmas about 2 years ago. I've still got that one as well as a 100 count. 75 count, 40 count and a cheap little 20 I keep at the office. I am collecting almost as many humi's as cigars!

 

[Ratbert]

I can relate Phrankenstein...I started with just a little desktop and would keep a dozen or so on hand, then just go to the B&M when I got low. I would probably smoke one a week.

Now I have more than I could probably smoke in my lifetime, but I don't think I'm any happier. It's nice to have a big collection to choose from, and I do enjoy playing with my cigar toys. But, if my house were to burn down today and I lost all my cigars, would I replace them...probably not. I think I'd go back to the simpler days of having a single humidor and just keep it filled. I'm probably in the minority here, though.

Collecting cigars is one of the most obsessive behaviors I've ever indulged in, and it's more than just a little scary sometimes.

 

[CigarAnon]

I don't beleive I have this many cigars :bigeyes: