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Poll Question : Who keeps a cigar journal?
Choice Votes Statistics
Yes I do 4 9 %
No I dont 16 37 %
I have... 7 16 %
I just keep the labels 16 37 %
Total 43 100%

Survey. Who keeps(kept) a Cigar Journal?
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SMOKEYOU Offline
#1 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 11:16 AM EST
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Curiosity is a mfer.
corey sellers Offline
#2 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 11:21 AM EST
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I keep the rings of new ones in a cigar box why I don't know
Jrc02005 Offline
#3 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 11:31 AM EST
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I definitely have a journal where I keep notes on what I paired with them and what I liked about them. If I have multiple of a cigar I try not to do it on the first one. Helps me remember exactly what I like or don't like, and whether I should revisit it. And I do have the band's in the front too.
jespear Offline
#4 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 12:05 PM EST
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I used to keep a cigar journal (of sorts), but it got to be too much trouble.
I figure, if I like a cigar a lot, then I will remember it.
Why I save the bands Think . . . I don't know.
Maybe it's just a reminder to myself as to just how MANY cigars I have smoked over the years.

jes
deadeyedick Offline
#5 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 12:54 PM EST
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Kept a journal when I 1st got into "better" cigars about two decades ago. It helped me define which blends/wrappers I liked. Also saved the bands for years until I had thousands. Don't keep anything now.

DED
SMOKEYOU Offline
#6 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 1:48 PM EST
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I kept a journal for about 5 minutes. Then I smoked it.

Please participate.
Palama Offline
#7 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 2:56 PM EST
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Maybe too much info but since you asked...

I'm highly OCD so do / keep:

Spreadsheet of all the cigars I've bought or received. Has info on the cigar itself (...color, origin, wrapper, binder, filler, shape, strength and size...), where / whom I bought / received it from and price. Also cells for date(s) of when I smoked / gifted them and comments.

Tag each cigar with info which may include vitola, who sent it, when I received it, box code, etc.

Cigar calendar - tape my bands onto the date I smoked a cigar

Recently started another spreadsheet in which I track what cigars I smoked and when. Different than the calendar in that it's keep in alpha order so I can see how many of each brand and vitola I've smoked at a quick glance rather than flipping through each month counting how many R44s / PCRs, etc. I've had this year.

Used to, when I had much less cigars and storage containers, track where every cigar was (...told you I'm highly OCD...).

I pretty much blame my OCDness on my Dad who was a finishing carpenter. He would date every box of nails, screws, etc. and had a first in, first out rule. He knew where everything was, often times he would have me return something to his workshop and tell me the exact location - Center shelf, 4th row, 3rd one from the left - while he was in the house. Of course he was always right.

Okay, that's it.
SMOKEYOU Offline
#8 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 3:03 PM EST
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No, that was perfect. I know there is a few more out there like you but like I was telling the New Noob. Most of us are just hoping we will enjoy the next Cigar and will it be worth remembering?
SMOKEYOU Offline
#9 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 3:15 PM EST
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Do you ever write down when you get a boner from the Cigar? Or do we not dedicate that to cigars?
99cobra2881 Offline
#10 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 3:20 PM EST
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I pretty much can remember most cigars, now don't ask me to do a blind test because I wouldn't know what I was smoking but I can remember certain flavors or flavor markers that I liked on cigars.

I like to take a picture prelight and several during. I also keep the bands if they come off intact.
Jrc02005 Offline
#11 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 3:37 PM EST
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Palama, that is awesome. I do like the spreadsheet idea. Right now I have my cigars seperate by who gave them to me, but that would make it much easier.
tonygraz Offline
#12 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 5:13 PM EST
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I also keep a spreadsheet, but not nearly as much data as Palama. Cigar name-size-quantity and brief impression. As time has gone on I also added month of acquisition and price paid. Thought about location, but haven't started that yet - too many cigars and too many locations right now.
mikey1597 Offline
#13 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 6:09 PM EST
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I just smoke em and enjoy
bsadler Offline
#14 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 6:46 PM EST
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I keep a spread sheet, I found on this sight it has a secondary purpose in keeping track of who bombed me (Palama) and who Need to bomb. Not to mention when smoking a stick it is nice to know who you got it from.
corey sellers Offline
#15 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 6:47 PM EST
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I date them and if someone sent them to me I put there name on it
SMOKEYOU Offline
#16 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 7:45 PM EST
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I label PIBs. Otherwise my coolerador is all 2015 and my large tupperador is 2016. I need another cooler for 2016.
corey sellers Offline
#17 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 7:48 PM EST
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Daimmmmmm I am still working on my first give it hell brother
SMOKEYOU Offline
#18 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 8:05 PM EST
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If I stay on track 2016 cooler will be a treasure chest.
corey sellers Offline
#19 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 8:10 PM EST
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I like pirate flags and I like treasures
SMOKEYOU Offline
#20 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 8:17 PM EST
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If I stay on track I'll have too many cigars now that I think about. Fug it.
corey sellers Offline
#21 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 8:19 PM EST
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I agree forget about them that's what I am doing
bgz Offline
#22 Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2016, 11:08 PM EST
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I save the labels. I don't even mark the dates on them.

I'm pretty bad, I don't even research them any more. When I first started seriously buying/collecting (if you can call what I do that), I would read about them... but now, not so much.

I might read a little about it if I'm about to bid on something I never smoked, but other than that... I just smoke them. If I don't like them, or have problems with them construction-wise, then I just don't buy them any more.

Even worse, it's been a while since I researched stuff people sent me that I haven't smoked (caught crap from Palama because of this, lol).
bs_kwaj Offline
#23 Posted: Mon, Mar 28 2016, 7:29 AM EST
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mikey1597 wrote:
I just smoke em and enjoy


Me too....

Herfing
thurson Offline
#24 Posted: Mon, Mar 28 2016, 8:02 AM EST
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I used to save the bands in a plastic gallon jug. The best part of that was the wonderful aroma I got every time I opened that jug. Several years ago I sent them to someone (don't remember who) who wanted them for a project.

fog
SMOKEYOU Offline
#25 Posted: Mon, Mar 28 2016, 4:22 PM EST
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Thanks for participating!
namadio Offline
#26 Posted: Mon, Mar 28 2016, 4:35 PM EST
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Palama wrote:
Maybe too much info but since you asked...

I'm highly OCD so do / keep:

Spreadsheet of all the cigars I've bought or received. Has info on the cigar itself (...color, origin, wrapper, binder, filler, shape, strength and size...), where / whom I bought / received it from and price. Also cells for date(s) of when I smoked / gifted them and comments.

Tag each cigar with info which may include vitola, who sent it, when I received it, box code, etc.

Cigar calendar - tape my bands onto the date I smoked a cigar

Recently started another spreadsheet in which I track what cigars I smoked and when. Different than the calendar in that it's keep in alpha order so I can see how many of each brand and vitola I've smoked at a quick glance rather than flipping through each month counting how many R44s / PCRs, etc. I've had this year.

Used to, when I had much less cigars and storage containers, track where every cigar was (...told you I'm highly OCD...).

I pretty much blame my OCDness on my Dad who was a finishing carpenter. He would date every box of nails, screws, etc. and had a first in, first out rule. He knew where everything was, often times he would have me return something to his workshop and tell me the exact location - Center shelf, 4th row, 3rd one from the left - while he was in the house. Of course he was always right.

Okay, that's it.


Wow that is pretty damn organized.

My memory is really bad (I'm not even 30 yet... f#$%). And I'm really unorganized. I started a journal but didn't keep up with it. I used to write a + = or - on back of bands but I don't even do that anymore.
SMOKEYOU Offline
#27 Posted: Mon, Mar 28 2016, 4:41 PM EST
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I've got an excellent memory for 3 things. Spelling , numbers and cigars.
moonman Offline
#28 Posted: Mon, Mar 28 2016, 6:19 PM EST
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I'm too busy writing in my diary.
NapalmMan67 Offline
#29 Posted: Mon, Mar 28 2016, 8:29 PM EST
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Used to keep a journal/list 30 some years ago. Would tape the label on the page, and write my thoghts/impressions of each one.

I abandoned it fairly quickly after talking with a few tobacconist peoples, they gave me good intel and pointed me in the right direction (IMO) and now I know what I like.

And any more, I'm getting to old to try every $3 cigar that comes on the market and try to keep notes on them all. I stay with what I know and enjoy, but to each their own.


fog
corey sellers Offline
#30 Posted: Mon, Mar 28 2016, 8:32 PM EST
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Smoke what you like and like what you smoke
corey sellers Offline
#31 Posted: Mon, Mar 28 2016, 8:32 PM EST
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Beer
gae9jang2j Offline
#32 Posted: Mon, Mar 28 2016, 10:25 PM EST
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Palama wrote:
Maybe too much info but since you asked...

I'm highly OCD so do / keep:

Spreadsheet of all the cigars I've bought or received. Has info on the cigar itself (...color, origin, wrapper, binder, filler, shape, strength and size...), where / whom I bought / received it from and price. Also cells for date(s) of when I smoked / gifted them and comments.

Tag each cigar with info which may include vitola, who sent it, when I received it, box code, etc.

Cigar calendar - tape my bands onto the date I smoked a cigar

Recently started another spreadsheet in which I track what cigars I smoked and when. Different than the calendar in that it's keep in alpha order so I can see how many of each brand and vitola I've smoked at a quick glance rather than flipping through each month counting how many R44s / PCRs, etc. I've had this year.

Used to, when I had much less cigars and storage containers, track where every cigar was (...told you I'm highly OCD...).

I pretty much blame my OCDness on my Dad who was a finishing carpenter. He would date every box of nails, screws, etc. and had a first in, first out rule. He knew where everything was, often times he would have me return something to his workshop and tell me the exact location - Center shelf, 4th row, 3rd one from the left - while he was in the house. Of course he was always right.

Okay, that's it.

I'll pay you in ceegars to come over and organize my coolerdors.

We can cuddle afterwards
Palama Offline
#33 Posted: Mon, Mar 28 2016, 11:05 PM EST
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gae9jang2j wrote:
I'll pay you in ceegars to come over and organize my coolerdors.

We can cuddle afterwards


Shoots! We can cuddle before, during and after I organize your coolers.... Gonz
danmdevries Offline
#34 Posted: Tue, Mar 29 2016, 12:09 AM EST
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I did, briefly. Glued bands in a notebook with a note about it. Then I just started writing good/ok/bad on the bands themselves. But, I realized I never referenced them again.

Most of my new-to-me cigars come from trades. I've had the opportunity to sample a huge variety and from there, buy the exact cigar I enjoyed vs trying to buy similar wrappers, origins, makers, etc. I occasionally buy something new, but it's usually an extension of a line i enjoy, or something well regarded on the forums. Can't remember the last totally blind NC purchase I've made
Burner02 Offline
#35 Posted: Tue, Mar 29 2016, 5:00 AM EST
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Not really a journal but I maintain a list of the Cuban's currently on hand. It includes box date, open or sealed and how many left or smoked from a particular box.
SMOKEYOU Offline
#36 Posted: Tue, Mar 29 2016, 12:30 PM EST
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I know there is more than 39 members( users).
SmokeMonkey Offline
#37 Posted: Tue, Mar 29 2016, 1:57 PM EST
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Mine is disturbingly similar to Conan's but slightly less OCD (I don't date mine, other than on an elaborate and multi tabbed spreadsheet. I don't take many tasting notes anymore, although I used to. I have a buy again/personal score system.
madspackler Offline
#38 Posted: Tue, Mar 29 2016, 2:59 PM EST
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danmdevries wrote:
I did, briefly. Glued bands in a notebook with a note about it. Then I just started writing good/ok/bad on the bands themselves. But, I realized I never referenced them again.

Most of my new-to-me cigars come from trades. I've had the opportunity to sample a huge variety and from there, buy the exact cigar I enjoyed vs trying to buy similar wrappers, origins, makers, etc. I occasionally buy something new, but it's usually an extension of a line i enjoy, or something well regarded on the forums. Can't remember the last totally blind NC purchase I've made

+1
Did almost the exact same. I still keep the bands of the cigars I prefer so I can purchase again. Have received a great variety of cigars from trades and bombs from BOTL here. Always nice to try something new, especially if it comes recommended by a good BOTL.
Palama Offline
#39 Posted: Sat, Dec 31 2022, 4:52 PM EST
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gae9jang2j wrote:
I'll pay you in ceegars to come over and organize my coolerdors.

We can cuddle afterwards


I never did cuddle with Gae9 but we did visit a few Korean bars when he was here a few years ago.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#40 Posted: Sat, Dec 31 2022, 5:02 PM EST
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I keep a label scrapbook with leaf stats and a spreadsheet to know what's already put in there. Used to do tasting notes but got to be too much work to enjoy the smoke
Huzza3045 Offline
#41 Posted: Sat, Dec 31 2022, 5:43 PM EST
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Not sure I have a distinguished enough palate to take notes yet. At this point, I just save the bands from my favorites.
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